In 1997 on a visit to America, Austrian filmmaker Martina Kudlacek rang the doorbell of the Anthology Film Archives in New York City. Anthology’s director, filmmaker Jonas Mekas, opened the door as he ...

The origins of avant-garde cinema date to the silent era, when artists in the 1920s like Man Ray, Fernand Léger, Marcel ...

In the 1920s, a new kind of movie started showing in Paris theatres, and the audiences were… confused. These movies were a radical departure from the ones they had known until then. These new films ...

Abstraction and rhythm 21 -- "Cinema pur" and Ballet mécanique -- Dada, Entr'acte and Paris qui dort -- Surrealism and Un chien andalou -- City symphony and Man with a movie camera -- Film, ...

Over 20 years after her death, the work of this remarkable Yugoslav experimental cinematographer remains unjustifiably marginalised. Vukica Djilas was an artist of Yugoslav experimental cinematography ...

Still, no one could accuse the programmers of pandering to their audience. “Views from the Avant-Garde” indisputably reflects their very particular tastes, and this year’s program was more hermetic ...

Foreword / [Barry Bergdoll] -- Acknowledgments -- Notes to the reader -- Introduction : the G-Group and the European Avant-Garde / Detlef Mertins and Michael W. Jennings -- Contains graphic material : ...

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to experience 30 beautiful, provocative, and poetic avant-garde films that are part of “21st Century Limited: Experimental Films 2000-2009” on July 18th and 25th.

In the early part of the twentieth century across Europe different Avant-Garde groups were formulating new visions of art and life to spur the continent into a future of their making. One recurrent ...