Donna Kerness
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
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Gender: Female
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Rockflow
Overview: "Parts of this film were shot for a mixed media show at the 'Electric Circus' in New York, and were later expanded and re-edited into the present form. A semi-documentary that gradually expands to a pure sight and sound experience. Music by Chambers Brothers." –B. C.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-08
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Jangleflex
Overview: An abstract, rhythmically cut film with various images of women, some of whom are dancers. The sound track, which is semi-electronic, is composed and played by Cowan. –B. C.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Seadrift
Overview: Seadrift is based on a story The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft, and was shot partially in Marblehead Mass. Each section represents a synthesis of the various aspects and moods of the story. The sum total of the fragments expresses the atmosphere of the whole.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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River Windows
Overview: "A film counterpointing the hard reality of the present with the fantastic actuality or imagining of the idyllic past. This is best realized in the halting transition from the journey through time back to the watery one that evoked." –Ken Kelman
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Sins of the Fleshapoids
Overview: One million years in the future, the human survivors of a nuclear war are served by robots called "fleshapoids." One day, fleshapoid Xar runs wild, kills its mistress and seeks its mate, a servant of wicked Prince Gianbeno.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-04
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Sherman Acres
Overview: A drama in six episodes involving psychological breakdowns, marital showdowns, and messy obsessions. The characters include a wayward priest, a promiscuous school-teacher and her proctologist husband, teenage thrill killers, and an obsession-driven psychotherapist with an enema bag. Lots of special effects, as it moves quickly from one major crisis to another.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Secks
Overview: "...in a film abounding with humor and fertile with suggested points of departure for at least half a dozen more pictures, clearly deserves the encouragement that a top award can give." - Statement of the Judges of the First International Erotic Film Festival (Bruce Conner, Maurice Girodias, and Arthur Knight)
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-26
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Unstrap Me
Overview: Exhausted by a sexually frustrating home life in the Bronx, portly, 65-year-old Uncle Bojo tosses aside all responsibilities, leaves his wife, Stella, and sets out in search of adventures.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-11-20
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Born of the Wind
Overview: A tender and realistic story of a scientist who falls in love with a mummy he has restored to life.
Genres: Fantasy Romance Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-04
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Color Me Shameless
Overview: Made when I was a bit depressed which is nothing new,. Bob Cowan happened to be depressed as well and so we had a wonderful time working together. One of the actresses was separated from her husband at this time and the movie solidifies into concrete the repressed desires of everyone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-29
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Lovers of Eternity
Overview: A lonely, bohemian poet befriends the good, the bad and the ugly in this rooftop drama set in New York's lower East side of Eden.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Lust for Ecstasy
Overview: “LUST FOR ECSTASY is my most ambitious attempt since my last film…. I wrote many of the pungent scenes on the D train, and when I arrived on the set I ripped them up and let my emotional whims make chopped meat out of the performances and the story…. Yes, LUST FOR ECSTASY is my subconscious, my own naked lusts that sweep across the screen in 8mm and color with full fidelity sound.” – George Kuchar
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-04
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Corruption of the Damned
Overview: Corruption of the Damned might seethe with violence and sex, the two most attractive things you can put on the screen, but beneath them a twisted outlook pervades.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-05-29
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The Slasher
Overview: An insane, deformed killer stalks the grounds of a resort house, bringing sudden violence to those of easy virtue and godlessness.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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The Naked and the Nude
Overview: Big…Rousing…Memorable! The incredible war saga of our own boys in a Jap-infested jungle in the Botanical Gardens. Hear Lloyd Thorner sing the title song. You’ll come out whistling from both ends.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Night of the Bomb
Overview: The film combines teenage lust and deranged delinquency to create a cautionary tale for the ages.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Hold Me While I'm Naked
Overview: Presented as loosely autobiographical, Hold Me While I’m Naked centres on the tribulations of an independent filmmaker, frustrated at every turn as he tries to make a film that pretends to artistic merit.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-04-23
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No President
Overview: Smith's third feature film was originally titled "The Kidnapping of Wendell Willkie by the Love Bandit," in reaction to the 1968 Presidential Campaign. It mixes B&W footage of Smith's creatures with old campaign footage of Willkie, a liberal Republican who ran against FDR in the 1940's. The climax of the work appears to be the "auctioning" of the presidential candidate at a convention.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-02-02
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Portrait of Ramona
Overview: This movie was made mostly in Brooklyn during some very hot and empty evenings. Since the evenings were so empty, Jane Elford, the star, urged me to get started making another movie (we had completed PAGAN RHAPSODY the year before). I said "okay," and launched her in a photographed series of telephone calls, not really knowing who was going to be on the other end. I was interested at the time in irrational, neurotic responses and so the heroine was put into unstable situations that I dreamt up because I was making a movie with a plot and there should be some action .... Many of the stars appear nude and all I can say is that because of the heat and the general, overall feeling of the film which is one of the usual desperation and explosive emotions, I couldn't see any other way of them playing it. The general tone of everything was ... "Why even bother to get dressed?"
