tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE Features
(from late 1974e.v. to october 2006e.v.)
(in order of most recent to oldest)
It's my impression that a "feature" is usually defined as a movie 70 minutes or longer. I've decided to designate any movie of mine 60 minutes or longer a "feature" & anything under 60 minutes a "short". Why? Maybe it's just because I don't know what term is used to describe 'mid-length' movies. In literature we have novellas in between short stories & novels but what's the movie equivalent? Is a 65 minute film a "long short"? Or a "long shot"? Is an 18 second movie a "short short"? Using this simple length criteria I've listed 50 features below.
HOWEVER, it's not that simple. Many of the movies listed have versions both an hour or longer & shorter versions. Usually, the shorter versions are the ones I consider to be best & I wouldn't even screen the longer versions (except to researchers). But, already, there's at least one exception: "Harps & Angles" - the shorter version is meant to be mainly used in 'performance' & the longer version is the one I would present as the documentary (or "quasi-documentary" as I often prefer). Then there are the features that are not meant to be presented as something to be witnessed alone. They're meant to be used in mixes ("concrete mixes" as I call them) as "usical material" or, more conventionally, "wallpaper". Even though the usical material listed here meets the length criteria I would still disqualify them because their full appreciation doesn't require their being witnessed in their entirety - excerpting from them in units less than an hour would be satisfactory. An even more obvious example of something further to be rejected from the list below are the loops & indefinite duration pieces. While these can certainly play for more than an hour this would just be a formal exercise of little or no value to me.
SO, I'll whittle the list down:
I'll remove 188. "Volunteers Collective", 155. "Official Tour/Ture - '92", 44. "The 8th International Neoist Apartment Festival", 34. "Apt 7", 13. "81 Apt" as having better short versions. I'll remove 229. "Automatic Pilot", 202. a. "Space Ballet" (Usical Material Version in 24 parts), 160. "Color Bars", 171. "El Departamento de Quizás Presenta: una Demostración de Soluciones de Rompecabezas", 152. "F(acinorous)R(efulgent)E(squamate)D(onnered) S.(A.P.F.U. = Surpassing All Previous Fuck-Ups) L(ongiloquent)I(mprolificating)S(kookum)B(ruxomaniacal)E(pigamic)R(isorial)G(awsie)E(rose)R(hapsodomaniacal)", 147. "Concrete Mixing Usical Material Vaudeo #2", 146. "Concrete Mixing Usical Material Vaudeo #1", 139. "Teaser", 136. "Wallpaper Video", 133. "One Word per Person Party", & 37. "Subtitles (analysis projector transfer of 16mm to 1/2" VHS cassette version)" {version 1} as "usical material". I'll remove 28. "Exquisite Corpse", 14. "Silent Speed", 4. "Ghost* [..]", & 3. "Mike Film" as loops or indefinite duration pieces in which the concept of "feature" is inappropriate. That leaves 26 features.
But why stop there? Some of the features are edits sequencing shorts together with the occasional segue element. When these can be experienced satisfactorily in sections because they are more anthologies than they are continuous pieces then they too can be eliminated (although we're getting on shakier ground here with something like 177. "FILMSTRIPS" which is highly edited to work together as a single piece). An EXCEPTION would be 214. "Hibonsa o osoleluna! "Heibon" ga omae o Dame m sulumaeni" ("Kill Normality Before It Kills You") which I think is best experienced as a feature (even though the shorts within it are often presented separately). This criteria pulls out 259. "IMP ACTIVISM 7", 246. "IMP ACTIVISM #6", 211. "IMP ACTIVISM #2", 200. "IMP ACTIVISM #1", 177. "FILMSTRIPS", 157. "2 Yrs of "Official" History" / ""Official" Thistory", & 68. "An Incomplete History of APT Festivals". That reduces the features total to 22!
What the fuck! Let's get even more severe, shall we? (Just who am I addressing, anyway?) Let's cut out the features that are as long as they are because they're documentaries of events that try to be inclusive even though their inclusiveness is unlikely to be of any interest to anyone other than the participants. In other words, features that I have no intention of screening. An exception here (even though it could be objected to as being just as tediously 'comprehensive' as everything I'm cutting otherwise) is 213. "Circumsubstantial Playing & Blindfolded Tourism" - maybe because I think I made a pretty good edit. Whacked out are 117. "I Plagiarized This Title From Outer Space Junk Mail", 67. "Ultimatum II", 58. "Not So Private Life (1st edit)", 38. "t he Telectropheremoanin'quinquennial", 33. "14BX Sub-Par/Con", & 12. "Attempt to Undermine Reality Maintenance Traps". That makes a new total of 17 features - but, by now, the standards are getting pretty dodgy.
DODGY or not, I will now eliminate further! 63. "Easter Island Bunny Edit" was meant to be used in 'performance' (& the variations can be rejected by the previous paragraph's 'rules'). That leaves:
16 SELECTED FEATURES
which are highlighted in the list below in large font size.
{tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE can be contacted @ <anon@fyi.net>}
265. "Backwards Masking in Rocks"
- tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- using untouched & rewritten texts from:
Ray Palmer & Richard Shaver's "The Secret World - Volumne One"
Jacob Aranza's "Backward Masking Unmasked - Backward Satanic Messages of Rock and Roll Exposed"
Suetonius' "The Twelve Caesers"
Marlen Haushofer's "The Wall"
- filching footage from:
Jean-Luc Godard & The Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil"
Flash Gordon episodes
The Compleat Beatles
Rob Reiner's "This is Spinal Tap"
- using music from:
Jefferson Airplane's "Crown of Creation"
Steppenwolf's "The Pusher"
Canned Heat's "Amphetamine Annie"
Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention's "Help, I'm a Rock"
The Official, March 13th, 1993E.V., Medium-Sized Band Who Have Just Put Out Their First Record & Who Will Be Selling Them At The 14 Karat Cabaret For A Fabulously Reasonable Price As Well As At Normal's Music Store At 429 E. 31st St. & Who Are More Wonderful, Original & Imaginative Than Even The Most Overblown Hyperbole Could Possibly Even Begin To Praise & Who Have A Penchant For Long Very-Hard-To-Remember Band Names That Even THEY Find Hard To Remember But How Else Can They Make Laure Drogoul, Baby MaDenney, & The Ever-Lovin' Pam Purdy Laugh Otherwise? - &, Besides, This Is Probably Their Last Show So Why Not Indulge Them A Little, Eh? Incredible Rapidly Shrinking Big Band Orchestra OOMPH!'s "'Patamorphic Institute Spiel"
John Lennon & Yoko Ono's "Revolution 9"
Little Fyodor's "Revolution 9"
- using images from:
Richard Shaver's rock-book paintings & rock photographs
Hustler magazine
Jerome Wycoff's "Rock, Time, and Landforms"
Crescent Books' "Crystals - Symmetry in the Mineral Kingdom"
Experimental Musical Instruments magazine article re the Till Family Rock Band
- starring:
tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE as the rebellious filmmaker
- in the bible scene:
Babs Batera, Adam Grossi, Drew Pavelchak, Ray Herrera, Bill Ritter, Shaun Slifer,
G.G.Allin doll as King Saul
Scott Gibson as the Geologist
- additional camerawork during the "Dance Party Without Dance Music" scenes:
Kelly Stiles & Morgan Cahn
- dancing during the "Dance Party Without Dance Music" scenes: Morgan Cahn
- voice for the Richard Shaver / Ray Palmer texts: Kelly Stiles
- for the Punk Rock scene: Keira - stunt mouth - etta cetera - voice-over
- ALL ELSE (& that's quite alot): tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- mini-DV -> DVD/1/2" VHS cassette
- 1:04:00
- fall, 2006 -> december 12, 2007
264. "START" (tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE edit)
- made as a collaborative project by approximately the same group of people as 233. "Dead & Breakfast" & 260. "Discontinuous Universe"
- as w/ its predeccessors, this project began when Kelly Stiles (unfortunately w/o April Gilmore this time) came to visit Pittsburgh. Kelly & Morgan & tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE thought of a rough outline for a plot wch the whole Sylli G(roup) then fleshed out - often improvisationally while shooting & responding to our many locations.
- as w/ "Dead & Breakfast", the cast performed multiple roles:
Kelly Stiles: initial inspiration, camera, Gorgamesh, sock puppets, costuming, gameboard design, editing (not used in this version) etc..
tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE: initial inspiration, camera, MEGALO, Ogre, Butcher of a Satie piano practice, gameboard design, animation, editing, sock puppets, bathroom corpse in "Dead & Breakfast" psychic flashback, 'Teenage Boy' in "Discontinuous Universe" kitchen psychic flashback, latex mask collection, etc..
Morgan Cahn: initial inspiration, camera, Brexskelren Ethetal, WASP, Dag's audience at the Fortuary, Cliff Hanger hooded figure, costuming, gameboard design, sock puppets, house set design etc..
Matthu Stuhl: initial inspiration, camera, Professor, Prostheseus, Minotaur, music in the "Prostheseus in the Labyrinth" scene, sock puppets, etc..
Michael Loomis: initial inspiration, camera, Pope Dag Hammerskull, Cliff Hanger hooded figure, 'Teenage Boy' in "Discontinuous Universe" kitchen psychic flashback, etc..
Thanks to:
Teresa: camera, Seductress, Giant Owl, Ogre stunt double, sock puppets
Aairyn: camera, sock puppets
the Boat People: Evan, Babz, Patrick, Elli
the mischievous kids:
1st generation: Genly Ai, Ivan
2nd generation: Reyghan, FreeSoul
their parents:
Kalie & D2K - for Reyghan & Genly Ai permission
Alan & Nancy - for Ivan permission
Yvette - for FreeSoul permission
Craig - Guy running by w/ Left-Handed Monkey Wrench in The Alley
Heinz History Center
The Carnegie Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Lab:
Insect Cult Members: Walt, Vanessa, Dave, Tim
Robin: protector of the Giant Owl
2 kids in park: protectors of the Giant Owl
Michael's Parisian Friend: camera
Homer & Greenbean: Guinea Pig Oracle(s)
Sarah: Sphinx voice-over
Phipps Conservatory & the Chihuly sculptures
Cathedral of Learning Nationality Rooms
Allegheny Cemetary
Schenley Park
Paris
Pittsburgh
Excelsior Sound Effects CDs
"75 Spectacular Sound Effects" CD
François Rabbath: bass in 2 "Dead & Breakfast" psychic flashbacks of corpses
- mini-DV -> DVD/1/2" VHS cassette
- 1:16:19
- shot in september & october & edited in october & november of 2007
260. a. "Discontinuous Universe" (tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE version w/ intertitles)
- made as a collaborative project by approximately the same group of people as 233. "Dead & Breakfast"
- this project began when Kelly Stiles & April Gilmore dumpstered some costumes in Chicago & decided to try to base a movie around them. they thought of a rough outline for a plot wch tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE (& probably others in the cast) then fleshed out. tENT then proposed that multiple edits be made of the material by people in the group. as such, there will hopefully exist at least one more version edited by Kelly Stiles.
