Rubicon Cinema Program 2015-2025
Season 8 (2024–2025)
Pat O’Neill
Water and Power (1989), 16mm, 54 min
John Smith
The Black Tower (1987), 16mm, 24 min
Larry Gottheim
Doorway (1970), video (transferred from 16mm film), 7:5 min
Harmonica (1971), video (transferred from 16mm film), 10:5 min
The Red Thread (1987), video (transferred from 16mm film), 15:5 min
Entanglement (2022), video, 24 min
A Private Room (2024), video, 10 min
Amy Halpern
Falling Lessons (1992), 16mm, 64 min
Horses 4K
Live ambient performance by Jacob Trombetta and Robin Guiler (no fixed runtime noted)
Conor McGrady
Entering the Forbidden Zone (2021), video, color, sound, 61 min
Original Copy
(R)ed (G)reen (B)urren (2024), video, color, sound, 8 min
The Hermit’s Song (2025), video, color, sound, 11 min
DUSTIN GRELLA
Prayers for Peace (2009), 7 min
Notes to Self, 20 Years, 2022
The House That Jack Built, 2018
NYT: Op Docs, 2013 & 2015
Hummingbirds Wings, 2015
Intrepid Animated (series), 2018
Mind/Trip: OCD, 2020
I Married My Family’s Killer, 2014
Animation Hotline, 2022 & 2015
The Night Witch, 2013
Glimpse, 2007
Wanted: NYC Studio, 2009
Season 7 (2023–2024)
Jack Smith
No President (1967–70), 16mm, 45 min
Bruce Checefsky
Andy Warhol Films Jack Smith Filming Normal Love (remake) (2023), digital, sound, 6 min
Doctor Hypnison, or the Technique of Living (2021), digital, sound, 6 min
Ulysses, Part 1 (2012), 16mm, silent, 6 min
Jim Finn
The Apocalypse Is the Mother of All Christian Theology (2023), video, 61 min
Chums from Across the Void (2015), video, 17 min
Phil Solomon
Nocturne (1980/1989), 16mm, silent, b&w, 10 min
The Snowman (1995), 16mm, sound, color, 8 min
The Secret Garden (1988), 16mm, silent, color, 17 min
Twilight Psalm II: Walking Distance (1999), 16mm, sound, color, 23 min
Will Hindle
Chinese Firedrill (1968), 16mm, 25 min
Billabong (1968), 16mm, 9 min
Saint Flournoy Lobos-Logos and the Eastern Europe Fetus Taxing Japan Brides in West Coast Places Sucking Alabama Air (1970), 16mm, 12 min
Seth Troyer
Vertigo II (2024), video, 30 min
Soda Jerk
Hello Dankness (2022), video, 70 min
Season 6 (2022–2023)
David Brooks
The Wind Is Driving Him Toward the Open Sea (1968), 16mm, color, sound, 52 min
Nightspring Daystar (1964), 16mm, color, sound, 18 min
Krümel
Intermediate Klangkörper (2019), video, color, sound, 7 min
Jacob Trombetta
Hedy Lamarr (2022), video, color, sound, 4 min
Diane (18 months) (2022), video, color, sound, 5 min
Roger Beebe
Home Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry (2021), 4 x 16mm, 10 min
Amazonia (2019), live-narrated desktop cinema, 25 min
de rerum natura (2019), 3 x 16mm & cell phone video, 18 min
The Comic Sans Video (2018), desktop cinema, 8 min
Lineage (for Norman McLaren) (2019), 4 x 16mm, 15 min
Babette Mangolte
There? Where? (1979), 16mm, color, sound, 8 min
The Sky on Location (1982), 16mm, color, sound, 78 min
Edward Owens
Tomorrow’s Promise (1967), 16mm, sound, 45 min
Remembrance: A Portrait Study (1967), 16mm, sound, 6 min
Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts (1968–70), 16mm, silent, 12 min
Mindaugas Račkaitis
Spiral (2023), video, color, sound, 22 min
Season 5 (2019–2020)
