DVD Releases of Experimental and Avant Garde Film & Video

DVD Releases of Experimental and Avant Garde Film & Video

The arrival of DVD has seen artists' moving image work become available in a suitably high-quality format for domestic viewing. DVD releases of artists' work are becoming more and more common. This page lists the key DVD labels (and some video labels) that have released artists' moving image work.

Most of these DVDs are available to order over the internet. Unless otherwise noted, prices do not include shipping & handling.

British Film Institute
21 Stephen Street, London W1T 1LN, UK (Tel: +44 (0) 20 7255 1444)
The British Film Institute promotes understanding and appreciation of Britain's film and television heritage and culture. They release a broad catalogue of videos and DVDs, including various experimental and avant-garde films by UK and international artists. These include silent films, themed compilations, short works by a single artist or feature length experimental works.

Typical Prices: £19.99 / DVD (£35.00 for two DVD set or £59.99 for five)

Recent DVD Releases:
The Mysterians (Ishiro Honda) • Godzilla (Ishiro Honda) • Early Charlie Chaplin films • British Transport Films • A set of 5 classic Kurasawa films • Baadasssss! (Mario Van Peebles) • Straight to Hell, Highway Patrolman and Three Businessmen (Alex Cox) • Pressure and Baldwin's Nigger (Horace Ové) • Burning an Illusion (Menelik Shabazz) • A collection of 60 short films all made before 1911 • The Rhythm of Film (Geoffrey Jones) • Looking for Langston (Isaac Julien) • Electric Edwardians (from the Mitchell & Kenyon Collection) • London and Robinson in Space (Patrick Keiller)
• Many more titles available in their Winter 2005 DVD Catalogue (download as pdf file).

The Center for Visual Music
3021 Volk Avenue, Long Beach CA 90808, USA (Tel. +1-213-683-1514)
Center for Visual Music is a nonprofit film archive dedicated to visual music, experimental animation and avant-garde media.

Typical Prices: $20.00 - $40.00 / DVD (for private home use; institutional: $100)

DVDs for sale include work by:
Jordan Belson, Berthold Bartosch, Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, Maya Deren, Scott Draves, David Ehrlich, Jim Ellis, Oskar Fischinger, Fluxus, Dwinell Grant, Barbara Hammer, Taka Iimura, Ken Jacobs, Ken Jenkins, Neli Duan Jia, David Lebrun, Len Lye, Norman McLaren, Glenn McKay, Jonas Mekas, Grant Munro, Ronald Nameth, Baerbel Neubauer, Suzan Pitt, Hans Richter, Jurgen Reble, Paul Sharits, Harry Smith, Michael Snow, George Stadnik, Emile Tobenfeld, Stan Vanderbeek and others

The Criterion Collection
New York, NY, USA
The Criterion Collection is a DVD publishing company dedicated to producing high-quality digital editions of important classic and contemporary films. The foundation of the collection is the work of such masters of cinema as Renoir, Godard, Kurosawa, Cocteau, Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky, Hitchcock, Fuller, Lean, Kubrick, Lang, Sturges, Dreyer, Eisenstein, Ozu, Sirk, Buñuel, Powell and Pressburger. The website features the bi-monthly electronic mini-magazine, In Focus. Criterion produced the pioneering DVD package By Brakage - an anthology which included 26 films by Stan Brakage -- a key figure of American experimental film.

Typical Prices: $29.95 - $39.95 / DVD
Sales are indirect, however: when you click "Buy Release" you find yourself being presented with 4 purchasing options (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, DVD Planet or Tower Records) -- and when you go there you need to re-enter the DVD information into their search to be able to buy it.

