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Underground - American Avant-Garde Film in the 1960s

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 06/08/2024 - 06:33

This autumn, Eye Filmmuseum spotlights American avant-garde cinema of the 1960s. The exhibition and extensive accompanying programme feature screenings of both iconic and lesser-known films, highlighting the explosion of formal experimentation in artistic filmmaking of the period.
Dates:
Sunday, October 13, 2024 (All day) to Sunday, January 5, 2025 (All day)
Venue:
Eye Film Institute - Amsterdam, Netherlands
Radicales Libres - Freedom: The Cinema of Yoko Ono

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 28/08/2018 - 08:27

Yoko Ono's films occupy a central place in the history of American experimental cinema in the decade of the 1960s, a time of special creative effervescence, a time of formal, industrial, artistic and political challenges, and an era in which cinema began to be seen, without complexes, by many artists as a mean of expression and experimentation at the same level as that of performance, plastic arts or sound art.
Dates:
Saturday, September 8, 2018 - 21:00 to Sunday, September 9, 2018 - 20:55
Venue:
Filmoteca Española - Cine Doré - Madrid, Spain
Experimental Cinema: The Film Reader

Horak J-C, Mekas J, Rabinovitz L, Varda A, Suárez JAntonio, Ganguly S, Tartaglia J, Haug K, Wolf R, Chin D et al.. 2002. Experimental Cinema: The Film Reader. :356pp.
Contents:

Introduction: Toward a new history of the experimental cinema

Part one. Origins of the American avant-garde cinema, 1920-1959.
- The first American film avant-garde, 1919-1945 / Jan-Christopher Horak
- Notes on the new American cinema / Jonas Mekas
- The woman filmmaker in the New York avant-garde / Lauren Rabinovitz
- Women in the avant-garde: Germaine Dulac, Maya Deren, Agnès Varda, Chantal Akerman, and Trinh T. Minh-ha / Agnès Varda
Flesh Cinema: The Corporeal Turn in American Avant-Garde Film
Flesh Cinema: The Corporeal Turn in American Avant-Garde Film explores the groundbreaking representation of the body in experimental films of the 1960s and 1970s. Focusing on sexually explicit films by Andy Warhol, Barbara Rubin, Stan Brakhage, Carolee Schneemann, Yoko Ono and Paul Sharits, this book demonstrates how experimental cinema not only transformed American visual culture, but also the lives of those who created it. By situating these films in relation to the civil rights and sexual liberation movements, Flesh Cinema investigates how social politics continue to inform their meaning.

Rating:

Average: 3.6 (5 votes)
Category:
Books
Publisher:
Manchester University Press
Jonas Mekas - The Sixties Quartet
Includes:

- Scenes From The Life Of Andy Warhol: Friendships And Intersections, 1990, 35’
- Zefiro Torna Or Scenes From The Life Of George Maciunas, 1992, 35’
- Happy Birthday To John, 1995, 24’
- This Side Of Paradise, 1999, 35’

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Average: 3 (4 votes)
Category:
DVD
Publisher:
Re:voir
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."

Rating:

Average: 2 (1 vote)
Category:
Books
Publisher:
University of California Press