- as w/ "Dead & Breakfast", the cast performed multiple roles:
Kelly Stiles: initial inspiration, Alcoholic Unicorn, Jill, camera, etc..
April Gilmore: initial inspiration, Immacular Degeneration the Seahorse, Henchpin, etc..
tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE: additional inspiration, H.A.M., camera, editing, etc..
Michael Loomis: Diety of Incontinence, camera, etc..
Matthu Stuhl: Lisping Mayan Queen, Clive, incidental music, etc..
Von: Computer Pirate, etc..
Cynthia: Gypsy, etc..
Morgan Cahn: Girl Who Doesn't Make it, camera, etc..
Daniel Prince: Evil Henchman of the Diety of Incontinence #4, etc..
Katie Doody: Preppie Mormon Girl w/ Depends on Head Storyteller
Carrie: unknown, etc..
Carlin Christie: camera
Thanks to:
Germaine Fodor for "The Club" & "Letter to M. A."
& to Annie Sprinkle for "The Sprinkle Report"
Pissing Punk #1: Anonymous Wet Hand
Dave America: Rendered Incontinent Trashpicker #1
Pissing Pants: Rendered Incontinent Trashpicker #2
Dusty & 3 friends: 2nd group of Rendered Incontinents
- mini-DV/DVD/1/2" VHS cassette
- 1:01:21
- primarily shot in the fall of 2005 & then edited in the fall of 2006 - finished october 29, 2006
b. "Discontinuous Universe" (tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE version w/o intertitles)
- 1:00:00
- finished october 31, 2006
c. "Discontinuous Universe" (tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE out-takes version)
- 43:53
- finished november 19, 2006
259. "IMP ACTIVISM 7"
- combines 253, 254, 255, 257, & 258 + many things from other people
- some camera, editing, etc: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- mini-DV/DVD/1/2" VHS cassette
- 2:31:17
- finished june 24, 2006
247. "Story of a Fructiferous Society"
- credited to: The Ballooning One & The Forked One of the Fructiferous Society
- texts culled from many sources - prominent amongst wch is Umberto Eco's _The Search for the Perfect Language_
- shot in Montréal, Berlin, & Pittsburgh
- as usual, most of everything (camera, editing, texts, concept, etc..) by: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- some additional camerawork provided by Monty Cantsin, Kent Bye, etta cetera
- sound primarily from: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE w/ assistance from etta cetera & Ben Opie
- 1/2" reel vaudeo -> 1/2" VHS cassette & 35mm stills & mini-DV -> DVD
- 1:26:00
- '81 / '97 / '05 / etc..
246. "IMP ACTIVISM #6"
- shot in Queen's Qweef; Melbourne; Pittsburgh; Adelaide; Baltimore; Goolengook; etc..
- largely attributable to the Street RatBags & many others that they/we feel politically sympathetic to
- this incorporates 242. "I.A.C. Deer Head Sculpture @ former Rankin Steel Mill", 244. "Media Hero or Media Hore?", 47. "July 4th Anti-Patriotic Picnic" [slightly revised], 245. "Defenders of Goolengook", & 243. "Street Ratbags meet John Safran" - as well as title & contact tracks made from footage shot in Queen's Qweef, Australia_
- 1/2" VHS cassette -> DVD
- app. 2:00:00
- summer '85 / '00-'04 / etc..
