Bill Creston

Four brief funny scenes based on real events in this absurdist auteur cineaste’s life. Video and Super-8 pioneer Bill Creston acts as well as directs

An experimental documentation of Barbara Rosenthal's pregnancy and the birth of Ola Creston, as filmed by Ola's father.

Segments of quick images from city and country, with original improvised diaglog.

In this short absurdist narrative, casting himself once again as an elderly derelict approached by a passerby. Creston explores conventionality and unconventionality, need and desire, pride and the human condition.

4 Super-8 Film Short-Shorts. PEANUT BUTTER, WATER, STARS, EXECUTION, and THE EXECUTION. The master absurdist Bill Creston acts as well as directs, with his usual ensemble cast.

Snippets of New York City caught during Creston’s 15 years as a NYC cab driver, with scenes scripted and edited, and some actual dialogue recorded, with performances by Bill Creston, Barbara Rosenthal, Richard Miller, Lorraine Schanzer, and others. Original soundtrack and song “Taxi-Taxi” by Bill Creston.

A video portrait of artist, madman and street entrepreneur Denham Arthur Oswald Kelsey, III.

Four brief funny scenes based on real events in this absurdist auteur cineaste’s life. Video and Super-8 pioneer Bill Creston acts as well as directs

Four brief funny scenes based on real events in this absurdist auteur cineaste’s life. Video and Super-8 pioneer Bill Creston acts as well as directs

Four brief funny scenes based on real events in this absurdist auteur cineaste’s life. Video and Super-8 pioneer Bill Creston acts as well as directs

An experimental documentation of Barbara Rosenthal's pregnancy and the birth of Ola Creston, as filmed by Ola's father.

An experimental documentation of Barbara Rosenthal's pregnancy and the birth of Ola Creston, as filmed by Ola's father.

A film consisting primarily of rapid segments shot in and around New York City with original music and sound usually cut in equal length to each image. The principal subject of the film is New York street culture: birds, dogs, transportation, derelicts, pedestrians and seamy life, intercut with a very few fragments of nature, indoor and simple subjects. Each sound has been written as dialogue or collected from the radio or produced on synthesizer to accompany each image and establish attitude: amusement, amazement, contrast, bewilderment, humor, absurdity.

Super-8 movie of footage shot in and around New York City in its grittiest days, with collaged audio track of bits of found sound, ambient sound, scripted dialog and original Moog synthesizer sound.

"Open 7 Days a Week, 24 Hours a Day" is a 15-minute Super-8 color and BW sound film composed of segments shot in New York City during the bicentennial year, 1976, depicting the city at its silliest, most patriotic and most masculine-conscious public time. Preston alternates brief scripted scenes of songs and thoughts, fictionalized encounters and news items with the street footage, much of which was shot from his own window overlooking Avenue of the Americas at 24th St. His own cast of characters intermingles with the characters on the street for a full view of the city's life.

Segments of quick images from city and country, with original improvised diaglog.

Video autobiography from age six to thirteen. Scenes and narrative shot on location, ending with a video transfer of the actual 16mm film footage of the artist's elaborate wartime Bar Mitzvah.

In this short absurdist narrative, casting himself once again as an elderly derelict approached by a passerby. Creston explores conventionality and unconventionality, need and desire, pride and the human condition.

In this short absurdist narrative, casting himself once again as an elderly derelict approached by a passerby. Creston explores conventionality and unconventionality, need and desire, pride and the human condition.

4 Super-8 Film Short-Shorts. PEANUT BUTTER, WATER, STARS, EXECUTION, and THE EXECUTION. The master absurdist Bill Creston acts as well as directs, with his usual ensemble cast.

4 Super-8 Film Short-Shorts. PEANUT BUTTER, WATER, STARS, EXECUTION, and THE EXECUTION. The master absurdist Bill Creston acts as well as directs, with his usual ensemble cast.