Dada and Surrealism on Film: Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling, Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy, René Clair & Francis Picabia, Man Ray
Hans Richter
Rhythm 23 (1923), 16mm, sound, 3 min
Filmstudie (1926), 16mm, sound, 4 min
Vormittagsspuk (Ghosts before Breakfast) (1927), 16mm, sound, 7 min
Viking Eggeling
Symphonie diagonale (1924), 16mm, silent, 8 min
Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy
Ballet mécanique (1924), 16mm, sound, 20 min
René Clair & Francis Picabia
Entr'acte (1924), video transfer from 35mm, sound, 22 min
Man Ray
Emak Bakia (1926), video transfer from 35mm, sound, 19 min
L’étoile de mer (Starfish) (1928), 16mm, silent, 21 min
Chris Kennedy
Simultaneous Contrast (2008), 16mm, color, silent, 5:5 min
Tamalpais (2009), 16mm, color, sound, 14 min
Genesee (2011), 16mm, color, silent, 3 min
One Roll in the Blackness (2011), 16mm, b&w, sound, 3 min
Towards a Vanishing Point (2012), 16mm, color, silent, 8 min
Brimstone Line (2013), 16mm, color, sound, 10 min
Watching the Detectives (2017), 16mm, color, silent, 36 min
Janie Geiser
Arbor (2012), 16mm to digital video, color, sound, 8 min
The Hummingbird Wars (2014), digital video, color, sound, 11 min
Cathode Garden (2015), digital video, color, sound, 8 min
Kriminalistik (2013), digital video, b&w & color, sound, 5 min
Look and Learn (2017), digital video, color, sound, 11:15 min
Fluorescent Girl (2018), digital video, color, sound, 1:5 min
Flowers of the Sky (2016), digital video, color, sound, 9:12 min
Reverse Shadow (2019), digital video, 8 min
Valeria Street (2018), digital video, 11 min
Jodie Mack
The Grand Bizarre (2018), 16mm transfer to video, color, sound, 61 min
Hoarders without Boarders 1.0 (2018), 16mm transfer to video, color, silent, 5 min
Rew
A Rainy Day in Maine (2019), animated music video, color, sound, 3 min
Specimens of Ephemeral Worlds (2018), animated video, color, sound, 4 min
Amateur Hour (2019), animated music video, color, sound, 6 min
Perceptual Stream (2013), animated video, color, sound, 10 min
Kenneth Anger
Puce Moment (1949), 16mm, color, sound, 6:5 min
Eaux D’Artifice (1953), 16mm, color, sound, 13 min
Scorpio Rising (1963), 16mm, color, sound, 29 min
Jennifer Court
Paperlight (2019), video, color, sound, 2 min
Microscapes (2020), video, color, sound, 5 min
Mask-Faced Media – Curated by Minus Plato (Richard Fletcher), with Layla Muchnik-Benali and Sair Goetz
Sair Goetz
Hold Yr Tongue (2017–2020), five videos, color, sound, 10 min
Abbe Leigh Fletcher
Railwaywomen (2018), video, color, sound, 5 min
Cameron Granger
This Must Be the Place (2018), video, color, sound, 5 min
Rheim Alkadhi
The Eye Theatre Closes Its Doors, and Opens Them Again (2015), video, color, sound, 12 min
Andreas Angelidakis
Iolas (2014), video, color, sound, 9 min
Ross Birrell
Criollo (2017), video, color, sound, 7 min
Eva Stefani
Manuscript (2017), video, color, sound, 12 min
Nathan Pohio
Ngā Ringa Toi o Tahu (2017), video, color, sound, 12 min
Sky Hopinka
Fainting Spells (2018), video, color, sound, 11 min
Caroline Monnet
Tshiuetin (2016), video, b/w, sound, 11 min
Mark Salvatus
Blue Moon (2019), video, color, sound, 10 min
Layla Muchnik-Benali
waving goodbye to the sun (ongoing project), video, color, sound, variable length
Season 4 (2018–2019)
