Movies: Mark Ellinger

Blend of documentary and domestic melodrama featuring a series of sexually charged vignettes inspired by a piece of toilet graffiti. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016....

A short comedy by Curt McDowell. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015....

A shady motel manager becomes obsessed with a neglected wife....

Orson Welles reads the poem especially for this film by Larry Jordan, which is dedicated to the late Wallace Berman, and is made possible by a grant from The National Endowment Of The Arts....

Willy and Billy attempt to entertain while struggling with their primal urges....

The comings and goings of the late underground filmmaker, Curt McDowell—and the people and activities that came and went along with him—are the themes that run through this existential diary of daily life. McDowell was dying from AIDS-related illness...

Curt McDowell has a confession for his parents. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015....

A short film in two parts by Curt McDowell. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015....

Two men hypnotize their roommate and attempt to force him to fall in love....

"A surreal meditation on a cigarette billboard using a very strange ballerina as an allegory for something or other Indescribably funny." - Seattle International Film Festival, 1978. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016....

“PEED INTO THE WIND smears across the screen like one of those dirty underground comic books. It’s loaded with a lot of big scenes and unusual looking people that make this epic resemble a clogged toilet. Unfortunately, since several of the performer...

Two brothers are stood up and lament through song. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015....

A musical revue of lewd routines....

A series of vignettes illustrating sexual fantasies....