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239 relations: A Movie, A. L. Rees, Abel Gance, Abstract art, Alberto Cavalcanti, Alexander Dovzhenko, Alexandr Hackenschmied, Andy Warhol, Anemic Cinema, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, Anton Giulio Bragaglia, Art film, Art gallery, Art in America, Arthur Penn, Avant-garde, Ballet Mécanique, Barbara Hammer, Bard College, Belgium, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California, Berlin, Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis, Black Mountain College, British Film Institute, Bruce Conner, California Institute of the Arts, Cambridge University Press, Camp (style), Cannes Film Festival, Canyon Cinema, Cecelia Condit, Centre Pompidou, Chantal Akerman, Charles Sheeler, Charlie Chaplin, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chris Marker, Cinema 16, Cinematography, City symphony, Classical Hollywood cinema, Collage film, Collective for Living Cinema, Conceptual art, Cosmic Ray (film), Craig Baldwin, Cubism, ... Expand index (189 more) »
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A Movie
A Movie (styled as A MOVIE) is a 1958 experimental collage film by American artist Bruce Conner.
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A. L. Rees
Alan Leonard Rees (18 May 1949 – 28 November 2014) was a British writer and teacher on film who celebrated and promoted experimental filmmaking.
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Abel Gance
Abel Gance (born Abel Eugène Alexandre Péréthon; 25 October 188910 November 1981) was a French film director, producer, writer and actor.
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Abstract art
Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.
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Alberto Cavalcanti
Alberto de Almeida Cavalcanti (February 6, 1897 – August 23, 1982) was a Brazilian-born film director and producer.
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Alexander Dovzhenko
Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko, also Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko (Александр Петрович Довженко, Олександр Петрович Довженко; November 25, 1956), was a Ukrainian Soviet director, film producer and screenwriter.
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Alexandr Hackenschmied
Alexandr Hackenschmied, born Alexander Siegfried George Hackenschmied, known later as Alexander Hammid (17 December 1907, Linz – 26 July 2004, New York City) was a Czech-American photographer, film director, cinematographer and film editor.
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Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol (born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director and producer.
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Anemic Cinema
Anemic Cinema or Anémic Cinéma is a 1926 Dada/surrealist French experimental film by Marcel Duchamp (credited to his alter ego, Rrose Sélavy), made in collaboration with Man Ray and Marc Allégret.
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Ann Arbor Film Festival
The Ann Arbor Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Anthology Film Archives
Anthology Film Archives is an international center for the preservation, study, and exhibition of film and video, with a particular focus on independent, experimental, and avant-garde cinema.
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Anton Giulio Bragaglia
Anton Giulio Bragaglia (11 February 1890 – 15 July 1960) was a pioneer in Italian Futurist photography and Futurist cinema.
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Art film
An art film, art cinema, or arthouse film is typically an independent film, aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience. Experimental film and art film are avant-garde art, film genres and film styles.
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Art gallery
An art gallery is a room or a building in which visual art is displayed.
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Art in America
Art in America is an illustrated quarterly, international magazine concentrating on the contemporary art world in the United States, including profiles of artists and genres, updates about art movements, show reviews and event schedules.
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Arthur Penn
Arthur Hiller Penn (September 27, 1922 – September 28, 2010) was an American filmmaker, theatre director, and producer.
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Avant-garde
In the arts and in literature, the term avant-garde (from French meaning advance guard and vanguard) identifies an experimental genre, or work of art, and the artist who created it; which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable to the artistic establishment of the time. Experimental film and avant-garde are avant-garde art.
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Ballet Mécanique
Ballet Mécanique (1923–24) is a Dadaist, post-Cubist art film conceived, written, and co-directed by the artist Fernand Léger and the filmmaker Dudley Murphy (with cinematographic input from Man Ray).
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Barbara Hammer
Barbara Jean Hammer (May 15, 1939 – March 16, 2019) was an American feminist film director, producer, writer, and cinematographer.
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Bard College
Bard College is a private liberal arts college in the hamlet of Annandale-on-Hudson, in the town of Red Hook, in New York State.
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Belgium
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.
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Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA, formerly abbreviated as BAM/PFA) are a combined art museum, repertory movie theater, and archive associated with the University of California, Berkeley.
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Berkeley, California
Berkeley is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States.
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Berlin
Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.
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Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis
Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis or Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt) is a 1927 German silent film directed by Walter Ruttmann, co-written by Carl Mayer and Karl Freund.
