Most of these are art and music documentaries because that’s what I like to watch. Let me know if any of them get yanked off Youtube and I’ll update the list. Coming up next: short version!
The 1880s Speak: Recent Developments in Archeophony “Presentation given by Patrick Feaster at the annual conference of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections in Rochester, New York, May 19, 2012. Visit http://griffonage.com to see some of his latest projects.”
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OD3ZmD_t5I&w=560&h=315]
Afro-Punk (doc. that inspired the annual AFROPUNK festival, 2003)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fanQHFAxXH0&w=560&h=315]
First Language: The Race to Save Cherokee
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9y8fDOLsO4&w=560&h=315]
The Goat (dir. Buster Keaton, 1921)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q06pdBWMKNg&w=560&h=315]
Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOP1LNr70aU&w=560&h=315]
Häxan (dir. Benjamin Christensen, 1922 “Based partly on Christensen’s study of the Malleus Maleficarum, a 15th-century German guide for inquisitors, Häxan is a study of how superstition and the misunderstanding of diseases and mental illness could lead to the hysteria of the witch-hunts.”) There is also an abridged version narrated by William Burroughs.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkXlXc0lA9c&w=560&h=315]
Holy Ghost People (Pentecostal/”snake handling” doc., 1967)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZIa4kutkIM&w=560&h=315]
How to Draw a Bunny (Ray Johnson doc., dir. John Walter, 2002) https://vimeo.com/110857936
In the Realms of the Unreal (Henry Darger doc., dir. Jessica Yu, 2004)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRlvDKcDvsI&w=560&h=315]
Kowloon Walled City Documentary (1988)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-rj8m7Ssow&w=560&h=315]
Life In Hidden Light (dir. Miranda Tasker and Marcus Nield, “Video of life inside an enclosed Carmelite community, including short excerpts of interviews with some of the Sisters.”)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7ilhfc4fY4&w=560&h=315]
The Life of Tove Jansson (BBC doc., creator of The Moomins!)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYgC0nKyF0g&w=560&h=315]
ODDSAC (Animal Collective movie, dir. Danny Perez 2010)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYQHl7aHsfE&w=560&h=315]
People Who Do Noise (Portland, OR noise scene doc., 2008)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGrN6PeIiOU&w=560&h=315]
Phonogram Images on Paper “Phonogram Images on Paper and the Frontiers of Early Recorded Sound, 1250-1950.” Presentation given by Patrick Feaster at the annual conference of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections in Los Angeles, May 12, 2011.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TESkh3hX5oM&w=560&h=315]
Pink Narcissus (dir. James Bidgood, 1971)
[archiveorg PinkNarcissus width=640 height=480 frameborder=0 webkitallowfullscreen=true mozallowfullscreen=true]
Stop Making Sense (Talking Heads concert doc., dir. Jonathan Demme, 1984)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xL7Ilh1DFI&w=560&h=315]
Style Wars (graffiti/hiphop culture doc., dir. Tony Silver, 1983)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9KxbaSU-Eo&w=560&h=315]
Wattstax (aka The Black Woodstock, concert doc., 1973)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_P6ZWUJIa0&w=560&h=315]
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen (dir. Tim Irwin)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmKGusadv08&w=560&h=315]
Wesley Willis: Artist of the Streets (1988)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rzg51SMhEo&w=560&h=315]
Yo! MTV Raps (VH1 doc.)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyji4m-exjU&w=560&h=315]
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