Rare, Animation, Hubley, Academy Award, Short; DVD - Ex Used condition
The first volume of a three-disc survey of the films of the innovative Hubley Studio offers two of their best known shorts: the Academy Award-winning "Moonbird" (1959) and the Oscar-nominated "Windy Day" (1967). In these shorts, independent animators John and Faith Hubley explored new ways of presenting a child's world through film. They recorded their children's voices as they spun out fantasies to create a giggling, rambling soundtrack. In "Moonbird," two brothers prowl their backyard by night, seeking to capture the shy moonbird. Two sisters spend an summer afternoon at the seashore, playing games and speculating about what the future may hold for them in "Windy Day." The upbeat "People, People, People" (1975) examines the history of human habitation in North America, from 17,760 B.C. to A.D. 1976. Benny Carter's genially propulsive score helps the filmmakers present even unpleasant aspects of history with imagination and good humor. In "Enter Life" (1981), carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen atoms assemble to form the molecules essential to all life in a series of chemical reactions that suggest a microcosmic dance. "Amazonia" (1989) draws on indigenous myths to present a plea to save the rapidly vanishing Brazilian rain forest. --Charles Solomon
Rare, Animated, Independent, Short Film, Academy Award; DVD and Booklet - Ex Used condition
Don Hertzfeldt is an American independent filmmaker whose animated films have screened around the world, receiving over 200 awards. VOLUME 1 collects the first ten years of his Academy-Award nominated work, from 1995 to 2005. The short films include: AH, L'AMOUR, GENRE, LILY AND JIM, BILLY'S BALLOON, REJECTED, and THE MEANING OF LIFE. The wealth of Special Features on the DVD include: WATCHING GRASS GROW: ANIMATING "THE MEANING OF LIFE", THE ANIMATION SHOW TRILOGY CARTOONS ("WELCOME TO THE SHOW", "INTERMISSION IN THE THIRD DIMENSION", "THE END OF THE SHOW"), THE BITTER FILMS ARCHIVES: AN EXHAUSTIVE 140+ PAGE GALLERY OF NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN MATERIALS AND VIDEO CLIPS (INCLUDING RARE FOOTAGE FROM DON'S EARLIEST CARTOONS, ORIGINAL PENCIL TEST FOOTAGE, DELETED SEQUENCES, AND MORE), "THE MEANING OF LIFE" SPECIAL EFFECTS FEATURETTE, "LILY AND JIM" DELETED DIALOGUES, "REJECTED" TRIVIA CAPTIONS, "REJECTED" AUDIO COMMENTARY, "LILY AND JIM" AUDIO COMMENTARY, A 16 PAGE RETROSPECTIVE BOOKLET, and a lot more!
Experimental, Plunderphonics, Noise, Glitch, Sampling, Electronic, TV Pow, DIY, Staalplaat; DVD - Ex Used condition
Anchortronic is a Time's Up audio project in cooperation with the music label Staalplaat. It is dedicated to experimental electronic music, in particular the process oriented techniques which in their attitude and technique imply and even demand a radical DIY aesthetic. Sampling, plunderphonics, clicks and cuts, generative sound from self-written applications - keywords and techniques that paraphrase the expressions of a global development, yet in no way set boundaries or categorise. They have in common an attitude that requires the adjective "punk" - without the prefix "cyber" or the postfix "is (not) dead." They are prepared to experiment, to take on ideas unconditionally and as such and to work towards their implementation in spite of, or even because of the fact that in the midst of the process, a new idea can radically alter the course of development, even turn it around. This attitude acts as a negation or as a (distorted) overdrive of established mainstream culture. Individual research and experiments are primal; results appear secondary. Product - often selfburnt CDRs - is distributed through independent or self created labels - mainly to document a momentary state or to include others in the process. The network(s) are close despite their globality, the trade or exchange is real. Exchange is one of Time's Up's core activities. The networking with people of similar interests, effects ongoing or planned wors, leads to concrete collaborations - overlaps experienced as enrichness.
