ZINE + CINEMA = ZINEMA
Films made by goobers like you!
Directed by Bill Brown. A week or so after 9/11, Caveh Zahedi and I began to exchange video letters. It was Caveh’s idea. We mailed a miniDV tape back and forth to each other. Months would pass between replies. We kept at it for several years. I can’t remember why we stopped.
Directed by Bill Brown. Commissioned by Ben Russell for 2016 Moogfest screening series, “Future Projections: Memories of the Space Age.” Video is eponymously titled for the J.G. Ballard short story.
Directed by Bill Brown
Directed by Bill Brown. Perhaps best known for his Spiral Jetty, sculptor Robert Smithson’s interest in landscape and land use was prophetic. In 1973, Texas oil millionaire Stanley Marsh 3 commissioned Smithson to create an earthwork on Marsh’s cattle ranch north of Amarillo, called ‘Amarillo Ramp’.
Directed by Bill Brown. In this impressionistic documentary film, Sabine Gruffat and Bill Brown travel across Spain to explore responses to the housing crisis of the early 2000s. The filmmakers visit families squatting in failed condo developments; intentional communities of mountain cave dwellers; protest campsites in front of bank branches; and empty apartment buildings transformed into experiments in ‘utopian’ living.
Directed by Bill Brown. An essay film about a river and the limits of knowing it. Using Mark Twain’s “Life On The Mississippi” as a road map, Brown travels along the Mississippi River from Memphis, Tennessee to New Orleans and considers ways that river pilots, paddlers, historical re-enactors, and civil engineers attempt to know the river through modeling, measurement, and simulation.
Directed by Bill Brown. A short historical-landscape film
Directed by Bill Brown. Rooted in the true sense of “independent” in voice and image, The Other Side is a personal essay documentary imbued with magical landscapes and searing observations softly spoken during the director’s cinematic trek along the United States-Mexican border.
Directed by Bill Brown. A spaceman escapes his home world because it’d become a big drag. On Uranus, he finds that life is strange and wonderful.
Directed by Bill Brown. In the decade since the events of 9/11/2001, the United States has been engaged in a national act of memorial making. Some of these 9/11 memorials are contested sites, where conflicting visions and voices clash. But most are quiet and deeply personal. This short non-fiction film examines some of these memorials, and the reasons why seven people made the unlikely decision to build them.
Directed by Bill Brown. A landscape film concerning location (Montréal, St. John’s, Regina, and Vancouver), narration, history, and the personal role of the director in the formation of audiovisual art.
Directed by Bill Brown. I lived around the corner from the Henry Horner Homes. I once read an article about the place in the New York Times. The title of the article was “What It’s Like To Live In Hell.” By the time I moved to Chicago, the projects were empty. The city began to knock down the buildings, one by one, till there was only one building left. It stood there for years. Then the city knocked it down, too.
Directed by Bill Brown. HUB CITY is a short about Lubbock, Texas, the home of Buddy Holly. It is also about trajectories of death and small towns in general.
Directed by Bill Brown. As its nuclear missile silos get blown-up, North Dakota scratches its head and wonders what’s next.
Directed by Bill Brown. "Bill Brown's Roswell...takes a fanciful...look at the supposed crash of a flying saucer near Roswell, New Mexico in 1947, an 'event' UFO types cite to this day as evidence of a massive government cover-up. Brown...seems to take the event seriously. He wonders what the craft was doing in Roswell of all places, speculating that it was piloted by a 'star boy...joyriding through the cosmos' who 'got lost and lost control." - Fred Camper, Chicago Reader
DVD release only. Copies floating through ABQ. A film by Elena Sakuda. Mango, a cute little Jack Russel...or is she?
Directed by Lily Greene. In 2010 Santa Fe art collector, art dealer and local cowboy Forrest Fenn was diagnosed with cancer. In order to leave his legacy and in an effort to get people out in nature, he hid a treasure worth 2 million dollars somewhere in the Rocky Mountains. He wrote a complex poem with clues to the treasure and published it in a memoir called “The Thrill of the Chase”, which prompted thousands of people around the nation to explore the mountains in search of treasure.
Directed by Lily Greene. A short train ride in a foreign country
Directed by Lily Greene. An intimate exploration of old and new memories of a neighborhood and childhood in avant doc form. Complied of footage shot 20 years ago and two years ago, using the family camcorder.
Directed by Lily Greene. An extra terrestrial journey though dark and light- a poetic exploration of the unknown and the beautifully mundane
Organized by Scotty Leonard. 60 minutes. 60 shorts. FLOWER HOUR is a psychedelic extravaganza!
The Let's Talk Figures boys go on a road trip they may or may not come back from. It's the Disaster Artist of rock documentaries.
LIFE is a self portrait created by Paul Thompson. He used whatever camera happened to be around to add 15 seconds every day of 2021. Paul is an artist from Albuquerque who likes to film, edit, draw, and animate his ideas. The movie is a compilation of everyday life and wasn't originally intended to be shown outside of close friends and family.
Made by Evelyn Witterholt. Evelyn explains her travels to da big apl through this audio/visual memoir.
Another zinema movie made in the wild! This one was created by the geniuses at The Trash Dimension and released to Anarchy Tube. Checkit!
The Kino Kowboy is here to teach you how to be a true patrician... all for the low price of $9.99. Once he has enough of your money he plans to finally make his magnum opus film; Adventures Of A Posthuman Through Time And Space. WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY Adrian Beqiri
A film by Scotty Leonard. A experimental narrative, where the filmmaker documents 15 seconds of his day for an entire year.
A mysterious black cube infiltrates their lives when Adrian and Sumner decide to go dimension jumping in this sequel to Moon Men.
A miniseries of underground cinema!
Directed by Adrian Beqiri Adriano's first feature length picture chronicles the inception and cultural advancement of The Moon Men
Andy's Chair Zine was a zine from 1991-1995. The first three issues were in print form, but the fourth was perhaps the first example of Zine Filmmaking ever released. You can find the reupload on YouTube here.
Internet Release April 1st 2104 A film by Elena Sakuda A film about an identity that the filmmaker can't claim. Not Japanese, but not quite American either.
Only available on DVD. Scotty Leonard's second feature shot on a $2 camcorder he bought at a flea market. Can he avoid the void? Featuring animation, lofi beats, and experimental video, this movie is a lullaby created specifically to help you drift to sleep.
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