Dick Higgins

Fluxfilm Anthology 1962-1970

Mike Parr, Owen Land

Feature-length compilation program presenting 37 out of 41 original fluxfilms produced and directed in the 1960s by Fluxus artists, including George Maciunas, Nam June Paik, Yoko Ono, Robert Watts, Paul Sharits, et al.

Invocations of Canyons and Boulders (for Stan Brakhage)

Dick Higgins

"INVOCATION is Higgins' Satie movie... the purest attempt to clear art from any or all historical, esthetic, thematic, ornamental claptrap to regain the lost-eye consciousness." - Jonas Mekas

Dance

Albert Fine

Dick Higgins

"Face Smiling. Hammering a brick. CU of an ear (moving?). Face twitching. Dancing on one leg. Rolls, twitches on the floor. Boxes the wall."

Mysteries

Dick Higgins

A double murder is committed–presumably. A sleepwalker is unaware where she is going or what the consequences of her actions are–presumably. The law investigates–presumably. Nothing is solved, or is it? Is there a suicide at the end? More mysterious than narrative. –D. H.

The End

Dick Higgins

A satire on business. We see a distinguished business man speaking gibberish, telephone ploes being ripped down to make room for beautiful farmlands, prices tumbling. I hoped the end would justify the means. –D. H.

The Flaming City

Dick Higgins

An anti-semantic love story about a marvelous part of New York City and the people who lived there as the city is destroyed.

Scenario

Dick Higgins

The scenario for what might have been quite a beautiful films is projected as a text. In between the blocks of text, two small girls romp, as if from another movie altogether. –D. H.

Hank and Mary Without Apologies

Dick Higgins

This film belongs to Higgins' 'hard series', meaning that the formal structure is relatively inflexible. The colors shift from the normal to their complements, producing extraordinary after-images, and this is done to a pulse by means of over 3000 splices to the films. The sound is from a tape recording of the Ray Gun Specs at the Judson Church in 1960, and in which Higgins was one of the featured Happenings artists. –D. H.