Between 1958 and his death in 1987, Will Hindle (b. Shreveport, LA, 1929) created ten defiantly personal and formally rigorous 16mm films that challenge the limits of cinematic form and gesture towards what writer Gene Youngblood, borrowing from Freud, termed “Oceanic Consciousness” in his landmark text Expanded Cinema:

BETWEEN US - INTIMACY
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY CHRISTIAN FLEMM
Friday, June 27, 2025, at 8:00 PM
at Espace En Cours, 56 rue de la Réunion, Paris 20th arrondissement
Buzenval, Avron, A. Dumas metro station

Christian Flemm is invited to Espace en Cours to present his first and latest 16mm films alongside film works intertwined with his practice as a teacher and film restorer.

Tone Glow is excited to announce “Unknown Nostalgia,” the first complete retrospective of Will Hindle’s filmography. Will Hindle (1929-1987) was an American filmmaker whose striking and innovative use of experimental film techniques led to the creation of a small but mighty body of work. Born in Louisiana and later relocating to Los Angeles, he grew up with an actress mother, which led to him having various stints as a child actor. He would attend Stanford University, live in San Francisco, and then relocate to rural Alabama.

1967 was the year that the Canyon Cinema Co-op was born in San Francisco. Formed as a  distribution cooperative for films made by members, it grew out of the itinerant Canyon Cinema formed a few years earlier by a loose association of Bay Area artist-filmmakers. The Canyon Co-Op was the west coast’s contribution to a growing international network for showing and seeing films that fell outside the bounds of polite manners, censors’ approval, and art-world decorum.