231. b. "Harps & Angles"
- to be attributed to "Who is like God?s"
- a quasi-documentary about the "Harps & Angles" installation by "Who is like God?s"
- cameras: Who is like God?s (Pestel & Tolson), Steffi Domike, Bob Gunderson, etta cetera
- starring: Who is like God?s, Steve Boyle, James Knopf, Elise Springer, Hyla Willis, Alex Smith, the vaudience, Michael Pestel's "Sound Art" class, Mark Dixon, Florian Cramer, Michael Johnsen, Greg Pierce, a boy & his dad
- DAT recording: James Knopf
- sampling & all else: Who is like God? (Tolson)
- mini-DV, 1/2" VHS cassette, CD, & DAT -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- 1:54:20
- shot: march - june, '03 / edited: july - september, '03
b. "Harps & Angles" (rough edit of 'performance' version)
- 42:45
- shot: march - june, '03 / edited: july - september/december, '03
c. "Harps & Angles" ('performance' version)
- 28:29
- shot: march - june, '03 / edited: july - september/december, '03
229. "Automatic Pilot"
- using footage from "Rough Draft for 'Etc..Etc..'", "Feedback", 133a. "One Word per Person Party", 136. "Wallpaper Video", 139. "Teaser", 146a. "Concrete Mixing Usical Material Vaudeo #1", 147a. "Concrete Mixing Usical Material Vaudeo #2", 152a."F(acinorous)R(efulgent)E(squamate)D(onnered) S.(A.P.F.U. = Surpassing All Previous Fuck-Ups) L(ongiloquent)I(mprolificating)S(kookum)B(ruxomaniacal)E(pigamic)R(isorial)G(awsie)E(rose) R(hapsodomaniacal)" {mostly un"strobed" version}, 152b. "F(acinorous)R(efulgent)E(squamate)D(onnered) S.(A.P.F.U. = Surpassing All Previous Fuck-Ups) L(ongiloquent)I(mprolificating)S(kookum)B(ruxomaniacal)E(pigamic)R(isorial)G(awsie)E(rose) R(hapsodomaniacal)" {"techno-sensualist" version}, 146b. "Concrete Mixing Usical Material Vaudeo #1" {"techno-sensualist" version - take 1}, 147b. "Concrete Mixing Usical Material Vaudeo #2" {"techno-sensualist" version - take 1}, 146c. "Concrete Mixing Usical Material Vaudeo #1" {"techno-sensualist" version - take 2}, 147c. "Concrete Mixing Usical Material Vaudeo #2" {"techno-sensualist" version - take 2}, 160. "Color Bars", 145a. "Hypnopedagogy", 145a. "Hypnopedagogy" {titled w/ beat}, "Concrete Mixing for Orgone Cinema", "Filmstrips" {in original order for Orgone Cinema presentation}, 202a. "Space Ballet", "3 Simultaneous Reel Projection of 'The "Official" John Lennon's Erection as Blocking Our View Homage & Cheese Sandwich' for the Film Kitchen", "Sunlight thru Blind", 213a. "Circumsubstantial Playing & Blindfolded Tourism", 214. "Hibonsa o osoleluna! "Heibon" ga omae o Dame m sulumaeni" ("Kill Normality Before It Kills You"), 215. "A Slide Show by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE", "Shot out Upstairs Back Window during Rainstorm & Aftermath", "Vertical Lines", "Lightbox"
- super 8 + 1/2" reel vaudeo + regular 8 + unsplit regular 8 + 16mm + 1/2" VHS cassette + 35mm filmstrip -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- 2:02:00
- fall '74-july 24 '03
227. "Subtitles (8 simultaneous versions version)" [sequenced as a feature]
- this is a combination of: 19b. "Subtitles (regular 8 version)" {version 2} + 10b. "Subtitles (super 8 version)" {version 2} + 25b. "Subtitles (16mm version)" {version 2} + 37b. "Subtitles (analysis projector transfer of 16mm to 1/2" VHS cassette version)" {version 2} + 41d. "Subtitles (digitally processed version)" {version 2} + 137b. "Subtitles (processing & miniaturization overkill version w/ inserts)" {version 2} + 148b. "Subtitles (june/july '92 version)" {version 2} + 226. "Subtitles (final? version)" (all but the "16mm version" were made especially for this & especially to be in sync w/ the 16mm & is intended to either have all those versions prsented once thru simultaneously as closely in sync as possible OR all those versions presented simultaneously as closely in sync as possible 8 TIMES IN A ROW w/ only 1 version's soundtrack on per each repetition - most obviously having the "regular 8 version"'s sound only on 1st, then the "super-8"'s sound on 2nd, etc..
- regular-8mm + super-8mm + 1/2" VHS cassette + unsplit regular-8 + 16mm -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- 11:58 OR 8 X 11:58 = app. 1:36:00
- '80-'82/'84/'86/'90/'92/'02
214. "Hibonsa o osoleluna! "Heibon" ga omae o Dame m sulumaeni" ("Kill Normality Before It Kills You")
- This is a compilation of the Nudist Mask movies in chronological order w/ most titles removed & w/ relevant footage from 213a. "Circumsubstantial Playing & Blindfolded Tourism" interspersed. The other movies used are: 20. "Seriousness is Death", 98c. "Tent's Muir" {version 3}, 123. "Nudist Party", 130. "Signs & Symptoms of Leptospirosis", 158 b. "Volunteers Collective XII - The Last Transmission From the Short & Happy Life of a Meteorite Nudist Camp", 163. "Funny Farm Summit Meeting", 178. "Mirthplace of the Republicans", 204. "Y, 2, Nay-Ked!", + footage shot in mid '02 as a present for me of Channing naked w/ rubber feet & headgear riding a unicycle w/ flaming pedals & playing accordion while nude & masked etta cetera & Andalusia run around him on a street in Pittsburgh at night.
