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1 month ago

Books, A Confession

A writer reflects on the impact of books on his life and the astonishing power of the printed word.

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1 month ago

Suspicious Mind

One-minute film on love and betrayal.

Based on a prose poem by Cliff Burns (from his collection THAT FIRST, WOUND-BEARING LAYER).

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3 months ago

Peter Cook and Chris Morris Why Bother?- Eels Love and Guns

Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling interview by Christopher Morris

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  Peter Cook is one of the greatest comic wits of the past 100 years. Period.
  
  Thanks for this...
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4 months ago

Space 1999 - 1x03 - Collision Course

Original Air Date—31 October 1975

After destroying an asteroid on a collision course with the moon, an even larger obstacle appears - an entire pla...

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Ah, the good old days.

This retro fan offers his thanks for posting a little piece of his childhood.
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5 months ago

For Better or Worse

Official Selection to the Once a Week Online Film Festival

http://onceaweekfilmfest.we...

Synopsis: A man is unhappily married and decides to...

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Deftly handled, a terrific indie effort. Good luck with future endeavors.
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5 months ago

Charles Beaumont: Short Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man -- 10 minute Preview HQ

This is a clip from our Charles Beaumont (he was one of the principle writers for the original Twilight Zone series) film that is to be released in...

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5 months ago

Snoop

A film written, directed, and edited by student filmmaker Sam Burns. A small time detective makes a few enemies in his time, and this one is no exc...

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5 months ago

July 20, 1969

Tribute to the first landing on the moon. Based on a short prose piece by Cliff Burns.

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5 months ago

Eyes Open.mov

A visual essay on the way we perceive our world. Original music by Cliff Burns, and text by Stan Brakhage.

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5 months ago

Winter Light

An abstract visual essay exploring the interplay of light and shadow in the midst of a Canadian winter.

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5 months ago

So Dark the Night

A book trailer for the novel "So Dark the Night", a supernatural mystery written by Canadian author Cliff Burns. Photography - Sherron Burns; Edite...

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5 months ago

Twilight Kitten

Stop Motion Animation (claymation) This short film about a malevolent kitten who earns a just dessert.

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5 months ago

bill hicks - evolution

bill hicks describes how certain drugs may have been left here by god to speed up and facilitate mankinds evolution.

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5 months ago

Peter Cook & Dudley Moore - "Superthunderstingcar" - CLEAR version!

Created by marrying the original film with the audio from the kinescope (the original VT was wiped - along with most of the Sixties - long story). ...

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5 months ago

James Morrow video interview - Shambling Towards Hiroshima

This interview with novelist James Morrow was recorded at Capclave in October, 2010. In the interview Mr. Morrow discusses his book, Shambling Tow...

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  Shameful that more folks haven't viewed this interview. James Morrow's TOWING JEHOVAH is one of the monumental works of science fiction, the kind of novel that can change the way you look at the world.
  
  Everyone: run out today and buy something by James Morrow and reaffirm your faith in the po...
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5 months ago

Aleph

Wallace Berman | 1958-1976

Silent

Wallace Berman's first and only film.

"Aleph is an artist's meditation on life, death, mysticism, politics, and ...

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Stra-a-a-nge juxtapositions and I love the painted, scratched and burned on elements, the jumpjness, none of it accompanied by a soundtrack, explanatory title cards; a stuttering collage of interests and obsessions, snatchings from the zeitgeist. Nicely executed.
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5 months ago

Beautiful Desolation.m4v

A short, atmospheric film, exploring the notion of absence, the tenuous presence of human life on this planet. Where people cease to live, Nature ...

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6 months ago

Robert Anton Wilson on Jack Parsons - Pt. 1

Robert Anton Wilson (deceased) talks about Jack Parsons. Recorded in the spring of 1998.

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Wow. Charles Stansfield Jones. There's another obscure and fascinating figure. With a Canadian connection (I'm a Canuck). Not much written about Jones but I'd sure like to find out more re: the dude. If you have any suggestions for reading on Jones, drop 'em my way.

Sorry if I seem like ...
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11 months ago

White Lies - Bigger Than Us

Music video by White Lies performing Bigger Than Us. (C) 2010 Polydor Ltd. (UK)

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11 months ago

Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie - Beowulf

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I thought "300" was the worst movie of all time...until this travesty crawled out of the slime.

Hey, you dumb video gamers, keep your enlarged thumbs off the cinematic arts.
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1 year ago

MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON

Dir. by Dean Fleischer-Camp

Marcel is voiced (untreated & unenhanced) by a genius named Jenny Slate

Written by Jenny + Dean

More coming soon!

www....

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  Creative, original...and somehow avoids being sickeningly sweet. I marvel at what amateur talents are coming up with, thanks to the emergence of new, cheaper technology, programs like Garageband and iMovie. Francis Ford Coppola predicted back in 1980 that video/home movie cameras would cause an ...
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1 year ago

Jack Parsons & the Oath of the Abyss

Bill Heidrick explains the Oath of the Abyss.

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I spent over three years researching my occult novel SO DARK THE NIGHT, which features a subplot involving Hubbard and Parsons out in the desert...and what they brought into this world. The more I read of the shenanigans of the L.A. satanists, the more intrigued I became. I recall that Aleister ...
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1 year ago

Richard Matheson - Archive Interview Part 1 of 7

View the full interview at http://emmytvlegends.org/in...

7-part interview with writer Richard Matheson, who reminisc...

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One of my biggest heroes and literary influences. He and Charles Beaumont set the standard for the genre...and no one has ever surpassed them.
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1 year ago

Autechre - Second Bad Vilbel

Crazy AE video Directed By Chris Cunningham

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Fantastic editing, a real tour de force. I imagine this took an enormous amount of time to put together. Kudos to the director and editor (possibly one and the same).
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1 year ago

"Robot Boy" (footage).m4v

Rare Super 8mm footage, from the vintage 1960's kid's TV show, "Robot Boy".

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  cliffjburns commented:
  
  I recently posted an article on "Robot Boy" on my writing blog, "Beautiful Desolation".
  
  After reading the article, a gentleman whose father used to work at CKOS Yorkton in the 1960's sent me some Super 8 footage his dad shot. Terrific behind the scenes stuff. He also enclosed an audio snippet ...

About Cliff TV

A channel devoted to the creative, the anarchic, the unusual, the eccentric.

Some of my own short, cinematic efforts are featured here...but I'm also seeking to highlight the unique talents I run across when surfing the Web.

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Jan 31, 2012

Date Joined

Oct 22, 2009

About this user

I've been a professional author for more than a quarter century, with an avid interest in pop culture, cult TV and movies.

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