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A documentary film exploring the manner in which a determined young man overcame a basic mental defect and became a useful member of society. Insightful editing techniques reveal the dreams, ideals and problems that face a large segment of the American male population. Educational. Background music written and performed by the Devo orchestra.–B.C.

Mongoloid he was a mongoloid, happier than you and me.
Mongoloid he was a mongoloid, and it determined what he could see.
Mongoloid he was a mongoloid, one chromosome too many.
And he wore a hat, and he had a job
And he brought home the bacon so that no one knew
–Devo

Bruce Conner - 1978 - Mongoloid.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	3 min 44 s
Size: 	72.2 MiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	698x480 ~> 698x523
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	2 445 kb/s
BPP: 	0.304
Audio
#1:  	English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 256 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/6FA190AF8BC6E9A/Bruce_Conner_-_1978_-_Mongoloid.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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When Conner was commissioned to design the poster for the 1965 New York Film Festival he constructed TEN SECOND FILM, which he intended to act as its television commercial and to precede the film programs in the theater. It was a public ‘Leader’ in that it was composed, like the poster, of a series of ten strips of film (each 24 frames long) of count-down leader, seen as fundamental heraldry of motion picture exhibition. The leaders of the Festival, however, felt it was too risky to submit the public to this secret image of their heritage.” – Anthony Reveaux

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From the official Bruce Conner Website:
“One reason the festival gave for rejecting the film was it “went too fast.” It travels the right speed: 24 frames per second. 240. Count ’em.”

Bruce Conner - 1965 - Ten Second Film.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	14 s 932 ms
Size: 	4.60 MiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	698x480 ~> 698x523
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	2 581 kb/s
BPP: 	0.321

https://nitro.download/view/EF460B9B1188BB9/Bruce_Conner_-_1965_-_Ten_Second_Film.mkv

Language(s):None
Subtitles:None

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Cosmic Ray (1962)

Experimental short uses Ray Charles’ “What’d I Say” as accompaniment to constantly shifting collage of female nude, cartoons, and newsreels of atomic bomb explosions.

83.5MB | 4m 13s | 652×489 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/4BA0E1C00493DD5/Cosmic.Ray.1962.DVDRip.x264.mkv
or
https://tezfiles.com/file/eae6def4dcaea/Cosmic.Ray.1962.DVDRip.x264.mp4

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

The post Bruce Conner – Cosmic Ray (1962) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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The singular title of Bruce Conner’s A Movie positions this avant-garde short as though it were a prototypical example for the entire medium. In fact, Conner’s film is the self-conscious inheritor of a particular tradition within the movies, a particular use to which moving pictures have been put: the filmic spectacle. Where Conner’s film, constructed entirely from a wide variety of found footage, diverges from this tradition is in its recognition that in spectacle, the content hardly matters so much as the sensations conveyed through the film. Conner claims the cinema as essentially an art of montage, of combination, cutting together disparate materials from Hollywood epics, car and motorcycle races, plane and boat crashes, war footage, the atomic bomb, and sexy girls. It’s like a catalog of the cinema’s sensationalist devices, all of them blended together with little regard for their origins. A rapid-fire montage towards the beginning of the film switches almost seamlessly between horses in a cavalry charge, a trotting elephant, a train, and cars speeding around a track. The viewer has to strain to even notice the transitions, which happen almost subliminally because the scene’s dominant feel is maintained across each fluid cut: it’s speed, pure and simple, and the racing, speeding object hardly matters in comparison to the overall impression communicated by the montage. Conner is exposing the most basic workings of cinema here, intuitively grasping that he can cut together very different material and still achieve something that “feels” right because its editing has the proper rhythms.

155MB | 11:35.189 | 640×464 | avi

http://nitroflare.com/view/326F2E729B9772E/A_Movie.avi

Language(s):No
Subtitles:No

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