End Credits

Ken Kobland

1994, 6:50 min, color, sound

Filmed over a few nights in the late Ron Vawter's dressing room during the show Roy Cohn/Jack Smith, at the Kitchen, New York, in October 1993, this tape is a small but poignant homage to an extraordinary talent.

Flaubert Dreams of Travel But The Illness of His Mother Prevents It

The Wooster Group and Ken Kobland.

1986, 20 min, color, sound

Flaubert Dreams of Travel..., focuses on images of death and transcendence as suggested by the writings of Gustave Flaubert. The film was made in conjunction with the Wooster Group's theater production Frank Dell's The Temptation of St. Anthony, a re-invention of Flaubert's epic "closet drama" about the visions and ecstasies of the fourth century hermit St. Anthony.

The Last Time I Saw Ron

Leslie Thornton

1994, 12 min, color and b&w, sound

Arising out of a film and theatrical collaboration with the late Ron Vawter, this moving elegy to his memory employs footage of Vawter taken just before his death, as well as starkly beautiful sequences of distant human forms.

Volcano Saga

Joan Jonas

1989, 28 min, color, sound

Based on the thirteenth-century Icelandic Laxdeala Saga, this narrative reverie is a televisual retelling of a medieval myth about a young woman (played by Tilda Swinton) whose dreams foretell the future. Shot in the dramatic natural landscapes of Iceland and in New York, this performance-based...