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Black Mountain College
Black Mountain College was a private liberal arts college in Black Mountain, North Carolina.
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British Film Institute
The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom.
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Bruce Conner
Bruce Conner (November 18, 1933 – July 7, 2008) was an American artist who worked with assemblage, film, drawing, sculpture, painting, collage, and photography.
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California Institute of the Arts
The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is a private art university in Santa Clarita, California.
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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.
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Camp (style)
Camp is an aesthetic style and sensibility that regards something as appealing because of perceived bad taste and ironic value.
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Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Film Festival (Festival de Cannes), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (Festival international du film), is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from all around the world.
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Canyon Cinema
Canyon Cinema is an American nonprofit organization for distributing independent, avant-garde, and artist-made films.
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Cecelia Condit
Cecelia Ann Condit (born 15 December 1947) is an American video artist.
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Centre Pompidou
The Centre Pompidou, more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil, and the Marais.
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Chantal Akerman
Chantal Anne Akerman (6 June 19505 October 2015) was a Belgian film director, screenwriter, artist, and film professor at the City College of New York.
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Charles Sheeler
Charles Sheeler (July 16, 1883 – May 7, 1965) was an American artist known for his Precisionist paintings, commercial photography, and the 1921 avant-garde film, Manhatta, which he made in collaboration with Paul Strand.
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Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (16 April 188925 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film.
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Chicago Underground Film Festival
The Chicago Underground Film Festival (CUFF) is an annual nonprofit international festival dedicated to the exhibition of underground and avant-garde cinema, video, and performance.
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Chris Marker
Chris Marker (29 July 1921 – 29 July 2012) was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist.
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Cinema 16
Cinema 16 was a New York City–based film society founded by Amos Vogel.
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Cinematography
Cinematography is the art of motion picture (and more recently, electronic video camera) photography.
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City symphony
City symphonies emerged in the 1920s, a unique genre of film emerged encompassing documentary, experimental, and the avant-garde. Coming to prominence alongside modernist art movements such as futurism, constructivism, and radicalism, city symphonies reflect the historical development of city centers and technological hubs of advancement.
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Classical Hollywood cinema
Classical Hollywood cinema is a term used in film criticism to describe both a narrative and visual style of filmmaking that first developed in the 1910s to 1920s during the later years of the silent film era. Experimental film and Classical Hollywood cinema are film styles.
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Collage film
Collage film is a style of film created by juxtaposing found footage from disparate sources (archival footage, excerpts from other films, newsreels, home movies, etc.). The term has also been applied to the physical collaging of materials onto film stock. Experimental film and collage film are film styles.
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Collective for Living Cinema
The Collective for Living Cinema was an outpost of avant-garde cinema located on White Street in Lower Manhattan in the United States.
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Conceptual art
Conceptual art, also referred to as conceptualism, is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work are prioritized equally to or more than traditional aesthetic, technical, and material concerns.
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Cosmic Ray (film)
Cosmic Ray is a 1962 American experimental short film directed by Bruce Conner.
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Craig Baldwin
Craig Baldwin (born 1952) is an American experimental filmmaker.
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Cubism
Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement begun in Paris that revolutionized painting and the visual arts, and influenced artistic innovations in music, ballet, literature, and architecture.
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Curtis Harrington
Gene Curtis Harrington (September 17, 1926 – May 6, 2007) was an American film and television director whose work included experimental films and horror films.
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Dada
Dada or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centres in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire (in 1916), founded by Hugo Ball with his companion Emmy Hennings, and in Berlin in 1917. Experimental film and Dada are avant-garde art.
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Dance film
A dance film (also known as screen dance) is a film in which dance is used to reveal the central themes of the film, whether these themes be connected to narrative or story, states of being, or more experimental and formal concerns. Experimental film and dance film are film genres.
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David Bordwell
David Jay Bordwell (July 23, 1947 – February 29, 2024) was an American film theorist and film historian.
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David Lynch
David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, visual artist, and musician.
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David Lynch filmography
'''David Keith Lynch''' (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, painter, television director, visual artist, musician, and occasional actor.
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David Shepard (film preservationist)
David Haspel Shepard (October 22, 1940 – January 31, 2017)Grimes, William (February 5, 2017).
