Ross Lipman
2021Notfilm
Ross Lipman
Ross Lipman, Leonard Maltin
NOTFILM is a feature-length experimental essay on FILM -- its author Samuel Beckett, its star Buster Keaton, its production and its philosophical implications -- utilizing additional outtakes, never before heard audio recordings of the production meetings, and other rare archival elements.
Notfilm
The Case Of The Vanishing Gods
Ross Lipman
Jeff Dorchen, Audrey Densmore
A cultural history of ventriloquism disguised as a sci-fi TV series, integrating live actors with vintage and artist-made puppets. The Case of the Vanishing Gods is a fiction-doc hybrid that traces the phenomenon of ‘throwing voices’ from the oracles of ancient Greece to the spectacle of the modern horror film, and pushes the essay film into exciting new territory.
The Case Of The Vanishing Gods
Rhythm 06
Ross Lipman
Carolyn Roy
Filmed in a decaying housing estate in east London, "Rhythm 06" renders the outer trappings of internal collapse, a choreography of layers of the real. This new reworking of "Rhythm 93" transposes Michael Whitmore's ethereal score for 10-string guitar and overtones on Carolyn Roy's original riveting hypernaturalist performance.
Rhythm 06
The Interview
Ross Lipman
Lisa Black, Julie Queen
Two women meet at a crossroads... A chance encounter between two women struggling to stay afloat, in an era of the downsizing of dreams. Ross Lipman's one fiction film to date comes from a genre even more rare in the US than experimental work-adult drama. Printed in muted tones that conjure silent film hand-painting, and merging theater-based naturalism with an elliptical psychological encounter, "The Interview" at once utilizes and destroys mainstream narrative expectations.
The Interview
Casa Loma
Ross Lipman
Casa Loma was the unfinished dream mansion of Canadian industrial magnate Henry Pellatt. A self-made millionaire, Pellatt was derided by fellow aristocrats for nouveau-riche pretentions: the house and its décor considered by many an ornate fake. Its original contents were sold at Pellatt’s bankruptcy auction in 1924. Today the building is a museum. The movie has three sections—the first in a cellar tunnel, the next in a first-story workroom near the stables, the third in the tower’s summit.
Casa Loma
The Exploding Digital Inevitable
Ross Lipman
THE EXPLODING DIGITAL INEVITABLE is a live documentary essay integrating an array of movie and audio clips, still photographs, and rare archival documents that tells the story of CROSSROADS' unique production, as well as the massive cultural spectacle of the original Bikini Atoll tests themselves--the singlemost recorded event in human history.
The Exploding Digital Inevitable
The Cropping of the Spectacle
Ross Lipman
In this live cinema essay, Ross Lipman investigates the birth of the Television Spectacle. Based loosely on the classic anarchist documentary POINT OF ORDER! (a film which at once deconstructed the hearings and re-invented documentary form), the performance integrates archival movie and audio clips in chronicling the strange evolution of our understanding of McCarthy's America. The original film and its many revisions ultimately reveal an odd continuation of a hegemonic framing process begun with the original Army hearings which continues to the present day.
The Cropping of the Spectacle