Time Will Tell: The 13th Annual Views From the Avant-Garde and the Walking Picture Palace Patrick Friel December 2009 Festival Reports The end of the year is always a time of reflection and consideration; the end of a decade even more so. As I’ve been working on a “Best Experimental Films of 2000-2009” list, mulling over the thousands of films...
Moving Forward, Looking Back: The European Avant-garde and the Invention of Film Culture, 1919-1939 by Malte Hagener Paul Fileri July 2009 Book Reviews Malte Hagener’s Moving Forward, Looking Back: The European Avant-garde and the Invention of Film Culture, 1919-1939 offers a remarkably multifaceted and compelling historical study of the European cinematic ava...
Treasures IV: American Avant-Garde Film, 1947-1986 (Image Entertainment) Wheeler Winston Dixon July 2009 DVD Reviews This 2-disc DVD set from the National Film Preservation Foundation and Image Entertainment covers an era of filmmaking that is almost lost to authentic recall; an era when individual artists were able to make f...
History is Written with Light: The 12th Annual Views from the Avant-Garde Patrick Friel March 2009 Festival Reports 3-5 October 2008 New York City in early October 2008 seemed to be feeling the weight of impending history. Obama filled the air, from the patter of the homeless (“Obama ain’t the only one who wants chang...