David Blair

Wax, or The Discovery of Television Among the Bees

David Blair

David Blair, Father Bessarion

Computer programmer/beekeeper Jacob gets a "television" implanted in his brain by a race of telekinetic bees, which causes him to experience severe hallucinations.

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Dušan Makavejev, Ane Mette Ruge

Judi Martin Clark, Lis Dam

Despite its suggestive title, this multi-part Danish omnibus film is not a work of exploitation. Instead, it presents 20 different short films (back-to-back) on the general theme of Danish women, directed by filmmakers including Krzysztof Zanussi, Monika Treut, Gustav Hamos, David Blair, Vibeke Vogel, Dusan Makavejev, Morten Skallerud and Lars Norgaard. Some dramatic vignettes mix with other comedic ones, but all are offbeat and experimental. The picture includes one animated sequence (by Norgaard).

The First Movie on the Internet: Volumes [A] [B] [C] [D]

David Blair

David Blair

On May 23rd, 1993, "Wax or The Discovery of Television Among The Bees" entered the internet, projected by a cable into a wall. Inside that internet, there are no movies there, and so Wax, waiting until the last frame enters the wall, then begins The First Movie on the Internet, to continue forever, for that is how The First Movie on the Internet begins, at the first frame after the last frame. A true story! And this is that movie, and in reverse. Initially announced as 4 individual movies in an email, but since announced as a single 6:45 feature in a Facebook post.

Finding the Telepathic Cinema of Manchuria

David Blair

An expansive research project that takes us in a flashback to the reconstruction of a lost film production in Manchuria, the doomed epic entitled The Lost Tribes. (M HKA)

The First Movie on the Internet: Volume G [Part One]

David Blair

"Between 1995 and 1997, I lived in Tokyo, where I began to work on a movie about Manchuria. [...] Volume G is the beginning of that movie from then, set in a place that the Communist Chinese called Fake [or Maquette] Manchuria at one time. [...] When I was younger, I had the habit of reading very long novels, liking those in a list like Murasaki or Wu or Pynchon or Herodotus or Fuentes or Blish or Sterne or Murakami, and this movie reminds me of that..." - (David Blair)

The First Movie on the Internet: Volume F

David Blair

“Volumes E + F of “The First Movie On The Internet” are now a thing,” says director David Blair in a Patreon announcement. “They are both very long, but then so is Jeopardy, or its’ precursor, the CBS Television Quiz of 1941” – Volume F is reported to have a tentative length of 24 hours!

The First Movie on the Internet: Volume A

David Blair

The first volume in a cycle of features that wrap around The Telepathic Motion Picture of the Lost Tribes.

The First Movie on the Internet: Volume E

David Blair

"Volumes E + F of "The First Movie On The Internet" are now a thing," says director David Blair in a Patreon announcement. "They are both very long, but then so is Jeopardy, or its' precursor, the CBS Television Quiz of 1941" - Volume E is reported to have a tentative length of 30 hours!

The Reverse of Deja-Vu on Television, with Slight Delay

David Blair

Penelope Wehrli

A videotape about places neither here nor there, neither there nor here.