Ondine Movies

A film structured in threes: three men, three reels of three minutes each, three acts with a different arrangement of bodies in the bathroom of the Factory, whose door has conveniently been left open for us to peek in.

Experimental filmmaker Roger Jacoby animates his muse, Ondine, as the villainous Scarpia in snippets from Giacomo Puccini's "Tosca." Freely mixing melodramatic gestures from his actors with a ruined soundtrack of static and full-on textural experiments that simulate decayed nitrate film bursting...

In this movie, director Volker Koch wants to reveal "petty-bourgeois fixations of consciousness and late capitalist myths of happiness". The protagonists: an American hustler, a drama student, a Munich waitress and her boyfriend who hope for money, a career and luck from a trip to Rome together.

This is one of several films and slide shows that feature Smith as a mock celebrity. It opens with the excerpt from No President originally called "Marsh Gas of Flatulandia" - several minutes of black and white footage of steam escaping from manholes segues to an interior scene of various creatures...

A few basic gestures, deliberately excluding indefinite states in between.

Ondine wears dark glasses and occasionally raises his eyebrows, as if simulating alertness, ut seems to be drifting off to sleep during the film. There is an in-camera edit toward the end of the roll, where the camera seems to have mistakenly been turned off and then on again.

Ondine and Sally Dixon "star" as ecstatic 19th century lovers in Jacoby's first home-processed film.

A small movie crew shooting a love scene in a wooded valley with Tammy and Pete, is surprised by the appearance of Dolores, a semi-nude woman who wanders through the background. The crew follows her, in hopes of photographing her for the motion picture. They find Dolores and her friend, Lee,...

L'AMICO FRIED'S GLAMOROUS FRIENDS "...is built around a pas de deux by Ondine and Sally Dixon... with a quickness of breath and dryness of the throat one is apt to say, 'What is that!' as if peering into some exotic fog. The sometimes lovely and sometimes not beautiful but nearly always exquisite...