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Diegesis
Diegesis is a style of fiction storytelling in which a participating narrator offers an on-site, often interior, view of the scene to the reader, viewer, or listener by subjectively describing the actions and, in some cases, thoughts, of one or more characters.
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Dimitri Kirsanoff
Dimitri Kirsanoff (Димитрий Кирсанов, né Markus David Sussmanovitch Kaplan, Маркус Давид Зусманович Каплан; 6 March 1899 – 11 February 1957) was a Russian-French early film-maker working in France, sometimes considered part of the French Impressionist movement in film.
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Documentary film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Experimental film and documentary film are film genres.
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Dog Star Man
Dog Star Man is a series of short experimental films, all directed by Stan Brakhage, featuring Jane Wodening.
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Dogville
Dogville is a 2003 arthouse experimental avant-garde film written and directed by Lars von Trier, and starring an ensemble cast led by Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Paul Bettany, Chloë Sevigny, Stellan Skarsgård, Udo Kier, Ben Gazzara, Patricia Clarkson, Harriet Andersson, and James Caan with John Hurt narrating.
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Dominique Noguez
Dominique Noguez, (12 September 1942 – 15 March 2019) was a French writer.
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Douglass Crockwell
Spencer Douglass Crockwell (April 29, 1904, Columbus, Ohio – November 30, 1968, Glens Falls, New York) was an American commercial artist and experimental filmmaker.
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Dudley Murphy
Dudley Bowles Murphy (July 10, 1897 – February 22, 1968) was an American film director.
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Dziga Vertov
Dziga Vertov (Дзига Вертов, born David Abelevich Kaufman, Дави́д А́белевич Ка́уфман., and also known as Denis Kaufman; – 12 February 1954) was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director, as well as a cinema theorist.
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Earle M. Pilgrim
Earle Montrose Pilgrim (March 14, 1923–1976) was an American artist whose work is within the stylistic milieu of Abstract Expressionism and Figurative Expressionism.
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Editing
Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, or cinematic material used by a person or an entity to convey a message or information.
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Edward Weston
Edward Henry Weston (March 24, 1886 – January 1, 1958) was an American photographer.
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Emlen Etting
Emlen Pope Etting Jr. (August 24, 1905 – July 20, 1993) was an American painter, sculptor, filmmaker, and member of Philadelphia's elite Main Line Society.
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Entr'acte (film)
Entr'acte is a silent French Dada short film directed by René Clair.
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Erik Satie
Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (17 May 18661 July 1925), who signed his name Erik Satie after 1884, was a French composer and pianist.
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Ernie Gehr
Ernie Gehr (born 1941)Manohla Dargis,, The New York Times, November 11, 2011.
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Experimental film in the Netherlands
Experimental filmmakers ask whether things could not be done differently.
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Expo '70
The or Expo 70 was a world's fair held in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, Japan between March 15 and September 13, 1970.
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Expo 67
The 1967 International and Universal Exposition, commonly known as Expo 67, was a general exhibition from April 28 to October 29, 1967.
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Extreme cinema
Extreme cinema is a subgenre used for films distinguished by its use of excessive sex and violence, and depiction of extreme acts such as mutilation and torture. Experimental film and extreme cinema are film and video terminology.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period.
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Feminism
Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes.
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Fernand Léger
Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker.
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Film Culture
Film Culture was an American film magazine started by Adolfas Mekas and his brother Jonas Mekas in 1954.
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Film festival
A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region.
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Film genre
A film genre is a stylistic or thematic category for motion pictures based on similarities either in the narrative elements, aesthetic approach, or the emotional response to the film. Experimental film and film genre are film genres.
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Film society
A film society is a membership-based club where people can watch screenings of films which would otherwise not be shown in mainstream cinemas.
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Film title design
Film title design is a term describing the craft and design of motion picture title sequences. Experimental film and Film title design are film and video terminology.
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Filmmaking
Filmmaking or film production is the process by which a motion picture is produced.
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Fingal's Cave
Fingal's Cave is a sea cave on the uninhabited island of Staffa, in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, known for its natural acoustics.
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Formalist film theory
Formalist film theory is an approach to film theory that is focused on the formal or technical elements of a film: i.e., the lighting, scoring, sound and set design, use of color, shot composition, and editing.
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Francis Picabia
Francis Picabia (born Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia; 22January 1879 – 30November 1953) was a French avant-garde painter, writer, filmmaker, magazine publisher, poet, and typographist closely associated with Dada.
