Movies: Bill Creston

In "PREGNANCY DREAMS" Barbara Rosenthal, nude and nine months pregnant, reads from her Journal dreams of filthy bathrooms, impeccably clothed men, and other parallels. Originally shot in Super-8 film by Bill Creston (seen nude in the mirror with his ...

Four brief funny scenes based on real events in this absurdist auteur cineaste’s life. Video and Super-8 pioneer Bill Creston acts as well as directs...

Snippets of New York City caught during Creston’s 15 years as a NYC cab driver, with scenes scripted and edited, and some actual dialogue recorded, with performances by Bill Creston, Barbara Rosenthal, Richard Miller, Lorraine Schanzer, and others. O...

In this short absurdist narrative, casting himself once again as an elderly derelict approached by a passerby. Creston explores conventionality and unconventionality, need and desire, pride and the human condition....

A video portrait of artist, madman and street entrepreneur Denham Arthur Oswald Kelsey, III....

4 Super-8 Film Short-Shorts. PEANUT BUTTER, WATER, STARS, EXECUTION, and THE EXECUTION. The master absurdist Bill Creston acts as well as directs, with his usual ensemble cast....

An experimental documentation of Barbara Rosenthal's pregnancy and the birth of Ola Creston, as filmed by Ola's father....

Video autobiography from age six to thirteen. Scenes and narrative shot on location, ending with a video transfer of the actual 16mm film footage of the artist's elaborate wartime Bar Mitzvah....

Segments of quick images from city and country, with original improvised diaglog....

Super-8 movie of footage shot in and around New York City in its grittiest days, with collaged audio track of bits of found sound, ambient sound, scripted dialog and original Moog synthesizer sound....

"Open 7 Days a Week, 24 Hours a Day" is a 15-minute Super-8 color and BW sound film composed of segments shot in New York City during the bicentennial year, 1976, depicting the city at its silliest, most patriotic and most masculine-conscious public ...