Bio:

Born in 1975, Brian Frye is a filmmaker and curator currently living in New York City. He is originally from a crummy suburban town in Northern California, which he visits as infrequently as possible. Studies at UC Berkeley and the San Francisco Art Institute were followed by a truly dismal period of incarceration at NYU. He currently runs the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema with Bradley Eros, as well as keeping his grubby fingers in any number of other projects.

Filmography/Awards Info:

Filmography (incomplete)
2001
Circuit (16mm, color, sil, 8m)
Sunday Morning (16mm, b/w, sil, 2m)
Wormwood's Dog and Monkey Show (16mm, b/w, snd, 11m)
Gabriel (16mm, b/w, sil, 1m)
Nadja (16mm, color, sil, 3m)
Arcadia, or an Eclectic History of the American Century (in progress)
(16mm, color & b/w, snd, 45m)

2000
The Eels of Chicago (16mm, b/w, sil, 2m)
TV Assassin (s-8, b/w, snd, 15m)
In Love With Love (16mm, b/w, snd, 3m)
Self-Portrait as Kaspar Hauser (For T.C.) (16mm, color, sil, 3m)
Broken Camera Reels 1&2 (16m, b/w, sil, 5m)
Oona's Veil (16mm, b/w, snd, 8m)
St. John's Passion (s-8, b/w, sil/snd, 10m)
Lachrymae (16mm, color, sil, 3m)


1999
The Anatomy of Melancholy (16mm, b/w, snd, 11m)
1933. (r-8, b/w, snd, 9m)
(parenthesis) (16mm, b/w, snd, 5m)

1998
Francois Boue Services the Fragrance Machine at Bloomingdales
(16mm, color, snd, 3m)

1997
Meeting With Khruschev (16mm, b/w, sil, 35m)
Ladies Day (s-8, b/w, snd, 8m)
World's Fair and Exhibition (16mm, b/w, sil, 35m)
1997: untitled (16mm, b/w, sil, 3m)
Interventions (in progress) (s-8, color & b/w, sil/snd, ?m.)
Nausea (video, b/w, snd, 60m)

1996
Expression and Meaning (s-8, b/w, sil, 15m)

1995
6.95: striptease (16mm, b/w, sil, 3m)
9.95: the most important moment in my life (infinite set) (16mm, b/w, sil, 3m.)
Ozymandias (r-8, color, snd, 30m)
3.95: untitled (16mm, b/w, sil, 3m)

1994
11.94: untitled (16mm, color, sil, 3m)






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Oona’s Veil directed by Bryan Frye USA, Experimental, 2000, 16mm, 00:08:00 Perhaps the only film-record of Oona Chaplin (nee O'Neill), this screen-test was made for a film in which she was cast but never appeared. Hers was quite possibly the briefest ever film career, and some say ... more info

Compilations containing Oona’s Veil
	Commercial DVD Peripheral Produce (MC-180) All Time Greatest Hits	2003	Available from the Microcinema DVD Store

None of this person's films have ever been screened

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