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Frank Stauffacher
Frank Stauffacher (1917 – 24 July 1955) was an American experimental filmmaker, best known for directing the cinema series "Art in Cinema" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from 1946 to 1954.
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French impressionist cinema
French impressionist cinema (first avant-garde or narrative avant-garde) refers to a group of French films and filmmakers of the 1920s.
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Futurism
Futurism (Futurismo) was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy, and to a lesser extent in other countries, in the early 20th century. Experimental film and Futurism are avant-garde art.
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G. B. Jones
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Gene Youngblood
Gene Youngblood (May 30, 1942 – April 6, 2021) was an American theorist of media arts and politics, and a respected scholar in the history and theory of alternative cinemas.
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General Post Office
The General Post Office (GPO) was the state postal system and telecommunications carrier of the United Kingdom until 1969.
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Germaine Dulac
Germaine Dulac (born Charlotte Elisabeth Germaine Saisset-Schneider; 17 November 1882 – 20 July 1942)Flitterman-Lewis 1996 was a French filmmaker, film theorist, journalist and critic.
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Glens Falls, New York
Glens Falls is a city in Warren County, New York, United States and is the central city of the Glens Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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Greenwood Publishing Group
Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-Clio.
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Gregory Markopoulos
Gregory J. Markopoulos (March 12, 1928 – November 12, 1992) was a Greek-American experimental filmmaker.
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Grove Press
Grove Press is an American publishing imprint that was founded in 1947.
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Guy Debord
Guy-Ernest Debord (28 December 1931 – 30 November 1994) was a French Marxist theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, critic of work, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationist International.
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Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
Gwendolyn Audrey Foster is an experimental filmmaker, artist and author.
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Hans Richter (artist)
Hans (Johannes Siegfried) Richter (6 April 1888 – 1 February 1976) was a German Dada painter, graphic artist, avant-garde film producer, and art historian.
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Harry Everett Smith
Harry Everett Smith (May 29, 1923 – November 27, 1991) was an American polymath, who was credited variously as an artist, experimental filmmaker, bohemian, mystic, record collector, hoarder, student of anthropology and a Neo-Gnostic bishop.
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Hollis Frampton
Hollis William Frampton, Jr. (March 11, 1936 – March 30, 1984) was an American avant-garde filmmaker, photographer, writer, theoretician, and pioneer of digital art.
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Hurlements en faveur de Sade
Hurlements en faveur de Sade (English: Howlings for Sade) is a 1952 French avant-garde film directed by Guy Debord.
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Hyperfutura
Hyperfutura is a 2012 science fiction film from American filmmaker James O'Brien, starring Eric Kopatz, Karen Corona, Gregory Kiem, Scott Donovan, Celine Brigitte, Alysse Cobb, Lionel Heredia, Gary Kohn, Edward Romero and William Moore.
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Hypergraphy
Hypergraphy, also called hypergraphics or metagraphics, is an experimental form of visual communication developed by the Lettrist movement.
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Impressionism
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience.
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Indiana University Press
Indiana University Press, also known as IU Press, is an academic publisher founded in 1950 at Indiana University that specializes in the humanities and social sciences.
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International Film Festival Rotterdam
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) is an annual film festival held at the end of January in various locations in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, focused on independent and experimental films.
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Isaac Julien
Sir Isaac Julien (born 21 February 1960Annette Kuhn,, BFI Screen Online.) is a British installation artist, filmmaker, and Distinguished Professor of the Arts at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Isidore Isou
Isidore Isou (29 January 1925 – 28 July 2007), born Isidor Goldstein, was a Romanian-born French poet, dramaturge, novelist, film director, economist, and visual artist.
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Jack Sargeant (writer)
Jack Sargeant (born 1968) is a British writer specialising in cult film, underground film, and independent film, as well as subcultures, true crime, and other aspects of the unusual.
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Jack Smith (film director)
Jack Smith (November 14, 1932 – September 18, 1989) was an American filmmaker, actor, and pioneer of underground cinema.
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Jackie Hatfield
Jackie Hatfield (5 July 1962 – 2 November 2007) was an artist, writer, and academic.
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James O'Brien (filmmaker)
James O'Brien is an American independent film director, screenwriter and producer.
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James Sibley Watson
James Sibley Watson Jr. (August 10, 1894 – March 31, 1982) was an American medical doctor, philanthropist, publisher, editor, photographer, and early experimenter in motion pictures.
