Aphrodisiac I

1972 Experimental film by Ian Hugo (Hugh Parker Guiler) starring Yass Hakashima and Renate Boué of the Yass Hakoshima Movement Theatre. Cinematography: Bob Hanson; Music: David Horowitz

A perfect fusion of poetry and film, with dense layered imagery and music from electro pioneers Louise and Bebe Barron. The writer Anaïs Nin provides dialogue from her novella “House of Incest” and appears adrift in the undersea realm of Atlantis before ascending to dry land.

The elements of Ai-Ye (Mankind), by the noted etcher & engraver Ian Hugo, consist of footage shot in various parts of the South American Coast. From this rich and ageless material he has created a beautiful, moving allegory of Man's universal story through the milleniums. This vivid, experimental documentary film has a sound accompaniment of drums and native chants improvised by Osbourne Smith.

Inspiration for Stan Brakhage's THE DEAD. Screened at 1958 Brussels Film Festival

experimental short

Existing in a liminal space, breasts float among various bodies of water. A literal description that doesn't do it justice...

Film by Ian Hugo.

A film study of Venice in all seasons, made from scenes shot from a gondola.

A pulsating city symphony of light, movement, and electronic music, transforming Times Square in the 1950s into what Hugo’s wife, the writer Anaïs Nin, called "an ephemeral flow of sensations.”

A film of two dimensions, the horizontal and the frontal, which are juxtaposed to introduce a third plane, the central. With sound and color, each plane depicts movements which portray the familiar sights of Venice.