Movies

A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native...

Experimental Filmmaker Scott Bartlett speaks of his filmmaking techniques and aesthetics at the time of OffOn's release. The film includes scenes...

The human eye, the human form, the human face: these are the three central images of this avant-garde collage and kaleidoscope of shifting and...

A short, black and white experimental film by San Francisco bay area avant-garde filmmaker Scott Bartlett.

Moon 1969 is a beautiful, eerie, haunting film, all the more wonderful for the fact we do not once see the moon: only the manifestation of its powers...

A graphic disintegration of paranoia, perversion and violence in Chicago. (worldcat.org)

A continuous dissolve of 87 male and female nudes. "The film's fascination lies with the suspense of that magic moment, halfway between two persons,...

An extraordinary, lucid and lyrical documentary of Morocco, unique in that it conveys both the exterior and interior values of the country. "The...

Working and playing hard at a northern California commune – fast-paced cutting to Taj Mahal's "Happy to be just like I am."

Barlett narrates MAKING SERPENT and describes the creative process behind SERPENT, his award winning short of 1971. MAKING SERPENT is a step-by-step...

Originally shot in color, this politically-charged special was a collaboration between young artists angry at the system. Just days before airing,...

A continuous dissolve into a series of happy nude couples in various configurations: female/male, female/female, male/male, as the Rolling Stones...

Financed by the National Endowment of the Arts. Prior to filming the SOUND OF ONE, Bartlett studied dance as a student enrolled at the Inner Research...

Financed by Guggenheim Fellowship. The serpent embodies the primal chaotic life force in mythic symbology. SERPENT uses natural and electronic...

A delicate and arousing treatment of lovemaking. Its mode is simple and classical, combining technical mastery and personal restraint. The image is...

A dramatic autobiographical film that is a multiplexed portrait of the San Francisco sub-culture of the 1960's, "a lasting testament to a time we...