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Jean Cocteau
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic.
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Jean Epstein
Jean Epstein (25 March 1897 – 2 April 1953) was a French filmmaker, film theorist, literary critic, and novelist.
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John Hoffman (filmmaker)
John Hoffman (29 August 1904, in Hungary – 6 January 1980, in Altadena, California), was an American editor of montage sequences for several Hollywood studio features.
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Jonas Mekas
Jonas Mekas (December 24, 1922 – January 23, 2019) was a Lithuanian-American filmmaker, poet, and artist who has been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema".
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Jonás Cuarón
Jonás Cuarón Elizondo (born 1981) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter, producer, editor and cinematographer.
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Joseph Cornell
Joseph Cornell (December 24, 1903 – December 29, 1972) was an American visual artist and filmmaker, one of the pioneers and most celebrated exponents of assemblage.
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Ken Jacobs
Ken Jacobs (born May 25, 1933 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American experimental filmmaker.
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Kenneth Anger
Kenneth Anger (born Kenneth Wilbur Anglemyer, February 3, 1927 – May 11, 2023) was an American underground experimental filmmaker, actor, and writer.
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King Vidor
King Wallis Vidor (February 8, 1894 – November 1, 1982) was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter whose 67-year film-making career successfully spanned the silent and sound eras.
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Knokke-Heist
Knokke-Heist (Knocke-Heist) is a municipality in the Belgian province of West Flanders.
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Kyiv
Kyiv (also Kiev) is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine.
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LA Freewaves
LA Freewaves, also known as Freewaves, is a Los Angeles–based nonprofit organization that exhibits new, uncensored, independent media, and produces free public art projects to engage artists and audiences on current social issues.
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La Jetée
La Jetée is a 1962 French science fiction featurette directed by Chris Marker and associated with the Left Bank artistic movement.
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Land art
Land art, variously known as Earth art, environmental art, and Earthworks, is an art movement that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, largely associated with Great Britain and the United StatesArt in the modern era: A guide to styles, schools, & movements.
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Lars von Trier
Lars von Trier (né Trier; born 1956) is a Danish film director and screenwriter.
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Laura Mulvey
Laura Mulvey (born 15 August 1941) is a British feminist film theorist and filmmaker.
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Len Lye
Leonard Charles Huia Lye (5 July 1901 – 15 May 1980) was a New Zealand artist known primarily for his experimental films and kinetic sculpture.
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Leslie Thornton (filmmaker)
Leslie Thornton (born 1951) is an American avant-garde filmmaker and artist.
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Lettrism
Lettrism is a French avant-garde movement, established in Paris in the mid-1940s by Romanian immigrant Isidore Isou.
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Lev Kuleshov
Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov (Лев Владимирович Кулешов; – 29 March 1970) was a Russian and Soviet filmmaker and film theorist, one of the founders of the world's first film school, the Moscow Film School.
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Lewis Jacobs
Lewis Jacobs (1904 – February 11, 1997) was an American screenwriter, film director and critic.
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Limelight (1952 film)
Limelight is a 1952 American comedy-drama film written, produced, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin, based on a novella by Chaplin titled Footlights.
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Lionel Rogosin
Lionel Rogosin (January 22, 1924, New York City, New York – December 8, 2000, Los Angeles, California) was an independent American filmmaker.
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List of motion picture film formats
This list of motion picture film formats catalogues formats developed for shooting or viewing motion pictures, ranging from the Chronophotographe format from 1888, to mid-20th century formats such as the 1953 CinemaScope format, to more recent formats such as the 1992 IMAX HD format.
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Lists of avant-garde films
This is chronological list of avant-garde and experimental films split by decade.
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London Film-Makers' Co-op
The London Film-makers' Co-operative, or LFMC, was a British film-making workshop founded in 1966.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.
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Lot in Sodom
Lot in Sodom is a 1933 short, silent and experimental film directed by James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber.
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Luis Buñuel
Luis Buñuel Portolés (22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico, and Spain.
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Malcolm Le Grice
Malcolm Le Grice (born May 1940, in Plymouth, United Kingdom) is a British artist known for his avant-garde film work.
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Man Ray
Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky; August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) was an American visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris.
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Man with a Movie Camera
Man with a Movie Camera (translit) is an experimental 1929 Soviet silent documentary film, directed by Dziga Vertov, filmed by his brother Mikhail Kaufman, and edited by Vertov's wife Yelizaveta Svilova.
