Part 1 (7.30pm)

Retour a la Raison
Man Ray
France, 2 mins, si, b/w, 16mm, 1923
Combining rayograph images similar to x-rays and using salt and pepper to spice the celluloid, Man Ray's Retour a la Raison is a Dadaist treat for Surrealists.

Anemic Cinema
Marcel Duchamp and Rose Delavy
France, 6 mins, si, b/w, 16mm, 1926
Duchamp and Delavy's film is a series of rotating, spiral-like images, intercut with spinning discs of words strung together in elaborate, anagrammatical puns.

The Colour Box
Len Lye UK, 4 mins, sound, colour, 16mm, 1935
Pioneer animator Len Lye's ingenious hand-painted film The Colour Box was conceived as an advertisement for the British Post Office and is now a classic of the avant-garde. A must see for animation buffs.

At Land
Maya Deren
USA, 15 mins, si, B/W, 16mm, 1944
Maya Deren's seminal underground film work has inspired experimental and feminist filmmaker's to pursue a filmmaking practice which explores transcendental states of consciousness and places women as the central protagonists. At Land is a dream film that transcends the 'mythological voyage' of a woman (played by Deren) through a constantly changing landscape.

Dog Star Man
Stan Brakhage
USA, 25 mins, si, colour, 16mm, 1961
Stan Brakhage draws on his films, scratches and punctures them, repeats shots and turns them upside down. Dog Star Man ensures Brakhage's reputation as visionary of experimental cinema.

Kustom Kar Kommandos
Kenneth Anger
USA , 4 mins, sound, colour, 16mm, 1965
Kustom Kar Kommandos is testament to Anger's lust for boys, leather and dream buggies.

Hold Me While I'm Naked
George Kuchar USA, 15 mins, sound, colour, 16mm, 1966
An early Kuchar film using his familiar mix of lurid melodrama, personal reflections and overblown, sad music. A powerful pastiche, Hold Me While I'm Naked is reportedly a major influence on the career of John Waters.

Plumb Line
Carole Schneeman
USA, 15 mins, sound, colour, 16mm, 1968 -1972
Schneeman is a powerful exponent of performance and body art and her film, Plumb Line is a diary of the daily movements of a couple. Made from scrap footage, shot on 8mm and printed on 16mm film, Plumb Line not only plays with the materialism of film but explores the dissolution of the couple's relationship and the film itself as it is set on fire.