I've long been a fan of artistic films that you would never (hardly ever) find at your local artfilm house, let alone a local cineplex. Rather, the films I've been collecting over the years are the kinds that you might have better luck finding exhibited at an art gallery somewhere off the beaten path. Occasionally, you'd find em in a bigger exhibit, perhaps, at a museum of modern art, or some such.. but I always find them to be intriguing and compelling.. really testing the limits of the film medium (and audience attention) and exploring the idea of film, itself, as an art form..

Here -- in no particular order-- are a few names of artists and films which have, for better or worse, found their way into my collection (one of these days, I hope to screen them -- perhaps projected on a warehouse wall, where people can stare in quixotic wonder..)


Films (Artists)
Decasia (Bill Morrison)
Surfacing the Thames (David Rimmer)
Zoetrope (Charlie Deaux)
Dance of Darkness (Japanese Butoh - Edin Velez)
Bodysong (Simon Pummell)
Slomo Video (multiple filmmakers: greylodge.org/gpc/wp-mobile.php )
The Last Clean Shirt (Leslie Alfred)
Wavelength (Michael Snow)


I've also accumulated some assorted works by Stan Brakhage, Bill Viola, Paul McCarthy, Bruce Nauman, Terry Fox, Walerian Borowczyk, Mauricio Kagal, George Landow, Owen Land, and Jack Goldstein, and some of the early films by David Lynch, Hal Hartley, Stanley Kubrick, & Maya Deren...

There are others, but too many to list here... Does anyone have any interest in this type of thing, in terms of maybe swapping suggestions as to what can be done with this kind of obsessive obscure film collecting behavior I seem to have contracted.. perhaps a support group or a screening of some kind?