DVDs for sale include:
3 Films by Louis Malle (Louis Malle) • 3 Women (Robert Altman) • The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock) • The 400 Blows (François Truffaut) • 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini) • A Constant Forge ( Charles Kiselyak) • A Generation (Andrzej Wajda) • À Nous la Liberté (René Clair) • A Story of Floating Weeds / Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu) • A Woman Is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard) • A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes) • The Adventures of Antoine Doinel (François Truffaut) • Alexander Nevsky (Sergei Eisenstein) • Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) • All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk) • Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard) • Amarcord (Federico Fellini) • And God Created Woman (Roger Vadim) • And the Ship Sails On (Federico Fellini) • Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky) • Andrzej Wajda: Three War Films (Andrzej Wajda) • An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion) • Armageddon (Michael Bay) • Ashes and Diamonds ( Andrzej Wajda) • Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson) • Au revoir les enfants (Louis Malle) • Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman) • The Bad Sleep Well (Akira Kurosawa) • Bad Timing (Nicolas Roeg) • Ballad of a Soldier (Grigori Chukhrai) • Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard) • The Bank Dick (Edward Cline) • The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo) • Beastie Boys Video Anthology (Various) • Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau) • Bed and Board (François Truffaut) • Big Deal on Madonna Street (Mario Monicelli) • Billy Liar (John Schlesinger) • Black Narcissus (Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell) • Black Orpheus (Marcel Camus) • The Blob (Irvin Yeaworth) • Blood for Dracula (Paul Morrissey) • Blood of a Poet (Jean Cocteau) • Bob le Flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville) • Boudu Saved from Drowning (Jean Renoir) • Branded to Kill (Seijun Suzuki) • Brazil (Terry Gilliam) • The BRD Trilogy (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) • Brief Encounter (David Lean) • The Browning Version (Anthony Asquith) • Burden of Dreams (Les Blank) • by Brakhage-an anthology (Stan Brakhage) • Carl Th. Dreyer - My Métier (Torben Skjødt Jensen) • Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey) • Casque d'or (Jacques Becker) • Charade (Stanley Donen) • Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith) • The Children Are Watching Us (Vittorio De Sica) • Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné) • Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda) • Closely Watched Trains (Jirí Menzel) • The Complete Monterey Pop Festival (D.A. Pennebaker) • The Complete Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles) • Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard) • Coup de Grâce (Volker Schlondorff) • Coup de Torchon (Bertrand Tavernier) • The Cranes Are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov) • Crazed Fruit (Kô Nakahira) • Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman) • Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer) • Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg • The Devil and Daniel Webster (William Dieterle) • Diabolique (Henri-Georges Clouzot) • Diary of a Chambermaid (Luis Buñuel) • Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson) • The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel) • Divorce Italian Style (Pietro Germi) • Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee) • Double Suicide (Masahiro Shinoda) • Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch) • Dreyer Box Set (Carl Theodor Dreyer) • Early Summer (Yasujiro Ozu) • Eisenstein: The Sound Years (Sergei Eisenstein) • The Element of Crime (Lars von Trier) • Elena and Her Men (Jean Renoir) • Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle) • Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju) • F for Fake (Orson Welles) • Faces (John Cassavetes) • Fanny and Alexander Box Set (Ingmar Bergman) • Fanny and Alexander-The Television Version (Ingmar Bergman) • Fanny and Alexander-The Theatrical Version (Ingmar Bergman) • Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat) • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam) • Fiend without a Face (Arthur Crabtree) • Fighting Elegy (Seijun Suzuki) • A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman (Ingmar Bergman) • The Firemen's Ball (Milos Forman) • Fishing with John (John Lurie) • Fists in the Pocket (Marco Bellocchio) • Flesh for Frankenstein (Paul Morrissey) • The Flowers of St. Francis (Roberto Rossellini) • For All Mankind (Al Reinert) • Forbidden Games (René Clément) • French Cancan (Jean Renoir) • Gate of Flesh (Seijun Suzuki) • General Idi Amin Dada (Barbet Schroeder) • George Washington (David Gordon Green) • Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer) • Gimme