New Voices

Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Gavin Bryars uses the poignant piety in the found voice of a fading London drunk and creates, with Dwoskin's looping images of granular certainty, a structuralist hymn.
• By Steve Dwoskin. Music by Gavin Bryars. Orchestra conducted by Gavin Bryars. Sound by Bob Woolfond. Man on the street (image only): Leonard Bosworth. (1972, 30 mins, color, Print from Canyon Cinema)

Oh Dem Watermelons
Nelson's funkily manic combination of live-action and collage animation, made for the San Francisco Mime Troupe, and Reich's mellow-mocking barbershop-nontette voices-over.
• By Robert Nelson. Sound Track by Steve Reich. (1965, 12 mins, color, Print from PFA Collection)

The Golden Positions
Robert Hughes' a capella vocal tracery provides background for Broughton's poetically humorous homage to the unadorned human form.
• By James Broughton. Photographed by Fred Padula. Music by Robert Hughes. (1970, 32 mins, color, Print from Canyon Cinema)

My Name is Oona
Gunvor Nelson created this cinepoem to her daughter Oona's coming to consciousness.
• By Gunvor Nelson. With Oona. (1969-70, 10 mins, Print from Serious Business)

Surface Work
From his long-standing study of Zen, Pies' film expresses a complete audio-visual unity. Treating the screen as one dynamic surface, pastel patterns cycle like waves in response to the artist's voice.
• By Dennis Pies. (1979, 5 mins, color, Print from Serious Business)

America is Waiting
Musicians Brian Eno and David Byrne asked Conner to make a work inspired from their new record, “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.” He assembled images of radar, flash-frames, pledgings of allegiance, deodorant commercials, and explosions....
• By Bruce Conner. Music by Brian Eno and David Byrne. (1981, 3-1/2 mins, Print from Serious Business)

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