David E. Perry

Películas

Rubbish
Director
A young boy creates a world of puppet friends using pieces of rubbish found in the street.
Rubbish
Director of Photography
A young boy creates a world of puppet friends using pieces of rubbish found in the street.
Album
Himself / Narrator
In this short self-portrait, Ubu Films co-founder Perry mines his archive of family photographs, home videos and exhibited 16mm film to fast-forward, reverse and freeze-frame narratives and reminiscences.
Album
Director
In this short self-portrait, Ubu Films co-founder Perry mines his archive of family photographs, home videos and exhibited 16mm film to fast-forward, reverse and freeze-frame narratives and reminiscences.
Mad Mesh
Director
An experimental film by David E. Perry
Tobias Icarus Age Four
Director of Photography
An intimate portrait of a son by a mother set to the boisterously pop Batman theme song.
A Sketch on Abigayl’s Belly
Director
Photographer and filmmaker Perry’s concise film-poem uses graphic matches (grapefruits, balloons and bubbles) to convey anxieties about fatherhood.
David Perry
Himself
In this kinetic tribute to his Ubu Films collaborator Perry, Thoms combined tests and offcuts from early films with film fragments found on Perry’s editing room at ABC-TV. The Textacolour marks were intended as homage to Perry’s pioneering handmade films.
Bolero
Camera Operator
A minimalist exercise described by Thoms as ‘observing the effect of movement on perception within the framework of Ravel’s music’.
Bolero
Director of Photography
A minimalist exercise described by Thoms as ‘observing the effect of movement on perception within the framework of Ravel’s music’.
Puncture
Director
An experimental film by David Perry.
Halftone
Director
An experimental film by David Perry.
The Tribulations of Mr. Dupont Nomore
Director
1967 David E. Perry short
The Film
Director
“The film was made spontaneously one afternoon in 1966. When a few friends got together... We were all in love with the film medium...” (Garry Shead)
Harbour
Director
Records the backwaters and docklands of Sydney Harbour accompanying a young woman with a red umbrella.
Poem 25
Animation
In this film, David Perry scratched onto celluloid the numbers of a poem by Kurt Schwitters, which were projected beside the actor reciting it.
The Spurt of Blood
Animation
Made for inclusion in a student theatrical production at the University of Sydney, this film was based on an allegorical play by Antonin Artaud.
The Spurt of Blood
Editor
Made for inclusion in a student theatrical production at the University of Sydney, this film was based on an allegorical play by Antonin Artaud.
The Spurt of Blood
Cinematography
Made for inclusion in a student theatrical production at the University of Sydney, this film was based on an allegorical play by Antonin Artaud.
Swansong in Birdland
Director
An animated film using simplified and abstract forms, symbolising nuclear warfare.