Shelter (Charlotte Zwerin, David Maysles, Albert Maysles) • The Golden Coach (Jean Renoir) • Good Morning (Yasujiro Ozu) • Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir) • Great Expectations (David Lean) • Grey Gardens (Muffie Meyer, Susan Froemke, David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde) • Hamlet (Laurence Olivier) • Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi) • Hard Boiled (John Woo) • The Harder They Come (Perry Henzell) • Häxan (Benjamin Christensen) • Hearts and Minds (Peter Davis) • Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch) • Henry V (Laurence Olivier) • The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa) • High and Low (Akira Kurosawa) • Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais) • Honeymoon Killers (Leonard Kastle) • Hoop Dreams (Peter Gilbert, Steve James, Frederick Marx) • Hopscotch (Ronald Neame) • The Horse's Mouth (Ronald Neame) • How to Get Ahead in Advertising (Bruce Robinson) • I Am Curious-Blue (Vilgot Sjöman) • I Am Curious-Yellow (Vilgot Sjöman) • I Fidanzati (Ermanno Olmi) • I Know Where I'm Going! (Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell) • I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini) • Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa) • Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi) • The Importance of Being Earnest (Anthony Asquith) • In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai) • Indiscretion of an American Wife & Terminal Station (Vittorio De Sica) • Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie (Vilgot Sjöman) • Insomnia (Erik Skjoldbjærg) • Ivan the Terrible - Parts I & II (Sergei Eisenstein) • Jimi Plays Monterey & Shake! Otis at Monterey (D.A. Pennebaker) • John Cassavetes: Five Films (John Cassavetes) • Jubilee (Derek Jarman) • Jules and Jim (François Truffaut) • Juliet of the Spirits (Federico Fellini) • Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa) • Kanal (Andrzej Wajda) • Kill! (Kihachi Okamoto) • The Killer (John Woo) • The Killers (Siodmak/Siegel) • The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes) • Kind Hearts & Coronets (Robert Hamer) • The King of Kings (Cecil B. DeMille) • Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski) • Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi) • L'avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni) • L'eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni) • La bête humaine (Jean Renoir) • La commare secca (Bernardo Bertolucci) • La Strada (Federico Fellini) • Lacombe Lucien (Louis Malle) • The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges) • The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock) • The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese) • The Last Wave (Peter Weir) • Le Cercle Rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville) • Le Corbeau (Henri-Georges Clouzot) • Le Million (René Clair) • Le notti bianche (Luchino Visconti) • Le samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville) • Le Trou (Jacques Becker) • The Leopard (Luchino Visconti) • Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (Robert Bresson) • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell) • The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson) • Life of Brian - Monty Python's (Terry Jones) • Lola (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) • The Long Good Friday (John Mackenzie) • Lord of the Flies (Peter Brook) • Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff) • Love on the Run (François Truffaut) • Loves of a Blonde (Milos Forman) • The Lower Depths (Kurosawa/Renoir) • M (Fritz Lang) • M. Hulot's Holiday (Jacques Tati) • The Magic Flute (Ingmar Bergman) • Maîtresse (Barbet Schroeder) • The Making of Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman) • Mamma Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolini) • Man Bites Dog (Rémy Belvaux , André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde) • The Man Who Fell to Earth (Nicolas Roeg) • The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) • Masculin féminin (Jean-Luc Godard) • Metropolitan (Whit Stillman) • Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati) • Mona Lisa (Neil Jordan) • Monterey Pop (D.A. Pennebaker) • The Most Dangerous Game (Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack) • Murmur of the Heart (Louis Malle) • My Life as a Dog (Lasse Hallström) • My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava) • My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant) • Naked (Mike Leigh) • The Naked Kiss (Samuel Fuller) • Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg) • Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty) • Night and Fog (Alain Resnais) • Night and the City (Jules Dassin) • The Night Porter (Liliana Cavani) • A Night to Remember (Roy Baker) • Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini) • Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock) • Oliver Twist (David Lean) • Onibaba (Kaneto Shindô) • Opening Night (John