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Tootsies in Autumn
Overview: [A] cautionary tale about past-their-prime thespians caught up in a typically Kucharian vortex of madness. - Anthology Film Archives
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-09-23
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Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof
Overview: “It glows with the embers of desire! It smokes with the revelation of men and women longing for robust temptations that will make them sizzle into maturity with a furnace-blast of unrestrained animalism. A film for young and old to enjoy.” —George Kuchar
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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The Secret of Wendel Samson
Overview: A young man's struggle with his sexuality overtakes his life, driving him deep into his subconscious where guilt and fears of physicality chase him still further. Cornered by an intangible terror, he realises he must either break out or break down.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-07-01
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The Craven Sluck
Overview: A desperate, married woman meets a mysterious man who she blatantly desires. Through some twists and turns, things do not go over as well as she seems to wish.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-21
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Pagan Rhapsody
Overview: Edgar, an aristocrat, commissions Camillo to write a play based on an affair he had ten years ago with the Countess del Monaco. But Edgar first has to find a suitable actress to play the Countess – his search will lead to his own death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-02-28
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It Came from Kuchar
Overview: It Came from Kuchar is the definitive, feature documentary about the legendary, underground filmmaking twins, the Kuchar brothers. George and Mike Kuchar have inspired two generations of filmmakers, actors, musicians, and artists with their zany, "no budget" films and with their uniquely enchanting spirits.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-22
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The Devil's Cleavage
Overview: A shady motel manager becomes obsessed with a neglected wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-28
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Urchins of Ungawa
Overview: In a garden of roses and memorabilia from darkest Africa, a man and woman ponder the joy of cooking and the companionship of cats. Goodies for the guts abound in this visual essay on feline friendship and far away places. An electronic voyage beyond the stench of house and garden that transports the viewer- and cat- to the promised land.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Face
Overview: The three faces (two women and one tranvestized man) in the series of close up, which are shot separately in their sexual process of the acting and the real, are intercut and edited making into a film. The sound is the voice of continuous laughing of a woman repeated from a loop-tape. What I try to realize in this film is the question of gender through the facial expression in sex between woman and tranvestized man, and the image in detail between the ac ting and the real life. When these factors are mixed, one can hardly distinguish one from the other.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-10
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Bill's Hat
Overview: "The whole film are non-art portraits of people in which they do what they want with this hat – and therefore, act or stand in front of my camera. It’s only love: therefore it can’t harm you". Joyce Wieland.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Secrets of the Shadow World
Overview: This three-part mini-series explores the mysterious and the mundane in a splash of digital dioramas that wipe across the screen in a cascade of electronic barfs. Zeroing in on the paranormal theories of UFO author John A. Keel, this leisurely exposition, which was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, sweeps the viewer into a candy-colored world of scintillating mysteries made all the more intriguing by culinary digressions.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-31
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The Mammal Palace
Overview: The movie takes a rather negative look at things despite the fact that it was shot in reversal film. It depicts the turbulent relationships of disturbed individuals existing on various levels of an apartment house. Donna Kerness and her husband Hopeton Morris are lurid together and they are also pretty lurid when they're alone.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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House of the White People
Overview: Having nothing to do with racial tensions, HOUSE OF THE WHITE PEOPLE is actually a chunk of film removed from a bigger chunk called UNSTRAP ME. It is a documentation of George Segal creating the basic elements for one of his statues preceded by rare glimpses into his own private museum. Donna Kerness serves as his live model. Walter Gutman sits on a chair and walks around a bit, being that he produced the film. Helen Segal, personifying the ageless saying, "behind every man there stands a woman," stands behind her man and also stands in front of him occasionally. The film is a unique invitation to view the hidden rituals of a famous artist and his infamous model, half naked, snowbound together on a lonely farm, with a silent wife and a notorious guest.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Encyclopedia of the Blessed
Overview: " ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BLESSED culminates my involvement with artist Red Grooms and Mimi Gross. It is a diary of our work as we head for the Pacific Ocean in a suicidal plunge for theatrical infamy. The film traces the construction of two craven images made in the likeness of myself by Grooms and Gross. Then it switches to the sandhills of Nebraska where fat cattle walk around. There the film explores Grooms' biggest construction, "The Chicago Installation." The film rolls relentlessly onward to the West Coast showing, for the first time on any screen, a theatrical production we three put in the University of California. It marks my directorial debut on the stage and Red Grooms' comeback after ten years of exile from live theatre." - George Kuchar
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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A Tub Named Desire
Overview: "A Tub Named Desire," the first movie with Donna Kerness, does not exist anymore, except for one 8mm print that was in George Kuchar's possession. The footage was taken apart, and some of it is included in "The Naked and the Nude." - Carnegie Museum of Art archive.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Magicman
Overview: A ritualistic mood piece with colour-rich images
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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