- super-8 & 1/2" VHS cassette & 8mm vaudeo & 16mm & mini-DV -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- 1:11:04
- '82 - '02
213. a. "Circumsubstantial Playing & Blindfolded Tourism"
- shot at the Mattress Factory & on the streets & at an undisclosed location in Pittsburgh
- mini-DV camera by John Evans, Jarrett Buba, & Owen Smith
- 1/2" VHS cassette shooting by all but one of the Pit Crew: etta, Dave, Nicole, Swifty, & Wynne
- 1/2" VHS cassette
- 1:30:42
- august 10 / september 23-25, 01
211. "IMP ACTIVISM #2"
- shot in Pittsburgh; Melbourne; Adelaide; Philadelphia; New York City; & New England
- largely attributable to the Street RatBags & many others that they/we feel politically sympathetic to
- this incorporates the entirety of 205. "T.I.A.R.A.", 206. "'Work Will Make You Free Trade' Explained", 208. "Slime Detecting", 209. "Anti-W.T.O. Demonstration in Pittsburgh", & 210. "The Lab Rats Explain Their Veggie-Oil Powered Van" - as well as edited footage from the Surveillance Camera Players & newscasts regarding them + SKA TV + the Misinformed Citizens & Low Rent Media
- 1/2" VHS cassette
- 2:00:47
- november 30, '99 - april 4, '01
207. a. "Don't Walk Backwards" (Long Version)
- tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE etta cetera
- shot in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Adelaide, Lake Eyre, William Creek, Coober Pedy, Melbourne, Canberra, Queen's Cliff, Goongerah, Goolengook, & Sydney, Australia from march '00 - june '01
- edited in Pittsburgh, us@ by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE from june '00 - march '01
- Super-8mm, 16mm, PXL-2000, 35mm filmstrips, 35mm slidestrips, 1/2" VHS cassette -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- 8:24:43
- march '00 - march '01
203. a. "Where We're"
- w/ text written by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE etta cetera
- w/ readings from tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE; etta cetera; Sharyn Lee Neccai; John Evans; Phat Man Dee
- synthesizer usic from tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE w/ violin samples from David Prentice
- shot in Pittsburgh; Founders Grove, Humboldt Redwoods State Park; Black Rock City, Nevada (during Burning Man '99); etc.. - using found filmstrips provided by Jubal Brown + 35mm motion picture film provided by Laura Kikauka
- 35mm filmstrip w/ prerecorded sound
- 2:03:30
- october '98 - november '99
b. "Where We're"
- w/ transfer assistance from John Evans
- 35mm filmstrip & recorded sound transferred to 1/2" VHS cassette both as a filmstrip & as a 35mm film (this latter in 16 ways)
c. "Where We're Trailer #1"
- 35mm filmstrip & recorded sound transferred to 1/2" VHS cassette as a 35mm film (in 16 ways)
- 11:16
d. "Where We're Trailer #2"
- 35mm filmstrip & recorded sound transferred to 1/2" VHS cassette as a 35mm film (in 8 ways)
- 5:37
e. "Where We're" (w/ Windsor Generic Tour)
- In the collection of Peter "Brainpang" Warner
- similar to a. except that various vaudeo f/x are used as well as slightly more complicated transfer techniques + footage from the Generic Tour in Windsor is added + a snippet of mystery footage + additional sound from "Livid at the Schmaltzwald" by John Henry Nyenhuis & tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- 2:01:56
f. "Where We're" (w/ Windsor Generic Tour, etc..)
- similar to e. except that additional footage from the Pittsburgh Generic Tour, the "Black Rectangle over the Eye" presentation in Baltimore (that involved a screening of the filmstrip version of "Where We're"), & the American Urological Association is inserted
- 2:01:56
202. a. "Space Ballet" (Usical Material Version in 24 parts)
- w/ a soundtrack using elements from tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE; Peter Illich Tchaikovsky; George Antheil; John Henry Nyenhuis; Remi Gassman; & Frank Zappa
- 1/2" VHS cassette
- 2:00:30
- october-november '99
b. "Space Ballet" (condensed)
- 5:02
200. "IMP ACTIVISM #1"
- shot in Ithaca, NY; BalTimOre, MD; Pittsburgh; Philadelphia; 3 Mile Island; Mexico; Washington DC; the Pentagon; & Boston
- largely attributable to the Street Rat Liberation Front & many others that they/we feel politically sympathetic to
- this incorporates small excerpts from 142. "Vermin Supreme Campaining for Mayor in BalTimOre, Tuesday, October 22nd, 1991E.V.", a considerably shortened edit of 6. "3 Mile Island", the entirety (very slightly altered) of 196. "Foiled Again!", & the entirety of 197. "Injustice System", 198. "Close the School of the Americas!", & 199. "Carnival Against Capital"
- super 8 & PXL-200 & VHS & audio tape (etc..) -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- 1:02:20
- february - august '99 (etc..)
