
Mostly from the 1960s, emerging from the Beats, his films are dense cut-ups to do with themes like science and spirituality, religious mania and Cold War paranoia, Apocalypse and nuclear melt-down, consumerism and nothingness, rituals and machines, all that good stuff.
The films started out as the sound collages finely presented here in a top-notch pressing — tightly compacted clips of spoken word (Marshall MacLuhan, religious loons, Newsreel announcers, TV scientists, bullshit politicians), in with noise (factories, helicopters, bombs) and music (jazz, gospel, parade-ground, church) — sometimes manipulated, often highly rhythmic, stlll so captivating and chilling.