Curated with Hong Kong’s M+ museum, the 'Between Tides' slate brings landmark experimental works from across the region to ...
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Avant-Garde Cinema: What Is It and Why It Matters
In the 1920s, a new kind of movie started showing in Paris theatres, and the audiences were… confused. These movies were a radical departure from the ones they had known until then. These new films ...
The 1970s represented a period of revival in Polish art which, among other aspects, manifested itself in the interest artists took in new media. A strong tendency to engage with the moving image was ...
Since the creation of the camera and the dawn of cinema, film has been one long experiment. Experimental film has often been defined through its rejection of traditional storytelling and structure, ...
In 1928, directors Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, and Grigori Alexandrov began a collective statement with a declaration: “Our cherished dreams of a sound cinema are being realized.” It was a ...
Quick, name Orson Welles’s first movie. Citizen Kane, right? Guess again. It’s The Hearts of Age, which the 19-year-old prodigy co-directed with a friend in 1934. This eight-minute trifle isn’t much ...
In 1997 on a visit to America, Austrian filmmaker Martina Kudlacek rang the doorbell of the Anthology Film Archives in New York City. Anthology’s director, filmmaker Jonas Mekas, opened the door as he ...
The Mimesis Documentary Festival returns to Boulder’s Dairy Arts Center and streaming screens everywhere for its third year, from Tuesday, August 2, through Sunday, August 7. The film festival, which ...
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to experience 30 beautiful, provocative, and poetic avant-garde films that are part of “21st Century Limited: Experimental Films 2000-2009” on July 18th and 25th.
Avant-garde filmmaker, co-founder of Anthology Film Archives and Film Culture, and much more, NYC icon Jonas Mekas has died at age 96. “Jonas passed away quietly and peacefully early this morning. He ...
Still, no one could accuse the programmers of pandering to their audience. “Views from the Avant-Garde” indisputably reflects their very particular tastes, and this year’s program was more hermetic ...
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