Brian L. Frye Movies

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

A short work by Brian Frye

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

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 –...

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...

A film by Brian L. Frye

Short work by Brian Frye

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

A 16 mm. film by Brian L. Frye.

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...

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...

A short work by Brian Frye

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...

"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...

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...