Since the creation of the camera and the dawn of cinema, film has been one long experiment. Experimental film has often been defined through its rejection of traditional storytelling and structure, ...

The Ann Arbor Film Festival not only advertises but embraces the avant-garde, and nothing screams avant-garde quite like short films. Tuesday, March 25 was the opening night of the Ann Arbor Film ...

Kenneth Anger, the experimental filmmaker, actor and author who directed nearly 40 short films, including the homoerotic “Fireworks” and “Scorpio Rising,” has died, according to the Sprüeth Magers art ...

Tackling the best of the avant-garde in 2001 is a thankfully daunting task. Despite rumors of its death, a renaissance of experimental moving-image art has erupted in recent years, with New York as ...

The 1970s represented a period of revival in Polish art which, among other aspects, manifested itself in the interest artists took in new media. A strong tendency to engage with the moving image was ...

Stay on top of what’s happening in the Bay Area with essential Bay Area news stories, sent to your inbox every weekday. See Senior Director of TV Programming Meredith Speight’s recommendations from ...

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.

The beauty of film as art is that it contains a variety of forms. It can be a fictional, narrative story that springs out of the imagination of a writer, or a documentary that details historical ...

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