Cassavetes) • Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer) • Orpheus (Jean Cocteau) • Orphic Trilogy (Jean Cocteau) • The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer) • Peeping Tom (Michael Powell) • Pépé le Moko (Julien Duvivier) • The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Buñuel) • Pickpocket (Robert Bresson) • Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller) • Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir) • Playtime (Jacques Tati) • The Pornographers (Shohei Imamura) • Port of Shadows (Marcel Carné) • Pygmalion (Leslie Howard, Anthony Asquith) • Quai des Orfèvres (Henri-Georges Clouzot) • Ran (Akira Kurosawa) • Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa) • Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay) • Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock) • Red Beard (Akira Kurosawa) • The Red Shoes (Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell) • Richard III (Laurence Olivier) • Rififi (Jules Dassin) • The River (Jean Renoir) • RoboCop (Paul Verhoeven) • The Rock Bay, Michael USA 1996 108 • The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson) • The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir) • The Ruling Class (Peter Medak) • Rushmore (Wes Anderson) • Salesman (Charlotte Zwerin, David Maysles, Albert Maysles) • Salò (Pier Paolo Pasolini) • Salvatore Giuliano (Francesco Rosi) • Samurai I - Musashi Miyamoto (Hiroshi Inagaki) • Samurai II - Duel at Ichijoji Temple (Hiroshi Inagaki) • Samurai III - Duel at Ganryu Island (Hiroshi Inagaki) • Samurai Rebellion (Masaki Kobayashi) • Samurai Spy (Masahiro Shinoda) • Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa) • The Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg) • Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman) • Schizopolis (Steven Soderbergh) • Secret Honor (Robert Altman) • Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa) • The Sevent (John Cassavetes) • Shock Corridor (Samuel Fuller) • Shoot the Piano Player (François Truffaut) • The Shop on Main Street (lmar Klos, Jan Kadar) • Short Cuts (Robert Altman) • Sid & Nancy (Alex Cox) • Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme) • The Silence (Ingmar Bergman) • Sisters (Brian De Palma) • Slacker (Richard Linklater) • Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman) • Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky) • Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick) • Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock) • Stage and Spectacle: Three Films by Jean Renoir (Jean Renoir • Stolen Kisses (François Truffaut) • Story of a Prostitute (Seijun Suzuki) • Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah) • Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa) • Sullivan's Travels(Preston Sturges) • Summertime (David Lean) • The Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto) • Sword of the Beast (Hideo Gosha) • The Tales of Hoffmann (Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell) • Tanner '88 (Robert Altman) • Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami) • The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang) • Testament of Orpheus (Jean Cocteau) • That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Buñuel) • Thieves' Highway (Jules Dassin) • The Third Man (Carol Reed) • This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner) • Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa) • Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman) • Time Bandits (Terry Gilliam) • The Tin Drum (Volker Schlondorff) • Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki) • Tokyo Olympiad (Kon Ichikawa) • Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu) • Touchez pas au grisbi (Jacques Becker) • Tout va bien (Jean-Luc Godard) • Traffic (Steven Soderbergh) • Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch) • Tunes of Glory (Ronald Neame) • Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi) • Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica) • The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Philip Kaufman) • Under the Roofs of Paris (René Clair) • Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges) • Vagabond (Agnès Varda) • The Vanishing (George Sluizer) • Variety Lights (Alberto Lattuada, Federico Fellini) • Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) • Videodrome (David Cronenberg) • The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman) • W.C. Fields - Six Short Films (Various) • The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot) • Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg) • The White Sheik Fellini, Federico Italy 1952 189 • Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman) • Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman) • Withnail and I (Bruce Robinson) • Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk) • Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa) • Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford) • Young Törless (Volker Schlondorff) • Youth of the Beast (Seijun Suzuki)

