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A smattering of repeated performances culled from old porno films and hand painted. A man bends over a body, but what we really notice is the texture of the wall behind him. A woman stares back at the viewer with annoyance. On the soundtrack Anais Nin declares: “but while I’m doing this I feel I’m not living.”

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This here is a pretty unique avant-garde film from director Mark Street. I had never heard of the film before coming across a discussion on it. From what I read, it appears the director took a old porn movie (pre-1950s) and optically zoomed in on it only to them do a post-production thing called step-printing.

I guess the best way to describe this is if you remember those old cable boxes where you could turn to a pay channel and view bits and pieces of it as it would be too blurry to fully “watch” but at times the picture would come together well enough to where you could make out what was going on. I think it’s pretty doubtful that the majority of people would watch this thing but those who like strange trips should enjoy it. I really liked the style that the director brought to the film and it really seems as if it was put together with an imagination and not just a bunch of images thrown together just for the sake of calling it art. The music score was also extremely effective as was the way the vocals were used.

Mark Street - 1994 - Blue Movie [WEB 576p].mkv

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Ritual in Transfigured Time is like a dream, meaning that the various sequences don’t seem to have any connection to each other unless you try to approach this film in a different way and not as a conventional hollywood movie.

The main character in the film is Rita Christiani who after a strange scene with Maya Deren herself who disappears startling Rita, appears in this ball with ladies and gentlemen dancing. This film has one of the most beautiful scenes in a Maya Deren’s film when Rita Christiani while she’s dancing she appears to float in the air.

+Commentary by film scholar Moira Sullivan

747MB | 14m 33s | 960×720 | mkv

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A magical voyage into the subconscious in search of “the lost continent” of first human memories. Based on Anais Nin’s prose poem, the film provides a visual equivalent in subaqueous, drifting imagery taken from reality but entirely transformed into a new and sensuously poetic universe. Excellent electronic score by Louis and Bebe Barron. – Amos Vogel, Film as a Subversive Art

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A perfect fusion of poetry and film, with dense layered imagery and music from electro pioneers Louise and Bebe Barron. The writer Anais Nin provides dialogue from her novella ‘House of Incest’ and appears adrift in the undersea realm of Atlantis before ascending to dry land.

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Anais Nin is best known for her diaries depicting her psychological and artistic growth, published House of Incest in 1958. This dream-journey features Nin reading an extract from her novella House of Incest, in particularly the line “I remember my first birth in water,” Bells of Atlantis evokes the watery depths of the lost continent of ourselves, and the images suggest the aqueous beauty of that lost world. It is a lyrical journey into another time, an imaginative film exploration of a poet’s world. Her episodic text recites a narrative of the agonizing birth of consciousness from the indistinct fluid realms of Atlantis, the film’s metaphor for the subconscious. The visual track of the camera sways gently in contrasting directions over each of the three layers of superimposed images that are usually present.

Ian Hugo - 1952 - Bells of Atlantis [BR 576p].mkv

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