Joseph Bernard
Icon (1978), Super 8 (digital transfer), 5:32 min
Crematorium: A Collaborative Self-Portrait (1979), Super 8 (digital transfer), 8:16 min
Eye Reels (1980), Super 8 (digital transfer), 16:17 min
Semblance: Frampton Brakhage Relation (1981), Super 8 (digital transfer), 5:21 min
Her Moves (1985), Super 8 (digital transfer), 19:35 min
Full Circle (It’s Always Been Around) (1994), Super 8 (digital transfer), 14:56 min
Jodie Mack
Let Your Light Shine (2013), 16mm, 3 min
Glistening Thrills (2013), 16mm, 8 min
Something Between Us (2015), 16mm, 9:30 min
Wasteland No. 1: Ardent, Verdant (2017), 16mm, 4:30 min
G. S. Schray
Some Baffled Stranger (2017), video, 3:50 min
Cut Grass #1 (2018), video, 2:22 min
Hour Here Hour There (2018), video, 4:00 min
Strange Angel (2015), video, 1:23 min
Collector With Item (2018), video, 2:11 min
Richard Tuohy & Dianna Barrie
Blending and Blinding (2018), 16mm, 11 min
Blue Line Chicago (2014), 16mm, 10 min
Pancoran (2017), 16mm, 9 min
Crossing (2016), 16mm, 11 min
Last Train (2016), 16mm, 12 min
China not China (2018), 16mm, 14 min
Dot Matrix (2013), dual 16mm projectors, 22 min
Naomi Uman
Leche (1998), video transfer from 16mm, 30 min
Removed (2000), 16mm, 6 min
Private Movie (2000), 16mm, 6 min
Hand Eye Coordination (2002), 16mm, 10 min
Pete Bach
Click Here (Live performance 2018), visual-audio multimedia, variable length
Humanoma (Live performance 2018), visual-audio multimedia, variable length
STEEL CITY CINEMA: Michael Maraden, Christopher Smalley, Ross Nugent
Michael Maraden
Feedback #3 (2012), video, color, sound, 3 min
Atari Garble #1 (2013), video, color, sound, 4 min
Pole Position (Atari Garble #3) (2013), video, color, sound, 2 min
Se Mama Sa (2012), video, color, sound, 4 min
Selected Keanu Haiku (2018), video, color, sound, 3 min
Reefrackshun (2015), video, color, sound, 7 min
Alternative Refracts (2018), HD video, color, sound, 5 min
Self Portrait in Pixelvision w/ Ceiling Fan (2018), video, b/w, sound, 6 min
Caribe (2019), video, color, sound, 5 min
Christopher Smalley
Pittsburgh Filmmakers (2018), video, color, sound, 10 min
Ross Nugent
Tear it up, Son! (2011), Super-16 transferred to HD, b/w, sound, 9 min
Steel Mill Rolling (2014), 16mm, color, sound, 12 min
WaterFire Sharon (work-in-progress) (2014–), video, color, sound, 6 min
Spillway Study/Carpe Diez (2009), 16mm x 3, b/w + color gels, live performance, sound, 8 min
Leslie Thornton
Peggy and Fred in Hell: The Prologue (1985), video transfer from 16mm, b/w, sound, 19 min
Peggy and Fred and Pete (1988), video, b/w & sepia, sound, 23 min
Another Worldly (1999), video, b/w, sound, 22 min
Avery Duff
Neighbors (2019), digital video, color, sound, 30 min
Harry Smith
Early Abstractions (1946), 16mm, color, sound, 23 min
Heaven and Earth Magic (1962), 16mm, color & b/w, sound, 66 min
William E. Jones
America, Hail Satan (2015), 2-screen video projection with live narration, color & b/w, 12 min
Fall into Ruin (2017), HD video, color, sound, 30 min
I’m Open to Anything (2019), book reading, 6–8 min
Jonathan Schwartz
Animals Moving to the Sound of Drums (2013), 16mm, color, sound, 8 min
A Mystery Inside of a Fact (2016), 16mm, color, sound, 17 min
The Crack Up (2017), digital, color, sound, 18 min