Facets
1517 W. Fullerton Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60614, USA (Tel +1-312: 281-9075)
Facets is a video and DVD distributor specialising in world cinema. They are one of the USA's largest distributors of foreign, classic, cult, art, and hard-to-find videos. They are committed to providing artistically important film on video, bypassing many mainstream releases to focus on the rare and the unusual. As a result, Facets' 60,000 title inventory is an astounding video collection unlike any in the world, famous for its breadth and diversity. Facets' own video label has exclusive distribution rights to over 500 DVD/VHS titles by cutting-edge American and international film and video makers.

Recent DVD Releases:
10th District Court • 21 Eyes • 21 Jump Street: The Complete Fifth Season • 21 Jump Street: The Complete Fourth Season • 3 Extremes • 3 Films by Louis Malle • Acting Out • Afro Promo • Al Pacino Collection Box Set • All the Mornings of the World • All the President's Men • American Matchmaker (Amerikaner Shadchen) • American Matchmaker / Green Fields / The Light Ahead / The Singing Blacksmith • Amos Gitai: Territories • The Anniversary • Another Public Enemy • The Ape • Artaud • Assassination • Assisted Living • Au Revoir les Enfants (Goodbye, Children) • Author! Author! • Baby Doll • Banger Sisters • Basic Instinct • Battleground: 21 Days on the Empire's Edge • Battlestar Galactica - Complete Epic Series • Battlestar Galactica: Season 1 • Battlestar Galactica: Season 2.0 • The BBC Cutting Edge Comedy Collection • The Best of Not the 9 O'Clock News • The Best of the Electric Company • Bettie Page: Varietease / Teaserama • Black Rebels / Murder in Mississippi • Breasts: A Documentary • The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even....more • The Buccaneers • Buffalo Boy • Bugsy Malone • Buried Alive • The Busby Berkeley Collection • Cake • The Californians • Capricious Summer • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) • Cerberus • Classic Musicals from the Dream Factory • Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death • The Constant Gardener • Controversial Classics Volume 2: The Power of Media • The Corporation • The Cruise • The Crying Game • Curse, Death & Spirit • Danger Mouse: The Complete Seasons 5 and 6 • David Copperfield • David Copperfield • Dear Wendy • The Departure • Dog Day Afternoon • Domino • Drunken Master (a.k.a. Drunken Monkey in a Tiger's Eye) • Echoes of Forgotten Places • El Compadre Mendoza • Elizabethtown • End of August at the Hotel Ozone • Enigma Secret • Eros • Esmeralda Comes by Night • Everything is Illuminated • Exiles • Eye of the Storm • FAQS • Fear of Clowns • Field Diary / Arena of Murder • The Firm / Elephant • Fists in the Pocket • Games of Love and Chance • Geldof in Africa • Ghost in the Shell: Stand Along Complex - Vol. 4, Season 2 • Girl 6 • The Girl from Monday • The Gladiators • The Gleaners and I • Going By • Goldstein • The Good Girl • Good Morning, Night • Good Night, and Good Luck • Goto: Island of Love • A Great Day in Harlem • The Great War: The Complete History of World War I • Green Fields • Greenaway: The Early Films • Greenaway: The Falls • Greenaway: The Shorts • Hairdresser • Happy Hour • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire • Heimat II • Hercules and the Princess of Troy / Atlas in the Land of the Cyclops / Giants of Rome • Hitman • Hollywood Screen Legends • The Hookers / P.P.S. (Prostitutes Protective Society) • House / A House in Jerusalem • How to Kill a Judge • I Love Your Work • Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt • Insatiability • It's Always Fair Weather • The Jimi Hendrix Story • Ju-On: The Grudge • Julius Caesar (Heston/Gielgud) • Just Beyond This Forest • Kagero-Za • The Keeper • Kill Devil • Kissing Jessica Stein • The Kumars at No. 42 • La Bataille du Rail • La Chevre • La Clave 7 (Code 7): Volumes I & II • La Estrella Vacia • La Perdicion de los Hombres • La Scorta • Lacombe Lucien • The Last Blues • The Last Samurai • Last Year at Marienbad • Laughing in the Wind: Volume 2 • The Laurel and Hardy Giftset • Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse / Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse--Deux ans Apres • The Light Ahead • Loggerheads • Luciano Ercoli's Death Box Set • Made in Britain • Magic • The Magnificent Seven • Man Trouble • Marebito • Mel Brooks Collector's Set • Memoirs of a Geisha • Michael Palin: Sahara • Mill on the Floss • Mingus • Monster of London City / Secret of the Red Orchid • Moulin Rouge • Mr. Arkadin • Muriel ou le Temps d'un Retour • Murmur of the Heart • Naked City: Box Set 1 • Naked City: Box Set 3 • Nell • Network • Night of the Iguana • Nightmare • Nine to Five • No Direction Home: Bob Dylan • Occupation: Dreamland • The Old Curiosity Shop (BBC/1979) • The Order: From Matthew Barney's Cremaster 3 • The Overture • Oyster Farmer • Panic in Needle Park • Paper Clips • Paradise Now • Paradise Road • Peace One Day • Peep TV Show • Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz • Planet of the Apes: The Ultimate DVD Collection • Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton • Pornography: The Secret History of Civilisation • The President's Last Bang • Private Dicks: Men Exposed • Private Lessons • Prix de Beaute • Pulse (Kairo) • The Quack • Raising Arizona • Rent • Rentals Items:Rentals • Robert Altman Collection • Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone • Saturday • Saturday Night at the Baths • The Savage Innocents • Saw II • Scarlet Moon • Scum • Seamless • Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus • Secrets and Lies • Seijun Suzuki: The Taisho Trilogy • Sequins • Seven Beauties • Shapes of the Invisible • Shorts! • Shorts! Volume 3 • Sideways • The Silver Horde • The Singing Blacksmith • Six Pack • Sleeper Cell • Slow Motion • Smoking / No Smoking • Solaris (Soderbergh) • Somewhere in Europe • Southern Belles • Speed Lovers / Thunder in Dixie • The Squid and the Whale • Stalag 17 • Stalin's Bride • A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) • Streets of Chaos • Sugarcubes: Live Zabor • The Sugarcubes: The DVD • Summer Stock • Sweet Bird of Youth • Swept Away • Syriana • Take Me • The Teen Files: Smoking--Truth or Dare • The Tennessee Williams Film Collection • Three Guys Named Mike • Three Little Words • Three of Hearts: A Postmodern Family • Thumbsucker • Till the Clouds Roll By • The Tomorrow Show: Punk and New Wave • Tornado Intercept • Transamerica • TransGeneration • Trilogy of Addiction • Twilight • Ultimate Avengers: The Movie • Unwanted Woman • Ushpizin • Valley of the Bees • Velvet Underground: Velvet Redux - Live MCMXCIII • Verdi: Don Carlo (Met) • Verdi: Don Carlo (Royal Opera) • Verdi: Don Carlos (Theatre du Chatelet) • Wadi 1981-1991 / Wadi Grand Canyon 2001 • Waiting • Waiting for the Moon • The Walerian Borowczyk Collection • A Walk in the Clouds • Walk the Line • War of the Roses • Werckmeister Harmonies • What a Way to Go • Whisky • Whisper of the Heart • The Wind in the Willows: A Tale of Two Toads • The World's Best Prom • Yumeji • Zane Grey Western Classics: Vol. 1 • Zane Grey Western Classics: Vol. 2 • Ziegfeld Follies • Zigeunerweisen • Zombie Honeymoon

