In December, UnionDocs hosted Peter Hutton, one of the avant-garde’s most accomplished filmmakers, for an evening of four films: three old pieces, and footage from a work-in-progress. Since the late 1970s with the first New York Portrait (1978-79), most of Hutton’s films have been short...
Posts tagged “avant-garde”
Wonder and Despair
“Restrained” is probably not the best word to describe Star Spangled to Death — Ken Jacobs’ forty-plus-years-in-the-making, 6 hour and 45 minute screed about the failures and hypocrisies of American government– but it is more apt than you might imagine. Jacobs is not one to hold...
Primary Sources: An Interview with Scott MacDonald
Last December, Scott MacDonald, one of the country’s foremost film scholars, visited UnionDocs for two evenings to explore the intertwined histories of documentary and avant-garde film. In his varied programs and during the sometimes contentious discussions that followed, MacDonald...
Four Minor Films
There is no one younger than 50 who has done more to preserve the legacy of cinema’s mid-century avant-garde than Pip Chodorov. His Re:voir video company distributes VHS and DVD copies of classic experimental films by Stan Brakhage, Jonas Mekas, Ken Jacobs, and many others, for home and...
