[img]http://expcinema.org/site/images/stories/news/winkler.jpg[/img]The new label [url=http://www.redavocadofilm.com][b]Red Avocado[/b][/url] has released today its first title: [url=http://www.redavocadofilm.com/archives/26][b]Paul Winkler: Australian Icons[/b][/url] selects some of the Germany-born filmmaker's most famous and awarded works. Includes the films [i]Sydney Harbour Bidge[/i] (1977, 16mm, colour, sound, 13 mins), [i]Bondi [/i](1979, 16mm, colour, sound, 15 mins), [i]Ayers Rock[/i] (1981, 16mm, colour, sound, 21 mins), [i]Time out for Sport[/i] (1996, 16mm, colour, sound, 17 mins), [i]Rotation [/i](1998, 16mm, colour, sound, 17 mins). Bonus: [i]© Paul Winkler[/i] (Mark Daley, Nicole Reid and Dominik Muench, MiniDV, colour, sound, 11 mins). DVD PAL, Multizone, 94 mins., 25€ (includes S&H for Europe).

Two exclusive releases from the american distributor / publisher [url=http://www.microcinemadvd.com]Microcinema[/url]:
- [url=http://www.microcinemadvd.com/product/DVD/893/Experiments_in_Terror_3.ht... in terror 3[/b][/url], once again curated by [b]Noel Lawrence[/b], but this time under the new [url=http://www.provocateurdvd.com][b]Provocateur[/b][/url] label. The short films included in this compilation are [i]Manuelle Labor[/i] (Marie Losier, USA, 2007, 10 min.), [i]Born of The Wind [/i](Mike Kuchar, USA, 1961, 24 min.), [i]Satan Claus[/i] (J.X. Williams, USA, 1975, 16mm, 3 min.), [i]The Psychotic Odyssey of Richard Chase[/i] (Carey Burtt, USA, 1999, 16mm, 6 min.), [i]Terror![/i] (Ben Rivers, USA, 2007, 24 min.), [i]Loma Lynda: The Red Door[/i] (excerpt) (Jason Bognacki, USA, 2008, 10 min.). Bonus: [i]It Gets Worse[/i] (Clifton Childree, USA, 2008, 32 min.). DVD NTSC, Multizone, 109 min., 24,95$
- The distribution of [url=http://www.phillniblock.com/][b]Phill Niblock[/b][/url]'s [url=http://www.microcinemadvd.com/product/DVD/766/Phill_Niblock_The_Movement... Movement of People Working[/b][/url], a 2003 [i]essential [/i]compilation of Niblock's documentaries regarding the dynamics of human labour, in opposition to Niblocks' remarkable minimalistic music. DVD10 NTSC, Multizone, 208 min., 24,95$

[url=http://www.index-dvd.at]Index[/url] releases its 33rd DVD with [url=http://www.index-dvd.at/en/program/033/index.html][b]Maria Lassnig: Animated Films[/b][/url], compiling the animations the austrian filmmaker, founder of the Studio for Experimental Animation, made while living in New York in the seventies. Includes the films [i]Baroque statues[/i] (1970-74, 16mm, sound, 15 min), [i]Iris [/i](1971, 16mm, sound, 10 min), [i]Chairs [/i](1971, 16mm, sound, 2 min), [i]Selfportrait [/i](1971, 16mm, sound, 4:30 min), [i]Shapes [/i](1972, 16mm, sound, 9 min), [i]Couples [/i](1972, 16mm, sound, 9 min), [i]Palmistry [/i](1973, 16mm, sound, 10 min), [i]Art education[/i] (1976, 16mm, sound, 8 min),[i] Maria Lassnig Kantate[/i] (1992, 16mm, sound, 8 min). DVD PAL, Multizone, 76 mins., 28,8€.[url=http://expcinema.org/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3...(Original article)[/url]