David E. Perry Movies
- 1993
The Refracting Glasses
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Constant Malernik, artist and filmmaker, is obsessed by the history of the Russian revolution. He makes images in homage to artists of the twentieth...
- 1967
The Film
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“The film was made spontaneously one afternoon in 1966. When a few friends got together... We were all in love with the film medium...”...
- 1967
The Tribulations of Mr. Dupont Nomore
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1967 David E. Perry short
- 1967
Bolero
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A minimalist exercise described by Thoms as ‘observing the effect of movement on perception within the framework of Ravel’s music’.
- 1968
David Perry
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In this kinetic tribute to his Ubu Films collaborator Perry, Thoms combined tests and offcuts from early films with film fragments found on...
- 1968
A Sketch on Abigayl’s Belly
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Photographer and filmmaker Perry’s concise film-poem uses graphic matches (grapefruits, balloons and bubbles) to convey anxieties about...
- 1982
Rubbish
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A young boy creates a world of puppet friends using pieces of rubbish found in the street.
- 1965
The Spurt of Blood
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Made for inclusion in a student theatrical production at the University of Sydney, this film was based on an allegorical play by Antonin Artaud.
- 1965
Poem 25
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In this film, David Perry scratched onto celluloid the numbers of a poem by Kurt Schwitters, which were projected beside the actor reciting it.
- 1970
Album
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In this short self-portrait, Ubu Films co-founder Perry mines his archive of family photographs, home videos and exhibited 16mm film to fast-forward,...
- 1967
Halftone
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An experimental film by David Perry.
- 1967
Puncture
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An experimental film by David Perry.
- 1968
Mad Mesh
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An experimental film by David E. Perry
- 1967
Harbour
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Records the backwaters and docklands of Sydney Harbour accompanying a young woman with a red umbrella.
- 1964
Swansong in Birdland
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An animated film using simplified and abstract forms, symbolising nuclear warfare.
- 1968
Tobias Icarus Age Four
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An intimate portrait of a son by a mother set to the boisterously pop Batman theme song.