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Manhatta
Manhatta (1921) is a short documentary film directed by painter Charles Sheeler and photographer Paul Strand.
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Marcel Duchamp
Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art.
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Marcel L'Herbier
Marcel L'Herbier (23 April 1888 – 26 November 1979) was a French filmmaker who achieved prominence as an avant-garde theorist and imaginative practitioner with a series of silent films in the 1920s.
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Marie Menken
Marie Menken (born Marie Menkevicius; May 25, 1909 – December 29, 1970) was an American experimental filmmaker, painter, and socialite.
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Martha Rosler
Martha Rosler (born 1943) is an American artist.
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Mary Ellen Bute
Mary Ellen Bute (November 21, 1906 – October 17, 1983) was a pioneer American film animator, producer, and director.
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Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, branded as MassArt, is a public college of visual and applied art in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Maya Deren
Maya Deren (born Eleonora Derenkovskaya, Елеоно́ра Деренко́вська; // ЦГИАК Украины. Ф. 1164. Оп. 1. Д. 161 (517 — по старой нумерации). Л. 73об–74. (russian) – October 13, 1961) was a Ukrainian-born (then part of the Russian Empire, now independent Ukraine) American experimental filmmaker and important part of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s.
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Meshes of the Afternoon
Meshes of the Afternoon is a 1943 American experimental silent short film directed by and starring wife-and-husband team, Maya Deren and Alexandr Hackenschmied.
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Michael Snow
Michael James Aleck Snow (December 10, 1928 – January 5, 2023) was a Canadian artist who worked in a range of media including film, installation, sculpture, photography, and music.
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Mini theater
A, mini cineplex (মিনি সিনেপ্লেক্স), or microcinema is a type of independent movie theater that is not under the direct influence of any major film companies.
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MIT Press
The MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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MIX NYC
MIX NYC is a not-for-profit organization based in New York City dedicated to queer experimental film.
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Modernist film
Modernist film is related to the art and philosophy of modernism. Experimental film and modernist film are film genres.
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Moods of the Sea
Moods of the Sea (1941) is a non-narrative experimental film by Slavko Vorkapich and John Hoffman, set to the music of Felix Mendelssohn known as the Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) Overture.
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Museum
A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying and/or preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects.
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Music video
A music video is a video that integrates a song or an album with imagery that is produced for promotional or musical artistic purposes. Experimental film and music video are film genres.
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Mythopoeic thought
Mythopoeic thought is a hypothetical stage of human thought preceding modern thought, proposed by Henri Frankfort and his wife Henriette Antonia Frankfort in the 1940s, based on their interpretation of evidence from archaeology and cultural anthropology.
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National Film Board of Canada
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB; Office national du film du Canada (ONF)) is Canada's public film and digital media producer and distributor.
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New media art
New media art includes artworks designed and produced by means of electronic media technologies.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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New York Film Festival
The New York Film Festival (NYFF) is a film festival held every fall in New York City, presented by Film at Lincoln Center.
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New York Underground Film Festival
The New York Underground Film Festival was an annual event that occurred each March at Anthology Film Archives in New York City from 1994 through 2008.
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Nicholas Ray
Nicholas Ray (born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle Jr., August 7, 1911 – June 16, 1979) was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor.
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Non-narrative film
Non-narrative film is an aesthetic of cinematic film that does not narrate, or relate "an event, whether real or imaginary". Experimental film and non-narrative film are film and video terminology and film genres.
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Oskar Fischinger
Oskar Wilhelm Fischinger (June 22, 1900 – January 31, 1967) was a German-American abstract animator, filmmaker, and painter, notable for creating abstract musical animation many decades before the appearance of computer graphics and music videos.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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P. Adams Sitney
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Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France.
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Parker Tyler
Harrison Parker Tyler (March 6, 1904 – July 24, 1974), was an American author, poet, and film critic.
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Paul Sharits
Paul Jeffrey Sharits (February 7, 1943, Denver, Colorado—July 8, 1993, Buffalo, New York) was a visual artist, best known for his work in experimental, or avant-garde filmmaking, particularly what became known as the structural film movement, along with other artists such as Tony Conrad, Hollis Frampton, and Michael Snow.
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Paul Strand
Paul Strand (October 16, 1890 – March 31, 1976) was an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century.
