Phill Niblock Movies

  • 1986
    Combat Shock

    Combat Shock

    Combat Shock

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

    Combat Shock
  • 2016
    Lapses, Regrets and Qualms

    Lapses, Regrets and Qualms

    Lapses, Regrets and Qualms

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    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...

    Lapses, Regrets and Qualms
  • 1980
    The Lobotomy

    The Lobotomy

    The Lobotomy

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    Asylum inmate dreams of freedom before medial reality steps in.

    The Lobotomy
  • 1975
    Mozart in Love

    Mozart in Love

    Mozart in Love

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    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...

    Mozart in Love
  • 1966
    The Magic Sun

    The Magic Sun

    The Magic Sun

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    Multi-faceted artist Phil Niblock captures a brief moment of an interstellar communication by the Arkestra in their prime. Black turns white in a...

    The Magic Sun
  • 1972
    T H I R

    T H I R

    T H I R

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    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...

    T H I R
  • 1969
    Annie

    Annie

    Annie

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

    Annie
  • 1988
    Terrace of Unintelligibility

    Terrace of Unintelligibility

    Terrace of Unintelligibility

    01988HD

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

    Terrace of Unintelligibility
  • 2020
    6 Hours of Music and Film

    6 Hours of Music and Film

    6 Hours of Music and Film

    02020HD

    As the longest night of the year unfolds and the journey of our planet nears the point when Winter commences in the Northern Hemisphere, Phill...

    6 Hours of Music and Film
  • 1968
    Trio Film

    Trio Film

    Trio Film

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    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....

    Trio Film
  • 1973
    Armand Schwerner

    Armand Schwerner

    Armand Schwerner

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

    Armand Schwerner
  • 1969
    Line

    Line

    Line

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

    Line
  • 1967
    Children

    Children

    Children

    01967HD

    Children play. First shown normally, then shown in reverse.

    Children
  • 2015
    Timepiece/Maize

    Timepiece/Maize

    Timepiece/Maize

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    A 30 minute extreme close-up long take of the flow of sand trickling from the upper to the lower glass chamber of and hourglass to Phill Niblock's...

    Timepiece/Maize
  • 2017
    Ice-Out

    Ice-Out

    Ice-Out

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    A 59 minute extreme close-up long take of ice cubes slowly melting until they become just water in a stainless steel sink to Phill Niblock's...

    Ice-Out
  • 1969
    Dog Track

    Dog Track

    Dog Track

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    Dog Track (1969) : For Dogtrack a deeply unsettling, bestiality-themed found text is read aloud with alarming detachment by Barbara Porte while...

    Dog Track
  • 1984
    Brazil 84

    Brazil 84

    Brazil 84

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    "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...

    Brazil 84
  • 1975
    Hannah Weiner

    Hannah Weiner

    Hannah Weiner

    01975HD

    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...

    Hannah Weiner
  • 1988
    CHINA '88

    CHINA '88

    CHINA '88

    01988HD

    The series of films ‘The Movement of People Working’ portrays human labor in its most elementary form. Shot by Niblock between 1973-91,...

    CHINA '88
  • 1988
    Some Imaginary Far Away Type Things a.k.a. Lost in the Meshes

    Some Imaginary Far Away Type Things a.k.a. Lost in the Meshes

    Some Imaginary Far Away Type Things a.k.a. Lost in the Meshes

    01988HD

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

    Some Imaginary Far Away Type Things a.k.a. Lost in the Meshes