Flicker: Film & Video Artists
Flicker do not actually distribute tapes or DVDs themselves, but they have a long list of websites of contemporary experimental film and video artists – many of whom sell DVD copies of their films directly from their websites.

Typical Prices for Personal Use: $15.00 - $150.00 / DVD

Flicker Film and Video Artists with DVDs for sale include:
Usama Alshaibi • Su Friedrich • Barbara Hammer • Takahika Iimura • Matt McCormick • Rohesia Hamilton Metcalfe

Index DVD
Neubaugasse 45/13, A-1070 Vienna, Austria (Tel +43-1-526 09 90/16)
Index releases and distributes audiovisual works relevant to the history of international and Austrian film, video and media art. For the label's launch 15 DVDs with the works of mostly Austrian artists were published. Preparations are underway for expanding the series to include international works.

Typical Prices: 36,00 € / DVD

KFA DVD edition
The KFA was founded in October 1992 with the aim of improving and developing the distribution structures for short film. KFA are an off shoot of the Hamburg short film festival.

Typical Prices: 19,50 - 25,00 € /DVD

Kino on Video
333 W. 39th Street, Suite 503, NY, NY 10018 (Tel. 212 629-6880)
Kino was founded as a distribution company in 1977 specialising in world cinema. Their expansive DVD and video catalogue includes an excellent collection of silent films including Soviet work (with work by Dziga Vertov and Eisenstein) and have also released a substantial 2 DVD box set of avant-garde films from 20s-30s among other things.

