Greg Curnoe

Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.

"The whole film are non-art portraits of people in which they do what they want with this hat – and therefore, act or stand in front of my camera. It’s only love: therefore it can’t harm you". Joyce Wieland.

Why Are You Making All That Noise? is a story of contemporaries who in 1965 formed the Nihilist Spasm Band. Their story encompasses thirty five years of art and performance. Don Alexander introduces a video style that reflects the band's abandon of the disciplines of time and genre.

A documentary about the Canadian noise band.

In "Connexions" Greg Curnoe describes all of the intricate connections in his life over moving images of London's downtown, neighbourhoods and bars. You also see studio images of Jack Chambers painting his famous "401" painting. Connexions becomes a diary - narrative - biographical - autobiographical home movie of regionalism - provincialism.

Greg Curnoe's "No Movie" (1965) was originally filmed in 16mm using a 1938 Cine Kodak Magazine Load Camera. It was his first movie. The original music soundtrack was recorded by members of the Nihilist Spasm Band, but this sound recording has since been lost.

"A collection of footage from my friends or by my friends and me. It is amazing the number of events recorded by various means around London. Sowesto contains the opening of Region Gallery, The First Canadian Happening, Barbara Ann Scott in St. Marys, Nihilist events, etc." — Greg Curnoe