Banned, Ukraine, Transgressive, Troma, Rare, Sleaze; DVD Special Edition - Ex Used condition
FILTHY! REPULSIVE! BANNED! Discovered in the lower depths of the Ukrainian black market, Troma proudly presents the infamous works of Soviet sleaze-maestro, Yakov Levi.With casts composed of real-life criminals, prostitutes, and narcotic addicts, this depraved anthology chronicles the mislead adventures of degenerate whores, possessed sadomasochists, and murderous undergarments. Available for the first time in America, Shameless, Tasteless: Trash Cinema from the Soviet Underground takes transgressive art to a new level of moral corruption.
Violent, Banned, Shockumentary, Sport, Real Footage, Documentary, Fights; DVD - Ex Used condition
Soccer truly is the world's game, and the dark side of that mania is the soccer hooligan. Many matches around the world are marred by violence between groups of (usually drunken) ruffians who engage in violent altercations with whoever crosses their paths. Hooligans & Thugs - Soccer's Most Violent Fan Fights lives up to its title containing little more than footage of some disastrous soccer hooligan incidents. Banned in the UK. Narrated by (Sex Pistols) Steve Jones.
Horror, Gore, SOV, Independent, Bloodthirsty, Gruesome; DVD - New
Doug Ulrich made some amazing shot on video movies back in the day, like “Darkest Soul” and “Scary Tales” and this one, “Snuff Kill”. Doug is an avid horror fan and Ralis is the lead singer of a theatrical rock band. Together they set out to make their own “Horror Movie”. But during the filming of a murder scene, the special effects turn out to be all too real and Doug discovers the sinister side of his partner Rallis and his own fascination with real like horrors.
Grindcore, Documentary, Punk, Metal, Underground, Independent; DVD - New
Slave To The Grind is the very first documentary on Grindcore. It tackles its complex history, charting its rise from both punk and metal in the 80s. It was shot over 4 years in 9 countries on 4 continents. It was strictly DIY, with zero funding from studios or any corporate funding.
DVD; Mixtape, Gore, Splatter, Bizarre, Weird, Strange, Porn, Horror, Comedy; DVD Mixtape - New
HOLY SHIT! HERE IT IS! 4 YEARS IN THE MAKING!
Suffer through hours of horrible video atrocities without getting bored or having to deal with irreparable mental damage! The guys at Whore Church have combed through the worst stuff they could find, thoroughly blended and regurgitated it back out as The Whore Church Vol. 1. It contains more madness, more insanity and more fart jokes than you can shake your dick at! It's also got a shit load of bonus features on this badboy! Throw this sucker on at a party to kick it up a notch.
SUPER DUPER REGION FREE!
18+ only!
Skateboard, Cult, VHS, 90's, Classic, Skate, Culture; VHS Tapes - we have a bunch of different copies for sale in good used condition - email for list.....
411 was the equivalent of the internet for three quarters of the ’90s. That’s a big deal. Who didn’t like how random the 60/40 commercials were, or fast forward some spot check on a clunky park in Germany, or losing it anytime Sal Barbier addressed us via “The Grapevine”? For real, when he announced that Goodtimes Intelligence Agency was giving away a trip to Hawaii, he was genuinely puzzled–you can’t script that. By the way, who won that trip and what did it entail? Did you get to hang out with Carl Carpenter?
Having a steady stream of video showing up at your local shop made you feel connected and let more scenes shine, instead of exclusively seeing more footage of “some guy with a backwards fitted” somewhere in California. Being able to see what was going on in Love, Pulaski, or New York, in what felt like realtime completely changed the world’s view of the East Coast, inspiring people from everywhere to check out the spots. Ultimately that was a good look for everyone.
