I'm Too Sad to Tell You
I'm Too Sad to Tell You
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This short film is part of a mixed media artwork of the same name, which also included postcards of Ader crying, sent to friends of his, with the...
Bas Jan Ader
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Nightfall
Nightfall1/101971HDShot in his garage-studio, the camera records Ader painstakingly hoisting a large brick over his shoulder. His figure is harshly lit by two tangles...
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Broken Fall (Geometric)
Broken Fall (Geometric)5/101971HDOne of a series of ‘falls’ by Bas Jan Ader that he recorded on film, this work was filmed in West Kapelle, Holland in 1970.
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Fall 2
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Here Is Always Somewhere Else
Here Is Always Somewhere Else6/102007HDThe life and work of enigmatic Dutch/Californian conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader, who in 1975 disappeared under mysterious circumstances at sea in the...
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Fall 1
Fall 16/101970HDBas Jan Ader's first fall film shows him seated on a chair, tumbling from the roof of his two-storey house in the Inland Empire.
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Broken Fall (Organic)
Broken Fall (Organic)6/101971HDBas Jan Ader hangs from the branch of a tall tree, until he loses his grip and falls into a river below.
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The Man Who Looked Beyond the Horizon
The Man Who Looked Beyond the Horizon0/102019HDMore than 40 years ago, Bas Jan Ader decided to go on an adventure. In a tiny sailing boat, the Dutchman set sail across the ocean. Nine months later...
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Broken Fall (Organic)
Broken Fall (Organic)0/102008HDJemison adopts and refashions the premise of Bas Jan Ader’s work of the same name. As in the 1970s-era video, a young man clings to a tree...
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Untitled (Tea Party)
Untitled (Tea Party)0/101972HDUntitled (Tea Party) is a short silent film. The camera slowly zooms into a sunlit clearing in a forest where Ader, formally dressed, is crawling...
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Primary Time
