DA SPEECH: AN INTERNATIONAL PROJECT
Creating/Collaborating on the Music/Animation/Agitprop Masterpiece in Cyberspace
[ARTICLE BY STEVE BISSETTE]
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A Talk with SIMON STOCKHAUSEN
...about ‘da Speech’ and the Project...
[INTERVIEW BY STEVE BISSETTE]
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Filmography:


SKYHOOK (cinematography only; training film, USMC Seal Team/Rescue, for Fulton Co. and OmniVision Inc., CIA, 1966)

STRIKE CITY (30 min. B&W- cinematography, edited, co-directed - 1967) [Note: Award: Blue Ribbon, American Film Festival]

BDRG: BOSTON DRAFT RESISTANCE GROUP (20 min.; cinematography, Newsreel Group, 1968)

DIE-CAST GRILLS (15 min.; cinematography, edited, directed - 1968)

SUMMER '68 (1 hr.; cinematography, edited, co-directed, Newsreel Group, 1968)

PEOPLES' WAR
(50 min; cinematography, edited, with Robert Kramer and Norman Fruchter, Newsreel Group, 1969) [Note: Awards: First Prize, American Film Festival, Golden Bear Award, Moscow International Film Festival]

CECIL (30 min.; cinematography, edited, co-directed, 1970) [Note: John Douglas’s first Vermont film]

FREE FARM (15 min.; cinematography, edited, co-directed, 1970) [Note: Putney, VT]

TO OUR COMMON VICTORY
(30 min.; edited, co-directed, 1971)

KASKAWULSH (30 min.; cinematography, edited, directed, 1972) [aka GLACIER FILM]

MILESTONES (226 min. approx; cinematography, edited, co-directed with Robert Kramer, 1975) [Note: John also acted in this feature; Awards: Critics Choice Award, Cannes Film Festival; New York Film Festival; London Film Festival; First Prize, Internation Film Festival, Portugal.]

THE VERDICT (60 min., video; videography, edited, co-directed, 1976)

HUNTER COLLEGE NOW (15 min.; cinematography only, 1977)

PORTRAIT of a PUERTO RICAN ARTIST: JORGE SOTO (20 min.; cinematography, research, scripting, 1977)

CRIC, CRAC (cinematography, 1978) [Note: Played international festivals.]

BARRIO LOGAN POR VIDA (cinematography, 1979)

RAPE OF REALITY (60 min., cinematography, 1979) [Note: produced by Cobra Films, Sweden]

STAND UP GRENADA (60 min., cinematography, edited, co-directed, 1979) [Note: Awards: Latin American International Film Festival, Havana, Cuba]

DISARMAMENT: THE QUESTION OF CONVERSION
(cinematography, 1980) [Note: produced for the United Nations by Swedish TV]

GRENADA: NOBODY’S BACKYARD (cinematography, 1980) [Note: Covert Action Bulletin Production]

I'M NOT REALLY A WAITRESS (15 min., cinematography, edited, 1980) [Note: played Womens International Film Festival]

BIRDS and BUFFALOES (20 min., cinematography, animated, edited, directed, 1981)

LA LOGAN (30 min., cinematography, edited, co-directed, 1981) [Note: Played Latin American International Film Festival, Havana, Cuba

GRENADA: THE FUTURE COMING TOWARDS US (60 min., cinematography, edited, directed, 1983)
[Note: Played at Latin American International Film Festival, Havana, Cuba; Leipzig International Festival Award; The Public Theater, NYC; Nigerian National Television to NHK, Japan; etc.]

ROUTE ONE (editing only, 1988; feature film directed by Robert Kramer, Films D’Ici, Paris)

LOVE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, NOT THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT (computer animation on video, 1988) [Note: Special Jury Award Political Video, NationalJournalists Conference Halls/Walls Gallery, Buffalo, NY]

QUEBEC/VERMONT ARTISTS: ACID RAIN PROJECT (computer animation on video, 1989) [Note: work showed in LaMacaza Gallery, Quebec, and Coburn Gallery/Metropolitan Gallery in Burlington, Vermont

WHITE NOISE (4 min., computer animation, 1990) [Note: Music by Erich Kory; Awards: Special Jury Award / Earth Peace Film Festival, Burlington]

THOUGHT I SAW (30 min., computer animation, 1991) [Note: Music by Erich Kory, performed in 'Le Violoncelle a toutes les cordes' Festival, Montreal, Quebec

THE HEART OF IT (7min. computer animation, 1992) [Note: Music by Erich Kory; Awards: First Prize, AT&T's 1992 International Graphics/Animation Competition]

REVELATION (2 min., computer animation, 1992) [Note: Music by Erich Kory; Produced by P.C.S.I. and Alan Waxenberg, distribution by DIVA Corporation on Interactive-CD Video Disk]

UNDERNEATH...A NOSTALGIA FOR PAINT... (5 min., computer animation, 1993) [Note: Music by Erich Kory; shown at the Walker Art Center as part of ISEA'93, ISEA'93 annual show reel]

OUR BONES (10 min., computer animation, 1994) St.Johnsbury Screening – Vermont Filmmaker Series

DEMO REEL (10 min., computer animation, 1995)

WHITEHOUSE (14 minutes, computer animation, 1998/2000)) [Note: Music by Erich Kory]
[Note: Awards: Bessie Award, 2000, for “Outstanding Creative Vision”)

DA SPEECH (8 min., computer animation, 2003) [Note: Awards: James Goldstone Vermont Filmmakers Award]