Funeral Tape

The life and times of artist Richard Ellis

A 5 minute, 2D, straight-ahead animated film by Bruce Bickford.

A dream lament for a drowned world. Filmed in London, Zurich, San Francisco, Berkeley and Napa. Music by Grouper.

When a beautiful young Grace arrives in the isolated township of Dogville, the small community agrees to hide her from a gang of ruthless gangsters, and, in return, Grace agrees to do odd jobs for the townspeople.

Be. Belonging. Words on vintage flash cards shuffle past in a stream-of-consciousness that shows the mind working, assigning labels and names to things through love and language. In the space of a moment, perception embarks on an epic journey of tongues, through Cantonese and English sounds and Ektachrome memories that form the characters and identity of this American-born Asian filmmaker.

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The portrait of a world in reverse, a society of different tonalities and shades. Aspiration as a refuge from systematization.

What could possibly be more important than feeding your daughter?

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The work draws an abstract image of a human that has internalized the images and stories of the world of advertising. A woman is sitting in front of a camera telling a story about an experience she had. Even though she is able to describe the events in great detail, the story also seems to be unlikely or implausible.

Set in Munich's petty-bourgeois Westend, film documents life at home with former Fassbinder actor, Warhol collaborator, and horror movie director Ulli Lommel. Rather than a straight documentary portrait of this bohemian household, the camera prefers to follow the narrative impulses of the family members. Lost in serious play, the kids improvise hypnotic death scenes while their mother claims to come from a planet where everything is "ethereal and incorporeal." As parent-child relations are unscripted and re-scripted on the fly, the dilated time of a collective daydream is punctuated by the ordinary sounds of an electric toothbrush, vacuum cleaner, and piano.

A film motivated by nothing (but daily life and (my) vision). It represents nothing, it signifies nothing. There’s no hidden meaning, no defined subject, no predetermined objective. Inside and outside. Just angles, textures and flashes of color. A whole different empire of vision, impossible to be put into words. “Nothing” as anything outside common visual knowledge, anything that defies the logic of naming the world; a possibility for a new way of thinking; of dealing with our visual world.

Dialogue between a man from Earth and an alien about the advantages and darker sides of earthly civilization

A guy named Ray tries to go to sleep and a sasquatch gets into funky business.

A film without a lens.

She attempts to escape her patterns.

A woman attends a party where she is observed by and finally meets a mysterious guest.

Is the eye the window of the soul? - Mydriasis is a movie that reflects about the early discoveries of queerness and its impact on the self perception of a person.

A series of vaudeville acts inserted in images of reality, meant to demonstrate the ephemeral nature of all things.

Forced to paint, the artist will either create or be consumed. A modern gothic art film told through a series of striking still images.