Louis Malle, Rare, Controversial, War, Classic, Powerful, Taboo; DVD - Ex Used condition
Having been rejected by the Resistance for being too young, teenager Lucien Lacombe joins the Gestapo in a show of defiance. But upon falling for the daughter of a Jewish tailor, Lucien begins to view his actions in a very different light. Louis Malle was never a director to worry about public opinion, having ruffled feathers with his intellectual study of incest in 1971s, Soufflé au coeur, Le, he practically ostracised himself with this simmering collaboration piece. Tho it has to be said that the sheer weight of the fall out in his home country would surely have taken him by surprise, however, what remains to this day is a highly accomplished character piece that engrosses from the get go. It's now something of common knowledge that Malle drew from his own upbringing by way of motivation in some of his work, how much of this particular story affected him is not entirely clear, but what isn't in doubt is that the directors time during the occupation of France lends this piece an aura of honesty, it feels personal, and the result is very special indeed. Each individual viewer can interpret the sequence of events as they may, but just maybe Lacombe Lucien is a simple portrayal of a missed opportunity, and this missed opportunity coupled with naivety bred the wickedness that is viewed in the film. The theme of betrayal hangs heavy in the story, and the mere fact that Malle refused to take sides with his outlaying of the story, only furthers the sense of intrigue that covers the viewer come the stunning ending, an ending that creeps up on you and begs you for another thought process.
Pinku, Violent, Erotic, Porn, Japanese, Pink, Taboo, French; DVD - Ex Used condition
Nami works in a department store. She is asked to stand in for a friend in a magazine photo-shoot, which turns out to be for an S&M magazine called "Red Porno". When the photos are published, she is sacked and her lover abandons her. Muraki, who is an unpopular otaku loner, tries to meet up with Nami but is shot by a woman who takes him for a rapist and dies. Fourth in the series and full of stylish sequences and almost non stop full bloodied (almost hardcore) SM orientated sex. Ikeda's film does not fit the basic rape, revenge/consequence pattern of the others and initially confuses because it does not conform to our expectations. Especially difficult for western audiences is the mixing of, very strong sexual needs of women, rape and romance. We get particularly frank, wet and slurping scenes of female masturbation, images/memories/fantasies of rape and the gradual development of a most unlikely romantic liaison. The film is at times so good to look at that the slight and occasional lapses are noticeable. One is thrown for instance when Nami runs from her department store after hearing that she is to be sacked for appearing in a porno mag. The music and the way she is shot leads one to suspect that she has had enough and will seek to avenge herself. This French release DVD is Japanese with French subtitles only unfortunately....
Robin Fox, Experimental, Electronic, Synaesthesia, Rare, Digital, Australia, Melbourne; DVD - Ex Used condition
"Digital culture is obsessed with synaesthesia, especially sound/image convergence. From club ‘visuals’ to automatic ‘visualiser’ plugins for mp3 applications, there’s an ideal of sensory fusion at work which draws on cyber/psychedelic rave culture, and utopian new media discourse.
Ideals aside, digital media forms do create new potential for varieties of ‘machine’ synaesthesia–automatic mappings between sound and image. Visualiser plugins offer specific and more-or-less arbitrary mappings of image to sound. While they can’t (promise to) induce a synaesthetic experience, they do offer a machine synaesthesia that might challenge, reorder, or at least reflect on, our own audiovisual perception. Yet most synaesthesia machines are little more than bolted-on nozzles that turn all your favourite tunes into generic visual sludge.
By contrast Robin Fox’s Backscatter disc presents a highly specific and refined synaesthesia machine. He has assembled a simple audiovisual synthesizer using simple digitally synthesised audio and an old analog oscilloscope. The oscilloscope is in ‘polar’ mode, so instead of scanning left to right, displaying the conventional ‘trace’ of the waveform, the trace orbits the screen. Waveforms create woven circles, loops, twisting spirals, filigreed knots.
Response is instantaneous, so the screen jumps and twitches in sync with Fox’s audio signature skitters and blips. The sound-vision mapping is supple, the images beautiful and sometimes surprising. The pieces feel quite controlled, even composed, the way they seem to literally reveal new twists and tricks. Overall, the results are staggering."
Mitchell Whitelaw
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