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  • London's Arts Labs and the 60s Avant-Garde

    This is the story of two short-lived artist-run spaces that are associated with some of the most innovative developments in the arts in Britain in the late 1960s. The Drury Lane Arts Lab (1967–69) was home to the first UK screenings of Andy Warhol's twin-screen 3 hour film Chelsea Girls, challenging exhibitions (John and Yoko / John Latham / Takis / Roelof Louw), poetry and music (first UK performance of Erik Satie's 24-hour Vexations) and fringe theatre (People Show / Freehold / Jane Arden's Vagina Rex and the Gas Oven / Will Spoor Mime Theatre).

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    24,99 GBP

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  • Cosmic Scholar - The Life and Times of Harry Smith

    “The first comprehensive biography of this hipster magus . . . [John Szwed] allows different sides of Smith’s personality to catch blades of sun. He brings the right mixture of reverence and comic incredulity to his task.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times

    Grammy Award–winning music scholar and celebrated biographer John Szwed presents the first biography of Harry Smith, the brilliant eccentric who transformed twentieth century art and culture.

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    Paperback - 22 USD
    Hardcover - 33 USD
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  • New Utopia, Light Fracture by Luther Price

    Luther Price came to Visual Studies Workshop as a visiting artist in 2017 to give a week-long workshop on hand-made film. Though the workshop ended tumultuously, Price maintained a sporadic and sometimes fraught correspondence with VSW Press editor Tate Shaw. The project was temporarily tabled, and Price died in 2020 at the age of 58.

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    50 USD

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  • Linda Christanell - The Nature of Expression

    One of the traditional tasks of the film avant-garde is to show what cinema is capable of when it is released from literary stories, from narration: how to interweave seemingly unrelated pictures, how to convert outer and inner spaces into a synthetic, un

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    36.00 EUR

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  • Sonic Fiction - Synaesthetic Videos from Austria

    A DVD release celebrating the extraordinary young video and electronic music scene in Austria. These are radical avant-garde works that emerge logically from modern electronic music. The images sometimes tie in with the earliest pure abstract avant-garde

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    36.00 EUR

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  • Manfred Neuwirth - [ma] Trilogy

    With his sensitive awareness, Neuwirth, got hold of dream-like pictures, which in his words, he allows to clatter, make loud noises, hum, thunder and sing.
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    36.00 EUR

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  • Mara Mattuschka - Iris Scan

    In this broad sampling of works, Bulgarian-born, Vienna-based Mara Mattuschka playfully moves through motherhood to monster flicks ­ where an alien, out on the town, wreaks havoc of epic proportions. Androgynous star Mimi Minus infuses mischievous humor and strange wisdom into the existence of Mattuschka´s characters.

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    36.00 EUR

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  • Herman, Todd - Forbidden Acts: And Other Poems By Leroy Moore

    Poetry. African American studies. Confrontative, meditative, and sensuous, FORBIDDEN ACTS, a film by Todd Herman, showcases three poems by black disabled advocate and writer Leroy Moore. Herman\'s provocative imagery seamlessly intertwines with Moore\'s e

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    10.00 USD

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  • Frank & Caroline Mouris - Five By Two

    This hard-to-find compilation of five shorts by Frank and Caroline Mouris includes the Academy Award-winning 'Frank Film' alongside companion-piece 'Frankly Caroline', Screentest', 'Coney' and 'Impasse', a homage to Oskar Fischinger.

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    15.00 GBP

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  • Joseph Morder - 4 Feature Films

    This Box set shows the evolution of Joseph Morder\\\\\\\'s work through four major films (El Cantor ,L\\\\\\\'arbre Mort, Mémoires D\\\\\\\'un Juif Tropical, Romamor).

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    44.25 USD

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