A Leaf is the Sea is a Theater (2017), digital, color, sound, 17 min
Season 3 (2017–2018)
Laida Lertxundi
Footnotes to a House of Love (2007), 16mm,
13 min
Cry When it Happens / Llora Cuando Te Pase (2010), 16mm, 14 min
025 Sunset Red (2016), 16mm, 14 min
Roger Beebe
Recycled Cinema, a multi-projector performance including the following films:
TB TX DANCE (2006), 2x16mm, 2.5 min
The Strip Mall Trilogy (2001), Super 8mm, 9 min
[sic] series (2014), 16mm, 5 min
AAAAA Motion Picture (2010), 2x16mm, 12 min
Beginnings: Alpha/Omega (2010/rev. 2011), digital audio, 5:15 min
Money Changes Everything (2009/rev. 2011), 3x16mm, 5 min
Historia Calamitatum (The Story of My Misfortunes), Part II: The Crying Game (2014), HD video, 21 min
William E. Jones
Model Workers (2014), HD video, 12:32 min
A Great Way of Life (2015), HD video, 7:02 min
Actual T. V. Picture (2013), video, 7 min
Psychic Driving (2014), video, 14:30 min
Discrepancy (2017), HD video, 9:36 min
Larry Jordan
Duo Concertants (1964), 16mm, 9 min
Hamfat Asar (1965), 16mm, 13 min
Our Lady of the Sphere (1969), 16mm, 10 min
Cornell, 1965 (1978), 16mm, 7 min
Visible Compendium (1991), 16mm, 17 min
Mark Hughes
Stag (2016), 8mm/digital, 5 min
Cosmic (2017), 16mm found/altered film, 3.5 min
Mary Platz Hughes
EO (2016), digital, 1 min
What? I Wanted Something To Do! (2016), digital, 3 min
Keep Moving (2016), digital, 6 min
Hollis Frampton
Zorns Lemma (1970), 16mm, 60 min
Lemon (1969), 16mm, 7 min
Palindrome (1969), 16mm, 22 min
Rose Lowder
Bouquets 1–10 (1994–1995), 16mm, 12 min
Bouquets 11–20 (2005–2009), 16mm, 14 min
Rue des Teinturiers (1979), 16mm, 32 min
Couleurs mécaniques (1973), 16mm, 16 min
Roulement, Rouerie, Aubage (1978), 16mm,
15 min
Sky Hopinka
Visions of an Island (2016), video, 15 min
wawa (2014), video, 6 min
Jáaji Approximately (2015), video, 7:36 min
Venite et Loquamur (2015), video, 12 min
Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary (2017), video, 13 min
I’ll Remember You as You Were, Not as What You’ll Become (2016), video, 12:32 min
Dislocation Blues (2017), video, 17 min
Chick Strand
Soft Fiction (1979), 16mm, 54 min
Peggy Ahwesh
From Romance to Ritual (1985), video, 20 min
Stephanie Barber
In the Jungle (2017), video, 63 min
3 Peonies (2017), 16mm, 3 min
The Parent Trap (2017), 16mm, 3 min
The Forrest Is Offended (2017), 16mm, 2 min
Bruce Baillie
Castro Street (1966), 16mm, 10 min
Valentin De Las Sierras (1968), 16mm, 10 min
Quick Billy (1970), 16mm, 56 min
Season 2 (2016–2017)
Paul Clipson
Absteigend (2012), Super 8mm, 7 min
Union (2010), Super 8mm, 14 min
Another Void (2013), Super 8mm, 10 min
Landscape Dissolves (2012), Super 8mm, 6 min
Other States (2013), Super 8mm, 7 min
Bright Mirror (2013), Super 8mm, 9 min
The Liquid Casket / Wilderness of Mirrors (2014), 16mm, 7.5 min
Made of Air (2014), 16mm, 11 min
Lighthouse (2015), 16mm, 5 min
Kasumi
Shockwaves (2014), video, 82 min
Mary Helena Clark
Various short films (2008–2015), 16mm & digital, total 60 min
Nathaniel Dorsky
Song and Solitude (2006), 16mm, 21 min
Maya Deren
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), 16mm, 14 min
The Witch’s Cradle (1943), 16mm, 12 min
Meditations on Violence (1948), 16mm, 13 min
Kara Gut
