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Kenneth Anger Interview

story © Michael Betancourt | published December 20, 2004 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  Print



research: AVANT-GARDE MOVIES

In conjunction with an exhibition of film stills in London, Kenneth Anger gave an interview published August 22,2004.




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Polish Avant-Garde Film

story © Michael Betancourt | published December 6, 2004 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  Print



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Marcin Gizycki has a nice history of the development of avant-garde film in Poland. "There was no organized avant-garde film movement in Poland before WW2, which does not mean that there were no avant-garde films made. This paradox is easily explained. A number of artists more or less connected with avant-garde circles worked separately on films or film-related projects...."






 
Larry Jordan Interview

story © Michael Betancourt | published November 30, 2004 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  Print



research: AVANT-GARDE MOVIES

Paul Karlstrom interviews Larry Jordan for the Archives of American Art in the Smithsonian Institution. Great discussion of his relationship to other film makers and artists.






 
Canadian Experimental Video

story © Michael Betancourt | published November 17, 2004 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  Print



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The Canadian Journal of Communication has an article called Magnetic North: Canadian Experimental Video, on experimental video made in Canada, "edited by American independent curator and film/video maker Jenny Lion, was conceived as a book/catalogue accompanying an exhibition screening series of the same name that Lion herself curated in association with Minneapoliss Walker Art Center. "






 
The Alchemy of Touch

story © Michael Betancourt | published October 21, 2004 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  Print



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On the surface is where Rey Parla works to make his movies by hand, based on his physical, immediate response to the scratched/painted layers of his marks on that film. His haptic approach is flexible: it explores the physical character of its objects as objects, not as symbolic representations. This is a distinctly non-verbal approach to making movies. It does away with language in order to document a more immediate, direct encounter with the movie: the many tiny pictures that are the film itself.




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