Movies: Mark Ellinger

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

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....

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

A musical revue of lewd routines....

"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....

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....

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

A series of vignettes illustrating sexual fantasies....

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

An hour-long saga of Mick Terrific, rock 'n' roll star, and the cast of 50 he encounters on his search for "Mr. Wonderful." “PEED INTO THE WIND smears across the screen like one of those dirty underground comic books. It’s loaded with a lot of big s...

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....

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...

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