Bill Creston

Snippets of New York City caught during Creston’s 15 years as a NYC cab driver, with scenes scripted and edited, and some actual dialogue recorded, with performances by Bill Creston, Barbara Rosenthal, Richard Miller, Lorraine Schanzer, and others. Original soundtrack and song “Taxi-Taxi” by Bill Creston.

In "PREGNANCY DREAMS" Barbara Rosenthal, nude and nine months pregnant, reads from her Journal dreams of filthy bathrooms, impeccably clothed men, and other parallels. Originally shot in Super-8 film by Bill Creston (seen nude in the mirror with his camera on this very hot August day) as tests of filmstocks for his recording of the birth and subsequent film "OLA: A FILM BY HER FATHER", "PREGNANCY DREAMS" was greeted by calls of outrage when premiered at BACA (The Brooklyn Arts and Cultural Association) in 1979, but digitally remastered in 2005, it has gained an increasingly receptive audience through the years. By Barbara Rosenthal (1975, Super-8/DVD NTSC, 4 mins., color & B&W, sound)

Four brief funny scenes based on real events in this absurdist auteur cineaste’s life. Video and Super-8 pioneer Bill Creston acts as well as directs

"Open 7 Days a Week, 24 Hours a Day" is a 15-minute Super-8 color and BW sound film composed of segments shot in New York City during the bicentennial year, 1976, depicting the city at its silliest, most patriotic and most masculine-conscious public time. Preston alternates brief scripted scenes of songs and thoughts, fictionalized encounters and news items with the street footage, much of which was shot from his own window overlooking Avenue of the Americas at 24th St. His own cast of characters intermingles with the characters on the street for a full view of the city's life.

An experimental documentation of Barbara Rosenthal's pregnancy and the birth of Ola Creston, as filmed by Ola's father.

Video autobiography from age six to thirteen. Scenes and narrative shot on location, ending with a video transfer of the actual 16mm film footage of the artist's elaborate wartime Bar Mitzvah.

A film consisting primarily of rapid segments shot in and around New York City with original music and sound usually cut in equal length to each image. The principal subject of the film is New York street culture: birds, dogs, transportation, derelicts, pedestrians and seamy life, intercut with a very few fragments of nature, indoor and simple subjects. Each sound has been written as dialogue or collected from the radio or produced on synthesizer to accompany each image and establish attitude: amusement, amazement, contrast, bewilderment, humor, absurdity.

4 Super-8 Film Short-Shorts. PEANUT BUTTER, WATER, STARS, EXECUTION, and THE EXECUTION. The master absurdist Bill Creston acts as well as directs, with his usual ensemble cast.

Segments of quick images from city and country, with original improvised diaglog.

Super-8 movie of footage shot in and around New York City in its grittiest days, with collaged audio track of bits of found sound, ambient sound, scripted dialog and original Moog synthesizer sound.

In this short absurdist narrative, casting himself once again as an elderly derelict approached by a passerby. Creston explores conventionality and unconventionality, need and desire, pride and the human condition.

A video portrait of artist, madman and street entrepreneur Denham Arthur Oswald Kelsey, III.