PROGRAM 1:
VERY NICE, VERY NICE (1961, 7 minutes, 35mm)
Lipsett’s first film, nominated for an Academy Award, is a sardonic re-reading of 1950s consumerism, mass media and popular culture.
EXPERIMENTAL FILM (1963, 28 minutes, 35mm)
21-87 (1964, 10 minutes, 35mm)
“Few films are as movingly bleak as Lipsett’s little-known 21-87. [A] stunning evocation of dehumanization….” –Fred Camper, CHICAGO READER
FREE FALL (1964, 9 minutes, 35mm)
Inspired in part by Dylan Thomas’s poem, ‘The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower.’
A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE (1965, 13 minutes, 35mm)
A surrealist time capsule combining fifty years of newsreel footage, this was Lipsett’s first pure collage film, composed exclusively from stock image and sound from the NFB bins.
FLUXES (1968, 24 minutes, 35mm)
Lipsett’s most scathing, pessimistic work, a metaphorical emptying out of the NFB trim bin.
Total running time: ca. 95 minutes.
–Friday and Saturday, August 15 & 16 at 7:00.