Brian L. Frye Movies

Greg Pierce of Orgone Cinema invited me and Bradley Eros to present a Robert Beck Memorial Cinema program at the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh,...

TV Assassin was filmed in 2000. The images are Adolf Eichmann, at his trial in Jerusalem in 1961. I used a Cine-Kodak Eight Model 60 with the shutter...

A film by Brian L. Frye

Never before seen Super 8 home movies filmed by Richard Nixon's closest aides - and convicted Watergate conspirators - offer a surprising and...

Alchemical transformation of the remains of a mysterious low-budget film from 1969.

Brakhage has called her the muse, perhaps because she appears only to those who hold a strip of film in their own hands. But here she appears –...

A short work by Brian Frye

A fragment of tinted nitrate. An acetate recording of a wedding ceremony. Echoes of the bitter sweetness of the Spirit on the tongue of Man. As...

In 1997, while attending the San Francisco Art Institute, I made a 1 hour video of myself reading from John-Paul Sartre's book Nausea while drinking...

".. and yet of that living breathing throng, not one will be encased in a material frame. A company of ghosts, playing to spectral music. So may the...

A 16 mm. film by Brian L. Frye.

Short work by Brian Frye

An essay toward documenting the ineffable...One might consider it a dialogue between a man of Faith and one who has merely tasted of the absurd, yet...

"Frye's Meeting With Khrushchev is not an easy film to like, but repeated viewings reveal a work of immense weight, a moving combination of intense...

In honor of St. Patrick's Day, Moira Tierney asked for films about snakes. This is as close as I came. -Brian L. Frye

Wormwood’s Dog and Monkey Show was obviously compiled from a lot more material, which I found over at least a year and a half of hunting about....

A film by Brian L. Frye

A home-processed, handmade work, revises Charlie Chaplin’s screen test of his adolescent soon-to-be spouse (Oona O’Neill, the daughter of...

A short sound work by Brian Frye

Robert Beck was an American soldier from Chicago, who served in the First World War. Struck deaf and dumb by shellshock, Beck was sent to an English...