Typical Prices: $24.95 - $29.95 / DVD

Lowave
4 rue Galvani, 75838 PARIS cedex 17, France (Tel +33-0: 1 45 72 50 10)
Lowave is an independent Paris based DVD label working with the objective of discovering and promoting contemporary film and video art. Its ambition is to create a new marketplace for the work of cutting-edge artists and film-makers, under recognised by the traditional distribution channels, by making them accessible to the public via the DVD format. With DVD they believe experimental film can finally find an audience beyond the film festival circuit.

Typical Prices: 25,00 - 29,00 € / DVD

DVDs Include:
Urban Visions—a collection of 11 short films from 7 different countries including Fausse Solitude (Pierre-Yves Cruaud) and The Strip Mall Trilogy (Roger Beebe)

LUX
18 Shacklewell Lane, London E8 2EZ, UK (Tel +44-0: 20 7503 1606)
The LUX shop offers hard-to-find publications related to artists' film and video as well as a selection of videos, DVDs of artists' work. Visit the website to browse the online catalogue.

Typical Prices: Individual: £20-50 Institutional: £80-100 / DVD

DVDs Include:
Yoko Ono: This is Not Here (Takahiko Iimura) • AIEUONN Six Features (Takahiko Iimura) • WVLNT (Michael Snow) • Ma, A Japanese Concept (Takahiko Iimura) • Observer/Observed (Takahiko Iimura) • 60s Experiments (Takahiko Iimura) • Seeing/Hearing/Speaking (Takahiko Iimura) • Anthology (George Barber) • Anthology (Akiko Hada) • Anthology (Tony Hill) • Anthology (John Smith) • Read Only Memory (John Maybury) •

Movie Mail
Tel. +44 0870 264 9000
UK based video and DVD mail order company dealing in cult/classic and world cinema. They supply a wide range of material for purchase and rental and have a broad art & avant garde category with many titles - although most are available only on VHS.

Typical Prices: £17.99 - £29.99 / DVD

DVDs Include:
L'Age d'Or / Un Chien Andalou (Salvador Dali / Luis Bunuel) • Decasia (Bill Morrison) • Looking for Langston (Isaac Julien) • Temenos (Nina Danino)

onedotzero
Unit 212c Curtain House, 134-146 Curtain Road, London EC2A 3AR UK (Fax +44 20 7729 0057)
onedotzero have a DVD label for progressive and modern moving image work. Compilation DVDs are available through their website.

Typical Prices: £17.99 / DVD

Other Cinema DVD
250 Page St. Ste. 20, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA (Tel. +1-415: 290-0401)
The Other Cinema digital project provides an alternative platform for the distribution of extraordinary film works. They celebrate peculiar visions and offbeat sensibilities, drawn from the contemporary underground as well as the archives. Beat, auteur, exploitation, or industrial, Other Cinema aims to deliver a decidedly different audio-visual experience, opening up spaces both marvelous and dangerous.

Typical Prices: Individual: $24.95 Institutional: $100 / DVD

DVDs Include:
Sins of the Fleshapoids (Mike Kuchar) • dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y (Johan Grimonprez) • Decasia -- Limited Edition (Bill Morrison) • So Wrong They're Right (Russ Forster) • Sonic Outlaws (Craig Baldwin) • Nomads and No-Zones (Greta Snider and Vanessa Renwick) • The Rainbow Man/John 3:16 (Sam Green) • Spectres Of The Spectrum (Craig Baldwin)

Peripheral Produce
822 North River Street, Portland, Oregon 97227, USA (Tel +1-503: 282-6082)
Peripheral Produce started in 1996 as a screening series that focused on showcasing local experimental film and video. In 1998 it became a video distribution label, and began compiling work and releasing it for mass consumption.