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Peggy Ahwesh
Peggy Ahwesh (born 1954 in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania) is an American experimental filmmaker and video artist.
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Performance art
Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants.
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Pop art
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the United Kingdom and the United States during the mid- to late-1950s. Experimental film and Pop art are avant-garde art.
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Postmodernist film
Postmodernist film is a classification for works that articulate the themes and ideas of postmodernism through the medium of cinema. Experimental film and postmodernist film are film genres.
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Queercore
Queercore (or homocore) is a cultural/social movement that began in the mid-1980s as an offshoot of the punk subculture and a music genre that comes from punk rock.
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Remodernist film
Remodernist film developed in the United States and the United Kingdom in the early 21st century with ideas related to those of the international art movement Stuckism and its manifesto, Remodernism. Experimental film and Remodernist film are film genres.
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René Clair
René Clair (11 November 1898 – 15 March 1981), born René-Lucien Chomette, was a French filmmaker and writer.
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Rien que les heures
Rien que les heures (English: Nothing But Time or Nothing But the Hours) is a 1926 experimental silent film by Brazilian director Alberto Cavalcanti showing the life of Paris through one day in 45 minutes.
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Robert Florey
Robert Florey (14 September 1900 – 16 May 1979) was a French-American director, screenwriter, film journalist and actor.
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Robert Smithson
Robert Smithson (January 2, 1938 – July 20, 1973) was an American artist known for sculpture and land art who often used drawing and photography in relation to the spatial arts.
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Rochester, New York
Rochester is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the county seat of Monroe County.
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Sadie Benning
Sadie T. Benning (born April 11, 1973) is an American artist, who has worked primarily in video, painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and sound.
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Sally Potter
Charlotte Sally Potter (born 19 September 1949) is an English film director and screenwriter.
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Salvador Dalí
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol (11 May 190423 January 1989), known as Salvador Dalí, was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in his work.
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San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) was a private college of contemporary art in San Francisco, California.
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San Francisco Cinematheque
San Francisco Cinematheque is a San Francisco-based film society for artist-made cinema.
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum and nonprofit organization located in San Francisco, California.
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Scorpio Rising (film)
Scorpio Rising is a 1963 American experimental short film shot, edited, co-written and directed by Kenneth Anger, and starring Bruce Byron as Scorpio.
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Scott Treleaven
Scott Treleaven is a Canadian artist whose work employs a variety of media including painting, collage, film, video, drawing, photography and installation.
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Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (11 February 1948) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, film editor and film theorist.
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Shirley Clarke
Shirley Clarke (née Brimberg; October 2, 1919 – September 23, 1997) was an American filmmaker.
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Sidney Peterson
Sidney Peterson (November 15, 1905 – April 24, 2000), was an American writer, artist, avant-garde filmmaker, and educator.
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Slavko Vorkapich
Slavoljub "Slavko" Vorkapić (Славољуб "Славко" Воркапић; March 17, 1894 – October 20, 1976), known in English as Slavko Vorkapich, was a Serbian-born Hollywood montagist, an independent cinematic artist, chair of USC School of Cinematic Arts, chair of the Belgrade Film and Theatre Academy, painter, and illustrator.
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Slow cinema
Slow cinema is a genre of art cinema characterised by a style that is minimalist, observational, and with little or no narrative, and which typically emphasizes long takes. Experimental film and Slow cinema are film and video terminology and film genres.
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Soviet montage theory
Soviet montage theory is an approach to understanding and creating cinema that relies heavily upon editing (montage is French for 'assembly' or 'editing').
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Stan Brakhage
James Stanley Brakhage (January 14, 1933 – March 9, 2003) was an American filmmaker.
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State University of New York
The State University of New York (SUNY) is a system of public colleges and universities in the State of New York.
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Still image film
A still image film, also called a picture movie, is a film that consists primarily or entirely of still images rather than consecutive still images in succession, forgoing the illusion of motion either for aesthetic or practical reasons.
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Structural film
Structural film was an avant-garde experimental film movement prominent in the United States in the 1960s. Experimental film and Structural film are film and video terminology and film styles.
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Su Friedrich
Su Friedrich (born December 12, 1954) is an American avant-garde film director, producer, writer, and cinematographer.
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Surrealism
Surrealism is an art and cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depiction of illogical or dreamlike scenes and ideas.
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Television advertisement
A television advertisement (also called a commercial, spot, break, advert, or ad) is a span of television programming produced and paid for by an organization.
