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- A Weekend at the Beach with Jean-Luc Godard, 1978/2015, 8 min In 1978, Jean-Pierre Gorin invited Godard to come to the University California, San Diego to give a lecture. He stayed at our house at the beach. Some filmmakers and creatives came to visit him. They all stayed at our house on the beach. Guests were Heiner Müller, Wim Wenders, Martin Milner, Jim Mc Bride, Tom Luddy and other.
- Music by Alvin Curran, recorded at the Berlin Improvised Music Festival, is mixed with pictures, selected from Ira Schneider's film and video archive from 1964 until 2008, that sometimes relate to the music presented. Schneider and Curran met in Providence Rhode Island in 1957 while they were both students at Brown University. They have been working together on videos in the last 40 years. Won Best Experimental Short at Berlin Short Film Festival 2015.
- A Schneider Trilogy consists of three comedic videos thematically linked by the cult of mass media, the narcissism of Ira Schneider and its nefarious consequences on the world. The centrepieces are A Schneider To Marry and Sony(a) in which Ira Schneider marries himeself in the former and his Sony TV in the latter.
- Somewhere on Orchard Street is part of the experimental 16MM opus that is the core of Ira Schneider's experimental documentary work. THis particular film was exhibited at both Rencontres Internationales and at Haus der Kulturen der Welt and Berlin Short Film Festival at the Babylon in Berlin Mitte in 2016. Ira Schneider has had two major retrospectives at the ZKM Karlsruhe and Prada Foundation in Milan in 2017.
- ''I'd Rather be Half Right Than Vice President'' alongside ''Lost in Cuddihy'' and ''The Ghost of Wittgenstein'' form that experimental trifecta of experimental or just plain mental art movies known as "The Charlotteruse with the Medal of the Wobbling Bubble in its Palm Trilogy". Restored in 2017 this 28 minute ode to the silliness and decadence of 60s American culture comprise an essential 16MM restoration project by director Ira Schneider, who is the undisputed master of the experimental doc genre as well as being the de facto founder of video art. They are to be re-released at the Prada Fondazione in Milan and Paris Independent Film Festival 2017 (filmfestival.paris). Credited re-release producer is Paris Independent Film Festival Director, Claudine Biswas-MacKenzie.
- It's a documentary which conveys some of the feelings at the two 25th anniversaries celebrated in upstate New York. The original promoters moved their festival to Saugerties, N.Y. They had a line up of big stars and charged entry. Traditionalists had their Festival at the original site and it was free. The rains came as in 1969 and people just got nicer to each other.