Wheeler Dixon
2021
Serial Metaphysics
Wheeler Dixon
“Serial Metaphysics — a thirteen-minute experimental 16mm film which has been described as 'an examination of the American commercial lifestyle, recut entirely from existing television advertisements' — was edited by Dixon himself, on a single night, New Year’s Eve 1972, culled down from 72 hours of American TV commercials. The film is a fever dream as seen through our existing television advertisements, foreshadowing for hopeful future generations a promised future life of happiness and security in the land of plenty.
Serial Metaphysics
Un petit Examen, and Not So Damned Petit Either, or, The Light Shining Over the Dark
Wheeler Dixon
Columbus Boychoir School, Donald Hanson
A young boy auditions for a position in a choir academy; he is turned down. He returns home with his mother and father where the father is met with the news that his father has just died, and he must leave immediately for the funeral. Upon his arrival at his parents' home, he finds he is too late for the funeral. Later that evening, over coffee, he tries to reconcile himself with his sense of loss in a brief talk with his mother. This narrative framework serves as the jumping-off point for numerous digressions and reminiscences utilizing both "found" and originally photographed imagery.
Un petit Examen, and Not So Damned Petit Either, or, The Light Shining Over the Dark
Amazing World of Ghosts
Wheeler Dixon
Sidney Paul
Do ghosts come from outer space? Are they amongst us? The Amazing World of Ghosts seeks to unveil the mysteries that defy mankind's understanding and define the modern age… and then runs out of stock footage before getting anywhere.
Amazing World of Ghosts
Dana Can Deal
Wheeler Dixon
Saura Bartner, David Marotta
Three separate events: the birth of a litter of pups at a British reform school for delinquent minors in 1946; a dentist's convention in Cincinnati circa 1936; and common place views of New York City in the 1920s as interpreted by a visitor from Ohio.
Dana Can Deal
Numen Lumen
Wheeler Dixon
Meditations on light and a window fan for Jerry Hiler and Nick Dorsky. "Warm regards from the West Coast -- I only wish I had seen your films much sooner than I did because we are so much closer as filmmakers than I ever could have expected." - Jerome Hiler
Numen Lumen
Madagascar, or, Caroline Kennedy's Sinful Life in London
Wheeler Dixon
"This is a short film based on an incident I read in the National Enquirer, a really innocuous item about Caroline partying late at night with Erskine Guinness, the heir to the Guinness Brewery fortune. I imagined Caroline waking up the next morning, recovering from the excesses of the night before, and trying to mix some orange juice in a blender, but being so out of it that she used three cans of gin instead of water to make the concentrate into OJ. It’s an odd film; runs about 1:30." - Wheeler Winston Dixon
Madagascar, or, Caroline Kennedy's Sinful Life in London