Brian L. Frye Movies

  • 2011
    A Reasonable Man

    A Reasonable Man

    A Reasonable Man

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    In 2007, the United States Supreme Court decided Scott v. Harris, which held that where “the record blatantly contradicts the plaintiff’s...

    A Reasonable Man
  • 1970
    Sunday Morning

    Sunday Morning

    Sunday Morning

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    Greg Pierce of Orgone Cinema invited me and Bradley Eros to present a Robert Beck Memorial Cinema program at the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh,...

    Sunday Morning
  • 2000
    Nadja

    Nadja

    Nadja

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    Brakhage has called her the muse, perhaps because she appears only to those who hold a strip of film in their own hands. But here she appears –...

    Nadja
  • 2001
    The Letter

    The Letter

    The Letter

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    An essay toward documenting the ineffable...One might consider it a dialogue between a man of Faith and one who has merely tasted of the absurd, yet...

    The Letter
  • 2001
    Wormwood's Dog and Monkey Show

    Wormwood's Dog and Monkey Show

    Wormwood's Dog and Monkey Show

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    Wormwood’s Dog and Monkey Show was obviously compiled from a lot more material, which I found over at least a year and a half of hunting about....

    Wormwood's Dog and Monkey Show
  • 2002
    Robert Beck is Alive and Well and Living in NYC

    Robert Beck is Alive and Well and Living in NYC

    Robert Beck is Alive and Well and Living in NYC

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    Robert Beck was an American soldier from Chicago, who served in the First World War. Struck deaf and dumb by shellshock, Beck was sent to an English...

    Robert Beck is Alive and Well and Living in NYC
  • 1997
    Untitled 1997

    Untitled 1997

    Untitled 1997

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    Short work by Brian Frye

    Untitled 1997
  • 1997
    Nausea

    Nausea

    Nausea

    01997HD

    In 1997, while attending the San Francisco Art Institute, I made a 1 hour video of myself reading from John-Paul Sartre's book Nausea while drinking...

    Nausea
  • 2014
    Sara Nokomis Weir

    Sara Nokomis Weir

    Sara Nokomis Weir

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    This documentary consists of the victim impact video introduced in the penalty phase of the trial of Douglas Oliver Kelly, accompanied by an audio...

    Sara Nokomis Weir
  • 2000
    The Eels of Chicago

    The Eels of Chicago

    The Eels of Chicago

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    In honor of St. Patrick's Day, Moira Tierney asked for films about snakes. This is as close as I came. -Brian L. Frye

    The Eels of Chicago
  • 2000
    Lachrymae

    Lachrymae

    Lachrymae

    02000HD

    ".. and yet of that living breathing throng, not one will be encased in a material frame. A company of ghosts, playing to spectral music. So may the...

    Lachrymae
  • 2002
    Kaddish

    Kaddish

    Kaddish

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    A fragment of tinted nitrate. An acetate recording of a wedding ceremony. Echoes of the bitter sweetness of the Spirit on the tongue of Man. As...

    Kaddish
  • 2002
    Across the Rappahannock

    Across the Rappahannock

    Across the Rappahannock

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    On December 12, 1863, General Ambrose Burnside's Army of the Potomac engaged General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia in the town of...

    Across the Rappahannock