Avant-Garde and Experimental Film - a list by DLP

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Celebrate the collective body of work of the avant-garde and experimental filmmaking community and their commitment to bringing their personal passions and visions to life by viewing a sampling of some of the greatest and most fascinating critiques of mainstream culture to ever hit the screen.

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By Brakhage - Anthology

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This collection of 26 non-narrative short silent films from Stan Brakhage showcases Brakhage's unique range, from his hand-painted abstract textural and rhythmic pieces which are often likened to the work of Jackson Pollack to his exploration of difficult imagery such as autopsy footage and explicit sex.

Updated Dec 17, 2008

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Tarnation

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At age 11, Jonathan Caoette began filming his own life. At age 31, Caoette sorted through 20 years of video, audio, and photographs, compiling what became Tarnation, a psychedelic visual journal of his experiences as seen through the eyes of a boy who developed dissociative disorder after a local drug dealer gave him marijuana that had been laced with formaldehyde and PCP. Leading a horrifyingly disjointed childhood in this state, additionally fatherless with a frequently institutionalized mother, we watch as Caoette turns the camera on himself to reveal the raw honesty and emotion he comfortably exhibits despite his nightmarish surroundings.

Updated Dec 17, 2008

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Chantal Akerman Collection

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This is a collection of films by Belgian hyperrealist director Chantal Akerman, including "Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles," a feminist masterpiece exposing the life of a mother who whose daily regimen includes prostitution in order to make ends meet. Akerman provides commentary on the viewer's sense of objectivity by locking down the camera, allowing the scene to play out in front of the audience without acknowledging that the camera, by being present, and therefore, participant within the space, may have an effect upon what the subjects will allow us to see.

Updated Dec 17, 2008

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Benjamin Smoke

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Benjamin Smoke is a mesmerizing ten-year dreamlike documentary portrait by directors Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen following HIV-positive Atlanta underground musician Benjamin Dickerson to create a moody pastiche of this pill-popping drag queen philosopher poet through his roller coaster life and untimely death. Cohen and Sillen treat their intense subject with passion and positivity, opting to display the gritty reality of Benjamin's life while shying away from romanticizing his rebelliousness and penchant for excess.

Updated Dec 17, 2008

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Baraka

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Directed by Ron Fricke, the cinematographer of Koyaanisqatsi, Baraka wordlessly conveys the Earth-bound experience over the course of a day, spanning topics from the marvel of natural beauty and the destruction of nature to man's relationship with his surroundings, religion, and himself. The collection of images, set to a score by Michael Sterns, is meditative, insightful, and beautiful.

Updated Dec 17, 2008

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The Films of Kenneth Anger, Vol. 1

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The Films of Kenneth Anger, Volume One, includes Rabbit's Moon, my favorite of Anger's short films, which combines kubuki, mime, Japanese myth, and Crowleyan imagery to tell the tale of Pierrot who is discontent with his life. He craves more, trying, unsuccessfully, to possess the moon. He enters the moon-realm, and then returns, dead.

Updated Dec 17, 2008

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From Tugboats to Polar Bears

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This collection of short films from Peripheral Produce's Matt McCormick features The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal, named as one of the ‘Top 10 Films of 2002’ by The Village Voice and Art Forum magazines. If you're a fan of The Shins like me, the DVD includes the music video McCormick directed for The Past and Pending. And be sure to check out one of my personal favorites, a short called Sincerely, Joe P. Bear - ttownqt and I can't get enough of it!

Updated Nov 20, 2008

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Vito Acconci in Conversation at Acconci Studio

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This DVD documents a 2007-2008 school year conversation between artist Vito Acconci and undergrad student collaborators at the University of Pennsylvania, exploring the themes of idioms, environments, and boundaries and their use in Acconci's art and architecture.

Updated Dec 17, 2008

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Decasia

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Archival film is recorded as it decays running through a projector. Then it is set to music by an orchestra which has been intentionally tuned to sound as though the music is decaying simultaneously.

Updated Nov 12, 2008

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Experimental Films by Maya Deren

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This is a DVD collection of silent experimental shorts from 1943 to 1958 by Maya Deren, widely touted as the mother of underground film culture and one of the most prolific female filmmakers of all time. The collection includes the remarkable "Ritual in Transfigured Time" in which Deren demonstrates the metamorphosis of widow into bride.

Updated Nov 12, 2008

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