Ira Schneider

Absurdist pseudo-documentary.

Godard to come to the University California, San Diego to give a lecture. He stayed at our house at the beach. Some filmmakers and creatives came to visit him. They all stayed at our house on the beach. Guests were Heiner Müller, Wim Wenders, Martin Milner, Jim Mc Bride, Tom Luddy and other.

"Comprises film and videotape from the August (1969) epic freak-out in New York State (White Lake- "Woodstock") with all the groups you can name, and a cast of half a million. Unlike the Rolling Stones films shown on British television, this is full-color and the techniques are more imaginative and acid-based than the Stones film, good as that was." – Alex Gross, London "International Times." Selected for the Montreal International Festival of Film in 16mm at the Museé des Beaux Arts; the Encounter With The American Cinema at Sorrento, Italy, 1970 (Selection of Martin Scorcese); and the Museum of Modern Art in Paris American Underground Film Weekend. Silent version premiered in 1969, accompanied by video and light show, in the extended opening program of Global Village in New York City.

In Manhattan, garbage pickup requires cars to be moved each night to the alternate side of the street. This video describes the intricate rules & penalties during a frantic comic search for a valid parking space for the following day. The host Happy Parker introduces the rules and searches for space.

A mutual venture of a most inordinate sort. Vaguely a mistake, but fun at that.

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“The Ghost of Wittgenstein”, “I’d Rather be Half Right Than Vice President” alongside “Lost in Cudilhy” form that experimental trifecta of experimental or just plain mental art movies known as “The Charlotteruse with the Medal of the Wobbling Bubble in its Palm Trilogy”. Restored in 2017 comprise an essential 16MM restoration project by producer / director Ira Schneider, who is the undisputed master of the experimental doc genre as well as being the unsung founder of video art. They are to be re-released at the Prada Fondazione in Milan and Paris Independent Film Festival 2017. Restoration producer is Claudine Biswas-MacKenzie MA.

Raindance's Media Primers reflect the group's iconoclastic theories of television and video, and their engagement with alternative and mass media, pop culture and the counter-culture. The themes addressed - media manipulation, the camera's role in modifying individual behavior - illustrate their experiments with the technological and conceptual underpinnings of 1/2-inch portable video.

A comic robbery at a laundromat with pistol while his cohort steals from the washing maschines, hostages and a superhero conveniently doing his laundry.

"The Ghost of Wittgenstein", "I'd Rather be Half Right Than Vice President" alongside "Lost in Cudilhy" form that experimental trifecta of experimental or just plain mental art movies known as "The Charlotteruse with the Medal of the Wobbling Bubble in its Palm Trilogy". Restored in 2017 comprise an essential 16MM restoration project by producer / director Ira Schneider, who is the undisputed master of the experimental doc genre as well as being the unsung founder of video art. They are to be re-released at the Prada Fondazione in Milan and Paris Independent Film Festival 2017. Restoration producer is Claudine Biswas-MacKenzie MA.

A documentation of the seminal video art show by Ira Schneider edited in 1984.

Ira Schneider

An experimental, non-narrative film and an information collage of experiences in America of the middle 1960. Juxtaposed are the worlds of politics, anti-Vietnam war protests, the Rock`n Roll scene, and transcendental meditational influences from Asia.