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Treasures IV: American Avant-Garde Film, 1947-1986
Treasures IV presents works by 27 filmmakers, from Bruce Baillie to Andy Warhol, who changed cinema in the decades following World War II. The line-up reads like a who\'s who of the avant-garde world and includes films by luminaries such as Stan Brakhage

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National Film Preservation Foundation
Jonas Mekas - Walden - Diaries, Notes and Sketches
Poet and hero of the American counter-culture, Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania in 1922, invented the diary form of film-making. Walden, his first completed diary film, an epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s, is also a groundbreak

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Olivia Boudreau
Pip Chodorov - Nine portraits
Pip Chodorov's portraits of filmmakers, produced for ARTE tv channel between December 2001 and June 2004.

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A Critical Cinema 2: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers
"This sequel to A Critical Cinema offers a new collection of interviews with independent filmmakers that is a feast for film fans and film historians. Scott MacDonald reveals the sophisticated thinking of these artists regarding film, politics, and contemporary gender issues. The interviews explore the careers of Robert Breer, Trinh T. Minh-ha, James Benning, Su Friedrich, and Godfrey Reggio. Yoko Ono discusses her cinematic collaboration with John Lennon, Michael Snow talks about his music and films, Anne Robertson describes her cinematic diaries, Jonas Mekas and Bruce Baillie recall the New York and California avant-garde film culture. The selection has a particularly strong group of women filmmakers, including Yvonne Rainer, Laura Mulvey, and Lizzie Borden. Other notable artists are Anthony McCall, Andrew Noren, Ross McElwee, Anne Severson, and Peter Watkins."

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University of California Press
Eyes Upside Down:Visionary Filmmakers & the Heritage of Emersson
Sitney analyzes in detail the work of eleven American avant-garde filmmakers as heirs to the aesthetics of exhilaration and innovative vision articulated by Ralph Waldo Emerson and explored by John Cage, Charles Olson and Gertrude Stein. The films discussSitney analyzes in detail the work of eleven American avant-garde filmmakers as heirs to the aesthetics of exhilaration and innovative vision articulated by Ralph Waldo Emerson and explored by John Cage, Charles Olson and Gertrude Stein. The films discussed span the sixty years since the Second World War.
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Oxford University Press
Experimenta Weekend 2011

By Marcos Ortega on Sun, 16/10/2011 - 13:09
Experimenta Weekend, the avant-garde and experimental films strand of the London Film Festival returns once again on October 21-23. Curated by Mark Webber, together with Adam Pugh and Marina Ribera, this year's edition includes highlights such as Jonas Mekas' Sleepless Night Stories, and his correspondence with Spanish filmmaker José Luis Guerín, sessions dedicated to Portuguese filmmaker Gabriel Abrantes and Chick Strand, with newly restored prints of classics such as Loose ends and Cartoon le Mousse.

As in previous years, the section presents a selection of the most recent experimental works, including the latest films and videos by Nathaniel Dorsky (The return), Ben Rivers (Sack Barrow and Two years at sea), James Benning (Twenty cigarettes) and Phil Solomon (American Falls), who is also the protagonist of 'Feel flows', a partial retrospective at Tate Modern.
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Home movie of homelessness

By Marcos Ortega on Sun, 22/11/2009 - 16:40
Jonathan Rosenbaum's review of 'Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania'.
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Film and Film and Film: An interview with Jonas Mekas

By Marcos Ortega on Wed, 11/11/2009 - 01:59
Film and Film and Film: An interview with Jonas Mekas by John Lanthier for the Bright Lights Film Journal.
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Jona Mekas in Paris

By Marcos Ortega on Sat, 17/10/2009 - 12:05
Two upcoming events for those living in Paris or planning a trip there in the next few days:

- On October 21th, an encounter with Jonas Mekas, including the projection of '13 of 365' a selecion of 13 films from the 365 Project. At the ENSBA (Mediatheque) - 14 Rue Bonaparte - 75006 Paris.

- On October 22th-25th, at the FIAC 2009 fair you'll be able to see Quartets, a videoinstallation created by Jonas Mekas in 2007. FIAC - Stand A22 - Cour Carrée du Louvre, Rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris. Presented by The Film Gallery in collaboration with La Galerie Du Jour Agnes B.
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Visions of Warhol
Scenes from the life of Andy Warhol, as seen by four pioneer avant-garde film-makers and close friends of the Pop-artist.Scenes from the life of Andy Warhol, as seen by four pioneer avant-garde film-makers and close friends of the Pop-artist.
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Re:voir