Wayshrines I, II & III (An Avatar Manifesto) (2016), digital, 24 min
Peter Hutton
Skagafjordur (2004), 16mm, 33 min
In Titan’s Goblet (1991), 16mm, 10 min
Manuela De Laborde
As Without So Within (2016), 16mm, 24 min
Jerome Hiler
In the Stone House (2012), 16mm, 35 min
Gov Naim
Shame on Everyone, VHS/cassette/mixer (live performance), variable length
Madeline Anderson
I Am Somebody (1969), 16mm, 30 min
Charles Burnett
When It Rains (1995), 16mm, 13 min
Cauleen Smith
Chronicles of a Lying Spirit (By Kelly Gabron) (1992), 16mm, 6.5 min
Sine at the Canyon and Sine at the Sea (By Kelly Gabron) (2016), video, 7 min
Frances Bodomo
Afronauts (2014), video, 14 min
Kevin Jerome Everson
Brown and Clear (2017), video, 4:37 min
Ten Five in the Grass (2012), video, 35 min
Rita Larson’s Boy (2012), video, 10:53 min
Three Quarters (2015), video, 4:37 min
IFO, video
Stan Brakhage
Window Water Baby Moving (1959), 16mm, 12 min
Anticipation of the Night (1958), 16mm, 42 min
Rian Brown-Orso
Presence of Water (1999), video, 27 min
Into the Scrum (2012), video, 16 min
Death of the Moth (2003), video, 15 min
The Settler (2002), video, 15 min
Season 1 (2015–2016)
Nathaniel Dorsky
Pneuma (1977–1983), 16mm, 28 min
The Return (2011), 16mm, 27 min
Seth Troyer
Seeds - Phase Orange (2013), video, 23 min
Ken Jacobs
Seeking the Monkey King (2011), video (Blu-ray), 40 min
Mark Hughes
OOH AHH (1986), 16mm, 9 min
Sylvia Schedelbauer
Sea of Vapors (2014), digital video, 15 min
Sounding Glass (2011), digital video, 10 min
Way Fare (2009), digital video, 6.5 min
Avery Duff
Home Videos Something (1986), digital, 15 min
Blake Williams
Something Horizontal (2015), 3D anaglyph, 10min
Red Capriccio, 3D anaglyph, 7 min
Baby Blue, 3D anaglyph, 10 min
Many a Swan (2012), 3D anaglyph, 6 min
Pete Bach
Dramathon (2015), digital video, 20 min
Deborah Stratman
O’er The Land (2009), 16mm, 52 min
Boaz Bair
Problem Dennis (2014), digital video, 5 min
Lewis Klahr
The Pettifogger (2011), digital video, 65 min
G. S. Schray
One Sad Touch (2016), digital video, 5 min
Merv At The Nexus (2015), digital video, 4 min
Big Bopper's Final Performance (2014), digital video, 3 min
Michael Snow
Wavelength (1967), 16mm, 45 min
Mary Platz Hughes
Mary's Tango (2010), video, 2:31min
You Are the Cutest One (2012), video, 4:45 min
Spazzy Car (2013), video, 1:28min
Color Holes (2013), video, 1:40 min
Fall Out Brain (2014), video, 1:20 min
Charlotte Pryce
Discoveries on the Forest Floor (2007), 16mm, 4 min
The Parable of the Tulip Painter and the Fly (2008), 16mm, 4 min
Looking Glass Insects (2013), 16mm, 3 min
Curious Light (2011), 16mm 4 min
A Study in Natural Magic (2013), 16mm, 3 min
Prima Materia (2015), 16mm 3 min
Bruce Checefsky
Witch's Cradle (2014), digital, 10:22 min
Bela (2010), 35mm, 5:43 min
Moment Musical (2006), 16mm, 5:43 min
In Ni (Others) (2005), Beta, 20:43 min
A Woman and Circles (2004), 35mm, 9:38 min
Pharmacy (2001), 35mm, 4:36 min
Peter Tscherkassky
Outer Space (1999), 35mm, 10 min
Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine (2005), 35mm, 17 min
Robert Banks
MPG: Motion Picture Genocide (1997), 35mm
A.W.O.L. (2005), 35mm
Goldfish and Sunflowers (1999), 35mm
Embryonic (1999), 35mm
Outlet (1999), 35mm
Jenniffer Omaitz
Eyegasm (2002), 35mm, 1 min