While the collective continues to add new clips to their database regularly, they've also spun off in myriad directions, with frenetic live shows and film festivals, which have become institutions in their own right, featuring EIT members performing absurdist comedy acts and presenting curated found-footage collections.
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The oldest footage in the collection is a two-shot Edison actuality film of 1898, showing a passenger train — the Southern Pacific's Sunset Limited — gliding through a desert landscape.
The majority of the audio and video footage of the collection is devoted to the Sakha (Yakut), an indigenous people from the Sakha Republic of the Russian Federation, formerly known as the Yakut ASSR (Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic).
WATCH: Footage from our collection shows what US forces discovered when they liberated #Buchenwald.
Pretend We're Dead will pick of more than 100 hours of archived footage from Sparks's collection.
The classic of the genre is Heavy Metal Parking Lot, a lovably goofy collection of footage of fans in the car park of a Maryland arena before a 1986 Judas Priest concert.
One abandoned project of the director's is called Fight Harm, a collection of footage showing him picking fights with people in the street and getting his ass kicked, a little like the Kentucky Fried Movie sketch.
Conventional wisdom cites New York as the capital of postwar creativity, but the ambitious exhibition "Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde," at MOMA, traces a parallel history through some three hundred objects — from paintings and sculptures to documentary footage — many from its collection (Nov. 18).