188. a. "Volunteers Collective"
- using footage from: "The Widening of Peripheral Vision" (VC "3") (super 8) by John Berndt; "Color Bars" (using sound from VCs 10, 11, 15, 16, 17) (see #160), "Volunteers Collective XII - The Last Transmission From the Short & Happy Life of a Meteorite Nudist Camp" (see #158); Volunteers Collective 18 (super 8) by Alisa Dix; Volunteers Collective 19: "Vexations" (1/2" VHS cassette) by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE; Volunteers Collective 21 (16mm) shot by Alisa Dix & directed & edited by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE; Volunteers Collective 23 (1/2" VHS cassette) by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE; "The Department of Good Places to Live Presents: Volunteers Collective XXIV" (8mm vaudeo -> 1/2" VHS cassette) (see #174) shot by Alisa Dix & edited & effected by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE; Volunteers Collective 26 (1/2" VHS cassette) by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE; "Frothing Catatonic Siamese Twins Volunteers Collective 27 d composing Mozart Release Party" (8mm vaudeo -. 1/2" VHS cassette) (see #179) shot by Michael Johnsen & edited by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE; Volunteers Collective in the Welker Room @ Chatham, March 30, '97 (8mm vaudeo -> 1/2" VHS cassette) shot & effected by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE; Volunteers Collective near the Implosion of 500 Wood St, May 25, '97 (super 8) by Sharyn Lee Frederick & Michael Johnsen; Volunteers Collective @ the Anonymous Family Reunion @ Ringing Rocks State Park (near Pottstown), August 30, '97 (8mm vaudeo -> 1/2" VHS cassette) (see #181) by Anonymous; Volunteers Collective @ the Anonymous Family Reunion @ Sonambient Theater #1, August 30, '97 (8mm vaudeo -> 1/2" VHS cassette) (see #181) by Anonymous; Volunteers Collective @ the Anonymous Family Reunion @ Sonambient Theater #2, August 31, '97 (8mm vaudeo -> 1/2" VHS cassette) (see #181) by Anonymous; Volunteers Collective @ Chatham Pool, October 26, '97 (8mm vaudeo) shot by Michael Pestel &tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE; "Background Movie for Home Music: Home" (see #183); "Background Movie for Home Music: Light Motion" [should be "Hurry"] (see #184); Volunteers Collective @ Jessica Rustler's Gongs @ Chatham, February 15, '98 (8mm vaudeo) - shot by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE; Volunteers Collective @ the National Aviary, February 22, '98 (8mm vaudeo) - shot by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE; & Volunteers Collective "A Year of Sundays" Release Party @ Chatham Pool, March 29, '98 - shot & edited by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE & disrupted by Michael Pestel
- edited & effected etc by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- super 8 & 1/2" reel vaudeo & 8mm vaudeo & 1/2" VHS cassette & 16mm -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- 1:30:00
- from app. '90 or '91 to march '98
b. "Volunteers Collective" {superimposition version 1}
- w/ visuals superimposition assistance from James Knopf
- this version superimposes the visuals of the 1st half-hour + the 2nd half-hour + the 3rd half-hour
- stereo w/ the sound from the 1st half-hour in the left & the 2nd half-hour in the right
- 30:00
- from app. '90 or '91 to march '98 & july/august '01
c. "Volunteers Collective" {superimposition version 2}
- w/ visuals superimposition assistance from James Knopf
- this version superimposes the visuals of the 1st half-hour + the 2nd half-hour + the 3rd half-hour
- stereo w/ the sound from the middle half-hour panning between left & right
- 30:00
- from app. '90 or '91 to march '98 & july/august '01
d. "Volunteers Collective" {superimposition version 3}
- w/ visuals superimposition assistance from James Knopf
- this version superimposes the visuals of the 1st half-hour + the 2nd half-hour + the 3rd half-hour
- stereo w/ the sound from b. & c. combined
- 30:00
- from app. '90 or '91 to march '98 & july/august '01
177. "FILMSTRIPS"
- a collaboration w/ Orgone Cinema & friends using found filmstrips w/ their original sound + found filmstrips for which new soundtracks were made by Edgar Um-Bucholtz & anonymous & Frauke Johnsen & Greg Pierce & Todd Whitman + found filmstrip sound w/ a new filmstrip made for it by Greg Pierce
- edited by Michael Johnsen & anonymous
- 35mm filmstrips & audio cassettes & records -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- 1:01:34
- '96
175. "Satanic Liposuction, Neoasm?!, & YOU!!"
- a collection of footage donated to me by John Berndt (4 X 50'), Mannette Letter (2 X 50'), Laure Drogoul (app 50'), Richard/Susan Henderson (2 X 50'), Florian Cramer (app 8 X 50'), Gen Ken Montgomery (7 X 50'), Boris Wanowitch (50'), Monty Cantsin/Istvan Kantor (app 10'); + excerpts from a home-movie version of "War and Peace"; + "porno" made by "unknowns"; + excerpts from "Mike Film" (see #3), "Crab Feast(s)" (see #11), "Luskin's" (see #56), "International Neoist/Tourist Day" (see #60), "Sponging off the Mandlebrot Set" (see #128), + out-takes from "Balling Tim Ore is Best" (see #49), "6 Fingers Crossed Country T.Ore/Tour" (see #55), "Vex 1990E.V." (see #135); + the entirety of "It's Not A Matter of Life & Death: Part Z: Stereo Brain (preface)" (see #62) & "Re-Runs" (see #132); + previously unused footage labelled: "Finish Off the Roll Film Using Intervalometer Shot from my House to Second Story Books to the Science Fiction Book Store etc..", "'Live' Autopsy" (shot for me by Martha Colburn w/ the assistance of Bill Haas), & "Funny Farm Disco Room"; + footage shot especially for it including the title, credit, & "Satanic Liposuction" scene (shot by Greg Pierce), etc..
- (cr)edited (to/)by anonymous
- soundtrack provided by Anonymous, John Berndt, & Gen Ken Montgomery
- super 8
- 1:17:00
- (footage from '78 - '98) edited from fall '95 - summer '98
b. "Satanic Liposuction, Neoasm?!, & YOU!!"
- revised to include screening footage from Orgone Cinema 1999 five projector version, 2000 Melbourne Super-8 Club version w/ explication & reel change tarot reading, 2007 Jefferson Presents explication from S. Cannon, John Allen Gibel & tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- super-8, 1/2" VHS cassette, & mini-DV -> DVD/mini-DV
- 1:25:07
- finished april 6, '07
171. a. "The Department of Maybe Presents: Problem-Solving Demonstration"
- a collaboration w/ Julia Dzwonkoski
- 8mm vaudeo
- any duration up to 55:00
- november 4, '95
b. "El Departamento de Quizás Presenta: una Demostración de Soluciones de Rompecabezas"
- the Spanish version
- thanks to Megan Rooney & Lindsay Ruprecht for playing the game & to Jarrett Buba for having the patience to help me w/ the tedious technicalities
- 1/2" VHS cassette
- 1:17:35
- january 29, '94
160. "Color Bars"
- 1/2" reel vaudeo
- 1:00:00
- october '93
157. a. ""Official" Retrospective: June 23, '90E.V. - July 28, '91E.V."
