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"REM" - Vintage surrealist film 1976, 16mm VHS relic (Stephen Bowlsby)
About this film
A surrealist dream... Inside a burnt-out church, rain spatters on the balcony, burnt-out rafters arch above, and the floor sags below. The stain-glass window to the side is an advertisement for travel on a salvation spaceship to the planet Artin Seven... Timing the Difference Between Good and Bad: The clown conducts a chemistry experiment on a balloon dog... Operating on a hotdog: the Surgeon's Assistant is also the Master of Ceremonies... The dreamer awakes and finds a parking meter in his bedroom. Made while a full-time science student at the University of British Columbia in 1976. Film stock financed by a $1000 inheritance from grandmother Bowlsby, and using equipment available during an elective arts course in film production. Awarded First prize (post-secondary) and "Best of Show" in the 8th Annual British Columbia Student Film Festival, 1976 Dreamer: Dave Noga. Professor: Dr. Meyer Bloom (Physics UBC). Clown: Rob Weber. Murderer: Gerry Pokroy. Magician's Assistant: Leslie Clough. Friend at start: Jeff Jones. Music and vocals: Bruce Jennings ARTIST STATEMENT (2000) "The transformations of context and visual/spatial relationships seen in Transfigured (1998) and Vision Point (19…
Directors & creators
Stephen Arthur Bowlsby [Stephen X. Arthur]
Subjects
outsider art, naïve art, untrained, surreal, dream, deteriorated, relic, vintage, ethnographic, artifact, memorial, legacy, antique, obsolete, independent film, 1970s, surrealist film, experimental film, 16mm, 16 mm, telecine VHS transfer, image loss, restored, student film, Vancouver, Canada, Stephen Bowlsby, Stephen Arthur; Stephen X. Arthur, visionary film
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