This installation screens newly digitised Super 8 footage: both his early performances inside theatres and in public spaces, and footage he shot himself, throughout the world but always returning to Indonesia, in the 60s and 70s.
For example, for a skit in which Mr. O'Brien appeared to bring the Kentucky Derby-winning horse Mine That Bird onstage while showing Super Bowl footage on a television screen, Ms. Dart said, "the horse was a standard rental and the Super Bowl footage wasn't from the N.F.L".
She's in the Super 8 footage, projected on a screen, that her mother, an archaeologist, shot while the family was living in prerevolutionary Iran.
Directed by Jérôme de Missolz, the film intercuts these wine-soaked musings with Super 8 footage from the late '70s and searing performances by new, little-known bands.
In the Visions category, which includes some films that the programmers consider boundary-pushing, festivalgoers can find "Our Nixon," made up of Super 8 footage recorded by three of Nixon's closest aides.
The 1972 documentary Manson, based on the book, is worth watching for the original Super 8 footage of Spahn Ranch, the girls singing Look At Your Love outside the courthouse and Manson's soaring oration.
Don't miss: The Genome Chronicles made by Rodney's friend the film-maker John Akomfrah, which combines Super 8 footage taken by Rodney with Akomfrah's own personal memories of the artist.
Nov. 14 "I FOR INDIA" Sandhya Suri's documentary draws on Super 8 footage filmed by her father, an Indian who emigrated to England in 1965, to portray one family's experience in cultural transition.
Dr. Sacks's first book, Awakenings," which recounts the revival of catatonic patients with the drug L-dopa, is the inspiration for a ballet suite, aHarold Pinter play (adapted for sign language), and a lyrical film edited from lost Super 8 footage taken by the doctor himself.
Our Nixon, showing this month at Open City Docs Fest in London, draws on almost 30 hours of unseen Super 8 footage shot inside the White House, and on international state visits, by Nixon's chief of staff HR Haldeman, domestic affairs adviser John Ehrlichman and special assistant Dwight Chapin.