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The Fall of the House of Usher (1928 American film)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) is a short silent horror film adaptation of the 1839 short story "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe.
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The Film-Makers' Cooperative
The Film-Makers' Cooperative (a.k.a. The New American Cinema Group, Inc.) is an artist-run, non-profit organization founded in 1961 in New York City by Jonas Mekas, Andy Warhol, Shirley Clarke, Stan Brakhage, Jack Smith, Lionel Rogosin, Gregory Markopoulos, Lloyd Michael Williams, and other filmmakers, for the distribution, education, and exhibition of avant-garde films and alternative media.
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The Hebrides (overture)
The Hebrides (Die Hebriden) is a concert overture that was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1830, revised in 1832, and published the next year as Mendelssohn's Op. 26.
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The Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra
The Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra is a 1928 American silent experimental short film co-written and co-directed by Robert Florey and Slavko Vorkapić.
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The Saturday Evening Post
The Saturday Evening Post is an American magazine, currently published six times a year.
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Tony Conrad
Anthony Schmalz Conrad (March 7, 1940 – April 9, 2016) was an American video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician, composer, sound artist, teacher, and writer.
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Tracey Moffatt
Tracey Moffatt (born 12 November 1960) is an Indigenous Australian artist who primarily uses photography and video.
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Two Concert Études (Liszt)
Two Concert Études (Zwei Konzertetüden), S.145, is a set of two piano works composed in Rome around 1862/63 by Franz Liszt and dedicated to Dionys Pruckner, but intended for Sigmund Lebert and Ludwig Stark’s Klavierschule.Lebert's notoriety is mainly due to his piano method Grosse theoretisch-praktische Klavierschule, that he published in collaboration with Ludwig Stark in 1858.
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Ultra-Lettrist
The Ultra-Lettrist art movement was developed by Jean-Louis Brau, Gil J. Wolman, and François Dufrêne in the 1950s when they split from Isidore Isou's Lettrism movement.
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Underground film
An underground film is a film that is out of the mainstream either in its style, genre or financing. Experimental film and underground film are avant-garde art and film genres.
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University of California Press
The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.
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University of Colorado Boulder
The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder, CU, or Colorado) is a public research university in Boulder, Colorado, United States.
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Venom and Eternity
Venom and Eternity (lit) is a 1951 French avant-garde film by Isidore Isou that grew out of the Lettrist movement in Paris.
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Video art
Video art is an art form which relies on using video technology as a visual and audio medium.
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Viking Eggeling
Viking Eggeling (21 October 1880 – 19 May 1925) was a Swedish avant-garde artist and filmmaker connected to dadaism, Constructivism, and abstract art and was one of the pioneers in absolute film and visual music.
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Visual effects
Visual effects (sometimes abbreviated VFX) is the process by which imagery is created or manipulated outside the context of a live-action shot in filmmaking and video production.
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Vsevolod Pudovkin
Vsevolod Illarionovich Pudovkin (p; 28 February 1893 – 30 June 1953) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor who developed influential theories of montage.
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Walter Ruttmann
Walter Ruttmann (28 December 1887 – 15 July 1941) was a German cinematographer and film director, an important German abstract experimental film maker, along with Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling and Oskar Fischinger.
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Wayne State University Press
Wayne State University Press (or WSU Press) is a university press that is part of Wayne State University.
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Wheeler Winston Dixon
Wheeler Winston Dixon (born March 12, 1950) is an American filmmaker and scholar.
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Willard Maas
Willard Maas (June 24, 1906 – January 2, 1971) was an American experimental filmmaker and poet.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Year of the Nail
Year of the Nail (Año uña) is a 2007 Mexican film written and directed by Jonás Cuarón.
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Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono (Ono Yōko, usually spelled in katakana オノ・ヨーコ; born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist.
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16 mm film
16 mm film is a historically popular and economical gauge of film.
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See also
Film styles
- Anthology film
- Art film
- Art horror
- Arthouse science fiction film
- Classical Hollywood cinema
- Collage film
- Composite film
- Database cinema
- European art cinema
- Experimental film
- Film noir
- Film styles
- Film-poem
- Hyperlink cinema
- Machinima
- Neo-Baroque film
- Oneiric (film theory)
- Silent film
- Social realism
- Socialist realism
- Structural film
- Trick films
- Video film era
- Woman's film
References
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