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Home > Posts tagged "experimental film"
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    Dulac and Deren: Avant-garde Early Women Filmmakers

    Flicker Alley is proud to present this guest essay by Dr. Sabina Stent on avant-garde directors Germaine Dulac and Maya Deren. La Cigarette and La Souriante Mme. Beudet by Dulac and Meshes of the Afternoon by Deren are featured are Early Women [...]
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    12.5.2017
    by Flicker Alley
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    Reclaiming Film History: An Interview with Women Film Pioneers Project Manager Kate Saccone

    By Sarah Bastin Flicker Alley is proud to present this exclusive interview with Kate Saccone, Project Manager of the Women Film Pioneers Project at Columbia University and author of the booklet essay for Early Women Filmmakers: An International Anthology. [...]
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    28.4.2017
    by Flicker Alley
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    Santa Monica! Win Tickets to Henri-Georges Clouzot Double Feature Screening!

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    24.6.2016
    by Flicker Alley
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    EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW:
    Blackhawk Films® Collection’s David Shepard on MOD Blu-rays Five American Experimental Films of the 1950s and The Ghost That Never Returns (1930)

    By Sarah Bastin Film historian and preservationist David Shepard is the founder of Film Preservation Associates, the owner of Blackhawk Films® Collection and the producer of many Flicker Alley titles, including Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film 1920-1970, Chaplin’s […]

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    13.6.2016
    by Flicker Alley
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    “A Lifetime of Study, of Poetry, Music, Painting, Film and Vision Went into Any and All of Stan’s Work” | Interview with Marilyn Brakhage

    Stan Brakhage had a voracious appetite for visionary experience in all forms. Not only did Brakhage pursue a radical approach to filmmaking between 1953 and 2003, he also lectured widely and wrote on the history of cinema, art, literature and aesthetics, […]

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    18.12.2015
    by Flicker Alley
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    How Avant-Garde Filmmakers Achieve the Impossible: Interview with Bruce Baillie

    Bruce Baillie is one of the great figures in American avant-garde filmmaking. Since 1960, he has produced a body of films unsurpassed for their lyrical sensuality, expressive honesty and formal inventiveness. His 1966 film, Castro Street (The Coming of Consciousness) transforms a walk down a […]

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    11.11.2015
    by Flicker Alley
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    Avant-garde Filmmaker Lawrence Jordan on the Magic of Film, Joseph Cornell, and San Francisco’s Art Scene

    Experimental filmmaker and artist Lawrence Jordan is known as a maverick spirit in the avant-garde world. A key figure in San Francisco’s avant-garde art scene in the 1950s-60s, Jordan also played a pivotal role in the expansion of the Film Department […]

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    13.10.2015
    by Flicker Alley
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    Maya Deren the “New and Emphatic Voice” of Experimental Film – 1946 Review

    The National Board of Review’s Committee on Exceptional Motion Pictures reviewed three experimental films by Maya Deren for their March 1946 issue of New Movies magazine, including Meshes of the Afternoon, part of Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film […]

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    2.10.2015
    by Flicker Alley
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    Donald Sosin on Composing New Scores for Manhatta & Other Avant-garde Restorations

    In this Flicker Alley exclusive, Donald Sosin describes his journey to becoming one of today’s leading silent film composers and his method behind creating new scores for four of the films included in Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film 1920-1970: Manhatta, The […]

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    22.9.2015
    by Flicker Alley
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    “Jonas Mekas was definitely the driving force of that movement in his quiet.” – Interview with Wendy Clarke

    Daughter of acclaimed independent filmmaker Shirley Clarke, Wendy Clarke grew up immersed in the avant-garde art film culture of New York in the 1960s. Her wedding is the focus of the “Wendy’s Wedding” vignette in Jonas Mekas’  Walden: Diaries, Notes and […]

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    11.9.2015
    by Flicker Alley
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    Images from Ballet Mechanique (1923-24)

    Ballet Mechanique (1923-24) by Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy is a Dadaist post-Cubist art film. The film has undergone a 2K digital restoration from 35mm for the Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film 1920-1970 Blu-ray/DVD collection with music by George Antheil from original [...]
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    11.8.2015
    by Flicker Alley
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    A New Realism – The Object (Its Plastic and Cinematic Graphic Value)

    By Fernand Léger Every effort in the line of spectacle or moving picture should be concentrated on bringing out the values of the object—even at the expense of the subject and of every other so called photographic element of […]

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    11.8.2015
    by Flicker Alley
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