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neil needleman/once upon a time in brooklyn/video frame

Neil Ira Needleman Film/Videography

1970s-1980s
The Arrangements (a series of one-roll Super8 films)

1992
Red Ribbons (63 min.) An AIDS drama/comedy starring the late, great Quentin Crisp and ‘70s porn queen Georgina Spelvin. In distribution and available from Water Bearer Films (www.waterbearerfilms.com)

1994
Famous Again (77 min.) A short narrative about Hollywood legends, contemporary pop culture, and sensationalist journalism. This micro-budget video reunited me with Quentin Crisp and Georgina Spelvin.

2002
Wedding Nigun for Boruch & Menucha
Latest Memories
UNFOCUSED: A Found-Footage Video Series

2003
Reasonable Explanations
Two Survivors
Cellular Activity: TAKING FLIGHT
Between Blinks 1
A compilation video consisting of:
Hurricane
One Sunset, Two Views
Time for Kitsch
A Day in the Art Museum with Stuart Davis and Jesus Christ
Broken Song of Freedom

2004
Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn
My First Film Noir
Consenting Adults
Cellular Activity: SPLIT SCREEN
Between Blinks 2
A compilation video consisting of:
Philadelphia
Moving Day (Super8, from The Arrangements series)
Ballad of Jesse James in Geneva
Stamford Storefront
Ann: Before and After
Late Afternoon
No Escape
Between Blinks 3
A compilation video consisting of:
Bush Defends America Against France and the Forces of Evil
The Woman at the Other End of the Party
Brooklyn Square Dancers (Super8, from The Arrangements series)
Heavy Handed. But True.
Quirk: Horizontal
My Love Affair with Loops…
Been Waiting Long?
Big Welcome
The Day After Election Day, 2004

2005
Fun in Bed with Tanya
Thanksgiving Loop
No Signal
Ayler Vibrato Vortex
Dell Hell: My Battle with Dell as the World Went to Hell
Cellular Activity: BECHET VIBRATO FRAGMENTS
Infinity Fragment 1

2006
Infinity Fragment 2
Between Blinks 4
A compilation video consisting of:
American Landscape 1
Dark Zydeco
On a Wing and a Prayer
Another Language I Can’t Speak
“Infinity Fragment” Fragment
An Imaginary Movie
Yes, I Enjoyed my Cousin’s Wedding in New Jersey
Uncle Hyman Cleans Up
I Provide the Images, You Provide the Metaphor
(and several commercial interruptions)

Works in progress (both utilizing footage from my daughter’s recent Hasidic wedding)
Cellular Activity: TANZ!
Sheva Brucha

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photos harald plochberger, 5/13 - 5/14 2006

bau 17

... through the wastelands of theology, psychology, art, literature and sex. Glittering residue of their interrupted dialogue surfaces, inevitably, in their painting and poetry.

Is there a theme? Only accidentally: the ineluctable combination of comedies and catastrophe that dogs our life. Of late Winchester has been much-intrigued by philosopher poet Anne Carson's notion of "the catastrophizing of communication," while Coughenour continues to find dubious inspiration in archetypal psychologist James Hillman's musings about "pathologized" images as a way of soul-making. These excursions into elevated arcana generally conclude in laughter, deep sighs, art or another martini.

Elizabeth Winchester is a painter and printer whose work portrays a life of disorientation and geographic dissonance. The paintings and prints include fragments of maps, newspapers, collage or found objects resulting in the creation of a personal topography. There are occasional intimations of aerial landscapes or singing abstract, rhythmic movements. Following the lure of detail, layers begin to unfold, veils lift, revealing increasingly disparate details of an idiosyncratic world. After a lifetime of hi-tech in Silicon Valley, Winchester attended the SF Art Institute and has lately been haunting the Woodstock School of Art printing studio. Her work has been shown in CA, FL, NY, CT and Denmark and is in collections in the US and UK.
www.elizabethwinchester.org

Jim Coughenour is a writer and cartoonist whose fiction, essays, reviews and cartoons have appeared in an alarming number of tiny magazines, gay newsweeklies, academic tomes and tawdry.

Elizabeth Winchester, Residence On Earth