10th anniversary Experiments in Cinema Best of Show

story © Michael Betancourt | published March 17, 2015 | permalink |  |  

The Best of Experiments in Cinema at the Southwest Film Center at the University of New Mexico, 6 pm Friday March 20

Tickets are $5

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story © Michael Betancourt | published March 11, 2015 | permalink |  |  

My movie Dancing Glitch is in Crossroads, Program 4: forward reverse read write: conjectures about the animal

In Person: Michael Betancourt; Karissa Hahn; Jeremy Moss; Deborah Stratman

Screening on Saturday, April 11, 2015 at 4:00 pm:

Cicatrix (2014) by Jeremy Moss
Soon (2014, Bay Area premiere) by Jeanne Liotta
Dancing Glitch (2013) by Michael Betancourt
L’entre Deux (2014) by Karl Lemieux
Sayre’s Vapor (2013, world premiere) by Karissa Hahn
Conjectures (2013) by Pablo Mazzolo
As Near as Light (2014, world premiere) by Susan DeLeo
Second Sighted (2014, Bay Area premiere) by Deborah Stratman
The Golden Hour (2014; Bay Area premiere) by Ross Meckfessel
Laborat (2014, Bay Area premiere) by Guillaume Cailleau
Jenny Haniver (2014, world premiere) by Stephen Broomer.

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story © Michael Betancourt | published February 26, 2015 | permalink |  |  

story © Michael Betancourt | published February 13, 2015 | permalink |  |  

The Museum of Modern Art in New York began a bibliographic indexing project focused on the history and criticism of motion pictures with The New York City WPA Writer’s Project, following the organization of the museum’s “Film Library” in 1935. This project, developed over several years was completed as a three volume survey of English language publications about motion pictures in 1941.

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story © Michael Betancourt | published January 30, 2015 | permalink |  |  

There are lots of histories published about US avant-garde film. Here's an extended list of some of them, arranged in order of publication year:

Frank Stauffacher and Richard Foster, Art in Cinema (catalog, 1946)

Lewis Jacobs, “Experimental Cinema in America 1921-1947” in The Rise of the American Film (1948)

Roger Manvell, Experiment in the Film (1949)

Robert Pike, A Critical Study of the West Coast Experimental Film Movement (UCLA dissertation, 1960)

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