Movies: Phill Niblock

A dangerously disturbed Vietnam veteran struggles with life 15 years after his return home, and slowly falls into insanity from his gritty urban lifestyle....

Asylum inmate dreams of freedom before medial reality steps in....

A blond woman (Susan Marshall) in white pants and shirt interacts with a moving round object and the camera. Camerawork by Phill Niblock....

A day in the life of director Boris Lehman: he wanders from cafe to bookshop, cinema to museum, writer to musician, and into the storeroom of the film archive... He celebrates his birthday in an alleyway, with a friend, and finishes his journey with ...

An irreverent take on Mozart's relations with the three Weber sisters: Louisa, whom he loved, but who didn't love him; Constanza, whom he loved and married; and Sophie, who loved him but whom he didn't love. An anthology of arias from Mozart's operas...

Multi-faceted artist Phil Niblock captures a brief moment of an interstellar communication by the Arkestra in their prime. Black turns white in a so-called negative post-process, while Niblock's camera focuses on microscopic details of hands, bodies ...

Annie (1969) : 'Annie' is Niblock's portrait of the dancer Ann Danoff set to the soundtrack of a concrète collage by Max Neuhaus....

Unedited concert footage of Arthur Russell playing at Experimental Intermedia Foundation on September 22 and October 27, 1985....

Original 16mm footage was filmed on location in China, mostly in the mountains around the city of Luding. At 33:15, the locale switches to the environs of Shanghai, the area around the delta of the Yangtze River. At 38:00, the location is the vicinit...

"In 1984, I returned to Brazil, deciding to travel the coast, closest to the ocean, from Salvador, Bahia, to as far north as I could get in the time I had. That turned out to be Natal, 1000km away. I was the sole film crew, carrying the camera bag an...

A compilation of non-narrative films shot in the 1970s and 1980s by Phill Niblock concerned with the movement people make when they do menial tasks....

A 46 minute extreme close-up long take of a knife point counting grains of white rice, one by one, on a white surface, to the orchestra piece "One Large Rose"....

A short film by Niblock which consists simply of Armand Schwermer reading from his epic poem The Tablets with commentary, while strolling about in front of a Staten Island cityscape......

Another short film by Niblock which consists simply of Hannah Weiner reading from one of her texts, initially in close-up and then over footage of her in her office and then in her armchair.....

Unedited concert footage of Arthur Russell playing at Experimental Intermedia Foundation on September 22 and October 27, 1985....

Two nudes, a man and a woman, interact with each other and a large balloon in a white living room. Performed by Steve Paxton and Becky Arnold. Camerawork by Phill Niblock....

Dog Track (1969) : For Dogtrack a deeply unsettling, bestiality-themed found text is read aloud with alarming detachment by Barbara Porte while Niblock intercuts between static location shots of urban and natural locations....

Original 16mm footage was shot on location in central New York within a 100 mile radius of the town of Clinton. Converted to NTSC video using a Rank Cintel scanner....

Morning begins with performers dressing and preparing for their day to the accompaniment of clashing male and female internal monologues, and subsequently depicts various characters going about their daily business while we listen in on their thought...

T H I R is taken from "Ten Hundred Inch Radii" an intermedia performance of film and music (1972-1975). Filmed with a Beaulieu 16 mm around Keene Valley, New York in the Adirondak Mountains in 1971-1972. T H I R original soundtrack recorded in 1972...