- 1/2" VHS cassette
- 30:00
- '91
b. "2 Yrs of "Official" History" (incorporating "a.")
- 1/2" VHS cassette
- 2:00:00
- '92
c. ""Official" Thistory" (incorporating most of the preceding & 155d)
- PXL-2000 & 1/2" VHS cassette -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- 2:00:00
- '91-'93
156. a. "Party Propaganda" {version 1}
- regular 8, super 8, & 1/2" VHS cassette -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- 2:00:00
- '90-'93
b. "Party Propaganda" {version 2}
- 1:09:00
155. a. "Official Tour/Ture - '92" {version 1}
- PXL-2000 & 1/2" VHS cassette -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- 2:00:00
- '92-'93
b. "Official Tour/Ture - '92" {version 2}
- 1:17:00
c. "Official Tour/Ture - '92" {version 3}
- 37:30
d. "Official Tour/Ture - '92" {version 4}
- 28:30
152. a. "F(acinorous)R(efulgent)E(squamate)D(onnered) S.(A.P.F.U. = Surpassing All Previous Fuck-Ups) L(ongiloquent)I(mprolificating)S(kookum)B(ruxomaniacal)E(pigamic)R(isorial)G(awsie)E(rose)R(hapsodomaniacal)" {mostly un"strobed" version}
- 8mm vaudeo -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- 2:00:00
- december, '92
b. "F(acinorous)R(efulgent)E(squamate)D(onnered) S.(A.P.F.U. = Surpassing All Previous Fuck-Ups) L(ongiloquent)I(mprolificating)S(kookum)B(ruxomaniacal)E(pigamic)R(isorial)G(awsie)E(rose)R(hapsodomaniacal)" {"techno-sensualist" version}
147. a. "Concrete Mixing Usical Material Vaudeo #2"
- slides, regular 8, super 8, unsplit regular 8, 16mm, 1/2" reel vaudeo, & 1/2" VHS cassette -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- 1:00:00
- '92
b. "Concrete Mixing Usical Material Vaudeo #2" ("techno-sensualist" version - take 1)
- processed via 8mm vaudeo -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- '92/'93
c. "Concrete Mixing Usical Material Vaudeo #2" ("techno-sensualist" version - take 2)
146. a. "Concrete Mixing Usical Material Vaudeo #1"
- slides, regular 8, super 8, unsplit regular 8, 16mm, 1/2" reel vaudeo, & 1/2" VHS cassette -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- 1:00:00
- '92
b. "Concrete Mixing Usical Material Vaudeo #1" ("techno-sensualist" version - take 1)
- processed via 8mm vaudeo -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- '92/'93
c. "Concrete Mixing Usical Material Vaudeo #1" ("techno-sensualist" version - take 2)
144. a. "The "Official" John Lennon's Erection as Blocking Our View Homage & Cheese Sandwich"
- 16mm -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- 25:30
- '90-'92
b. "The "Official" John Lennon's Erection as Blocking Our View Homage & Cheese Sandwich" ("techno-sensualist" version)
- 16mm -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- 25:30
- '90-'93
c. "The "Official" John Lennon's Erection as Blocking Our View Homage & Cheese Sandwich"
- 16mm -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- 1:24:00
- '90-'95
139. "Teaser"
- 1/2" VHS cassette
- 2:00:00
- '87/'91
136. "Wallpaper Video"
- w/ Angus & Larry Cherniak
- 8mm video -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- 1:51:32
- april 9, '90 (etc..)
133. a. "One Word per Person Party" {version 1}
- 1/2" VHS cassette
- 2:00:00
- march 23, '90 (etc..)
b. "One Word per Person Party" {version 2}
- 1:00:00
c. "One Word per Person Party" {version 3}
- w/ inserts
- 10:00
118. a. "4 Months Away From Harm City"
- w/ Laura A. Trueseal & Pete Horobin
- slides, PXL-2000, & 1/2" VHS cassette -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- 3:30:00
- '88
b. "Homeless Movies" {version 1}
- 2:00:00
- '88-'90
c. "Homeless Movies" {version 2}
- w/ titles, etc..
{there are actually 2 other intermediary versions between "b." & "c."
that are basically preparatory for "c." & therefore not "worth" listing separately}
117. "I Plagiarized This Title From Outer Space Junk Mail"
- w/ Laura A. Trueseal
- PXL-2000 -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- 4:00:00
- '88
68. "An Incomplete History of APT Festivals"
{see #s 13, 22, 27, 30, 34, & 44}
- super 8, 1/2" reel vaudeo, & 1/2" VHS cassette -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- 2:30:00
- '87 (etc..)