Typical Prices: Personal $19.95 - $24.95 Academic $50.00 - $75.00 / DVD (includes shipping within U.S. included)

DVDs Include:
Something Like Flying (Deborah Stratmen) • What the 70s Really Looked Like & 70s Remix (Various) • The Next Best Place (Bill Brown)• From Tugboats To Polar Bears (Matt McCormick) • Peripheral Produce's All-Time Greatest Hits (Various) • • Waste-Book #1 (Brian Frye) • Nest of Tens (Miranda July) • The Starlight Dynamic Video Mix Tape (Various) • Animal Charm (Jim Fetterly and Rich Bott) • The Auto Cinematic Video Mix Tape (Various)

Raro Video
Raro Video, an Italian DVD and video label, release a wide range of art and experimental titles. Apart from classic, cult and arthouse cinema (including Godard, Oshima, Jodorowsky) they have a sub-label dedicate to experimental film, video art, animation and new media work. This collection of DVDs and books includes work by Andy Warhol, Paul Morrisey, Richard Kern, William S. Burroughs and Derek Jarman, among others.

Typical Prices:15,000 € / DVD

Recent DVD Releases:
Trash (Paul Morrissey) • Totò che visse due volte (Daniele Ciprì & Franco Maresco) • Flesh (Paul Morrissey) • Nostra Signora dei Turchi (Carmelo Bene) • Hermitage (Carmelo Bene) • Mississippi Blues (Bertrand Tavernier, Robert Parrish ) • Shubun (Akira Kurosawa) • Hakuchi (Akira Kurosawa) • The Nude Restaurant (Andy Warhol) • Le Boucher (Claude Chabrol) • Medea (Lars von Trier) • Night and Fog in Japan (Nagisa Oshima) • Detective (Jean-Luc Godard) • Blood for Dracula (Paul Morrissey) •What Did I Do To Deserve This? (Pedro Almodóvar) • Seppuku (Masaki Kobayashi) • Sambiki no samurai (Hideo Gosha) • Dark Habits (Pedro Almodóvar) • The Testament of Orpheus (Jean Cocteau) • Sebastiane (Derek Jarman) • My Hustler (Andy Warhol) • I a man (Andy Warhol) • Tokyo Story (Yasujiro - Ozu) • Early Spring (Yasujiro - Ozu) • Signs of Life (Werner Herzog) • Hercules (Werner Herzog) • The Fortress of Deutschkreuz (Werner Herzog) • Last Words (Werner Herzog) • Precautions Against Fanatics (Werner Herzog) • No One Wants to Play With Me (Werner Herzog) • Götter der Pest (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) • Der Amerikanische Soldat (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) • À Bout de Souffle (Jean-Luc Godard) • Le Petit Soldat (Jean-Luc Godard) • Made in USA (Jean-Luc Godard) • Naked Youth (Nagisa Oshima) • The Sun's Burial (Nagisa Oshima) • Love is Colder than Death (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) • The City Tramp (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) • The Little Chaos (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) • The Bridegroom, the Actress and the Pimp (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)

Re:voir
In the US: Gartenberg Media Enterprises, 143 West 96th Street, Suite 7B, New York, NY 10025 (Tel. +1-212: 280-8654)
Re:voir are a Paris-based pioneering video label founded in 1994 with the aim to make available an affordable collection of videotapes of experimental films. Their collection aims to represent the rich and diverse body of work of both classic and contemporary artists' film and video. Re:voir don't actually distribute work on DVD but they have some great titles on VHS.

Collection Includes Titles By:
Martin Arnold, Berthold Bartosch, Patrick Bokanowski, Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, Maya Deren, Oskar Fischinger, Fluxus, Philippe Garrel, Barbara Hammer, Takahiko Iimura, Ken Jacobs, Rémi Lange, Maurice Lemaitre, Rose Lowder, Len Lye, Stéphane Marti, Adolphas Mekas, Jonas Mekas, Bill Morrison, Jackie Raynal, Jürgen Reble, Hans Richter, Peter Rose, Jeff Scher, Six Solutions/Dissolution, Paul Sharits, Harry Smith, Michael Snow, Lionel Soukaz, Peter Tscherkassky, Stan Vanderbeek.