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The Films of Polish Women Artists in the 1970s and 1980s

story © Michael Betancourt | published April 25, 2005 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  Print



research: AVANT-GARDE MOVIES

The Screening Series Program has detailed notes and information about each artist and their films. What is striking about these works is how critical they are of conceptual art, and, at the same time they employ the same modes as conceptual art from New York (for example).






 
Joan Hawkins' Cutting Edge

story © Michael Betancourt | published January 9, 2005 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  Print



research: AVANT-GARDE MOVIES

Joan Hawkins, Cutting Edge: Art-Horror and the Horrific Avant-garde (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2000), 326pp. Pb. ISBN 0-8166-3414-9

This review argues that Hawkins contributes an important argument to contemporary debates on the subversiveness of "art-horror" in destabilising common assumptions of taste and the aesthetic strategies of underground movies generally.






 
Jonas Mekas in Context

story © Michael Betancourt | published January 6, 2005 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  Print



research: AVANT-GARDE MOVIES

Jeffrey Ruoff puts Jonas Mekas into a historical context in this article from To Free the Cinema: Jonas Mekas and the New York Underground.






 
Bruce Posner's Intro to Unseen Cinema

story © Michael Betancourt | published January 4, 2005 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  Print



research: AVANT-GARDE MOVIES

Bruce Posner's Introduction to Unseen Cinema can be read on-line. Posner argues against the European-art centric model for the appearance of an art-as-cinema, presenting his Unseen Cinema programs as the proof for the argument he makes in this article.




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Guy Madden Interview

story © Michael Betancourt | published December 22, 2004 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  Print



research: AVANT-GARDE MOVIES

Scott Shrake has written an interview with Guy Madden, the Canadian Experimentalist.