67. "Ultimatum II"
- as editor
- 1/2" VHS cassette
- 2:00:00
- '87
63. a. "Easter Island Bunny Edit"
- super 8 & 16mm & 1/2" VHS cassette -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- 1:00:00
- '87
b. "Easter Island Bunny booed usic (middle mix)"
c. "Easter Island Bunny booed usic (final mix)"
d. "Easter Island Bunny booed usic
(final mix @ double speed & processed to remain @ original pitch)" -> 3/4" vaudeo
- 30:00
e. "Easter Island Bunny booed usic (final mix)" {"techno-sensualist" version}
- processed via 8mm vaudeo -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- 1:00:00
- '87/'93
59. a. "Super Nova: The Climax/Anti-Climax of Sex (slow version)"
- 1/2" VHS cassette
- 2:00:00
- '87
b. "Super Nova: The Climax/Anti-Climax of Sex (fast version)"
- 1:00:00
c. "Super Nova: The Climax/Anti-Climax of Sex (fast version)" {"techno-sensualist" version}
- processed via 8mm vaudeo
- 1/2" VHS cassette
- 1:00:00
- '87/'93
58. "Not So Private Life (1st edit)"
- 1/2" VHS cassette
- 1:00:00
- '87
55. "6 Fingers Crossed Country T.Ore/Tour"
- super 8 & 1/2" VHS cassette -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- 1:30:00
- '86
44. a. "The 8th International Neoist Apartment Festival" {version 1}
- shot by various Monty Cantsins
- edited & otherwise altered by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- super 8 & 1/2" VHS cassette -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- 1:40:00
- '84/'88
b. "The 8th International Neoist Apartment Festival" {version 2}
- 1:00:00
c. "The 8th International Neoist Apartment Festival" {version 3}
- 38:20
d. "The 8th International Neoist Apartment Festival" - w/ inserts
- 38:20
- '84/'88/'90
38. "t he Telectropheremoanin'quinquennial"
- shot by Lizard Media Systems & Craig Considine
- organized & edited by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- 1/2" VHS cassette
- 1:00:00
- january 24, '84 (etc..)
37. a. "Subtitles (analysis projector transfer of 16mm to 1/2" VHS cassette version)" {version 1}
- 1/2" VHS cassette
- 1:00:00
- '80-'82/january '84
b. "Subtitles (analysis projector transfer of 16mm to 1/2" VHS cassette version)" {version 2}
- edited to parallel the 18 sections of the 16mm version for multiply projecting 8 versions simultaneously
- 11:58
- '80-'82/january '84/october 29, '02
34. a. "Apt 7" {version 1}
- shot by Lizard Media Systems &/or Craig Considine (color) & Laure Drogoul (B&W) w/ additional footage (super 8) from Laure Drogoul & Boris Wanowitch
- organized & edited by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- 1/2" VHS cassette
- 2:00:00
- '83 (etc..)
b. "Apt 7" {version 2}
- 1:00:00
c. "Apt 7" {version 3}
- 31:20
33. a. "14BX Sub-Par/Con" {version 1}
- shot by Lizard Media Systems &/or Craig Considine
- edited & otherwise altered by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- 3:00:00
- '83 (etc..)
b. "14BX Sub-Par/Con" {version 2}
- 1:30:00
c. "14BX Sub-Par/Con" {version 3}
- w/ digital effects overkill & titles
28. "Exquisite Corpse"
- 1st layer shot by Nancy Andrews & tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE, 2nd layer shot by John Ellsberry
- 16mm loop
- indefinite duration
- october '82
14. "Silent Speed"
- 16mm loop
- indefinite duration
- mid '81
13. a. "81 Apt" {version 1}
- shot by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE (1/2" reel vaudeo), Lizard Media Systems (1/2" VHS cassette), & Mannette Letter (super 8) -> edited to 1/2" VHS cassette by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- 2:00:00 [not "worth" presenting]
- may-june '81 (etc..)
b. "81 Apt" {version 2}
- 32:00
12. a. "Attempt to Undermine Reality Maintenance Traps" {version 1}
- shot as a 2 tape/2 monitor presentation by Axis Video
- directed & DidActed in by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE (under the name of id ntity)
- 1/2" VHS cassette & betamax cassette
- 2:00:00
- february 2 (groundhog's day), '81 (etc..)
b. "Attempt to Undermine Reality Maintenance Traps" {version 2}
- edited to 1 tape 1/2" VHS cassette by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- 6:00
4. "Ghost*
(of Lamar "Chip" Layfield / Carol / Pat Brown / tentatively, a convenience)
(of films by entities other than myself)
of my Mike Film project
* - a Projectionist's Nightmare"
- super 8 (an 'inappropriate' 1/2" VHS cassette version exists)
- indefinite duration
- fall '78 (etc..)
3. "Mike Film"
- super 8
- indefinite duration
- fall '78
to the tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE movie-making "Press: Criticism, Interviews, Reviews" home-page
to the "tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - Sprocket Scientist" home-page
to the "FLICKER" home-page for the alternative cinematic experience
to be confused by conceptual obstacle-course neoism
to find out more about why the S.P.C.S.M.E.F. (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Sea Monkeys by Experimental Filmmakers) is so important
for info on tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE's tape/CD publishing label: WIdémoUTH
to hear excerpts from tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE's CD "Low Classical Usic" c/o Audiophfile v1.0
to see an underdeveloped site re the N.A.A.M.C.P. (National Association for the Advancement of Multi-Colored Peoples)
to reach an index containing links to mp3 files of the even-numbered tracks of the STREET RAT #2 CD called "RATical RATio - pRAT 1" from tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
for writings from the files of an Unknown Neoist