Brian L. Frye Movies
- 2002

Across the Rappahannock
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On December 12, 1863, General Ambrose Burnside's Army of the Potomac engaged General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia in the town of...
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- 1995

Grotto of the Gorgons
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An electronic variety show featuring poetry, theatrics, dance, songs, and a plot concerning the cultivation of literary innocence and the...
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- 2000

Broken Camera Reels 1 & 2
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The film consists of two rolls of film I shot in 1998 or 1999 while living in a Bushwick loft. I was interested in the perfect simplicity of a movie...
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- 1997

World's Fair and Exhibition
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I made this film at the San Francisco Art Institute. I shot the entire film by myself in one day on an Arriflex. It was filmed on Kodak RAR gun...
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- 2002

An American Boy Grows Up
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A short work by Brian Frye
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- 2002

Observations at Gettysburg
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Man is full of sin and nature, and all he does don't bear looking at, and a heap of what he says is a shame and a mawkery. But cant no witness hurt...
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- 2014

Sara Nokomis Weir
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This documentary consists of the victim impact video introduced in the penalty phase of the trial of Douglas Oliver Kelly, accompanied by an audio...
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- 2011

A Reasonable Man
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In 2007, the United States Supreme Court decided Scott v. Harris, which held that where “the record blatantly contradicts the plaintiff’s...
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- 1999

The Anatomy of Melancholy
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Sometime in the 1960s, a chiropractor from Kansas City made a short film called "A Portrait of Fear." The film consisted of several tableau shots of...
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- 2003

Encomium
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I shot this roll of film at a party Bard College threw when it awarded Stan Brakhage an honorary degree. A few days after he died, I dug it out and...
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- 2003

Burnout
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A metropolis awash in electrical overdrive crashes in the heat of summer and sends a Bronxite into the clutches of a waterworld further north. It is...
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- 1995

6.95: Striptease
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6.95: Striptease might have been titled "Brian Frye Fails to Strip." We see Frye disrobe, but when he gets to his white undershorts, the roll ends in...
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- 2011

The Silent Majority
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This short documentary suggests a direct connection between two of Nixon’s greatest triumphs as president: his landmark 1969 "Silent Majority"...
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