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 ...

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, ...

Excinema Short films in this avant-garde omnibus come from locals including Adam Sekuler, Eric Ostrowski, and Reed O’Beirne. (NR) Grand Illusion, 1403 N.E. 50th St., 523-3935, grandillusioncinema.org.

It will come as a surprise to many film aficionados that the filmmakers included in “Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film, 1893-1941” include Frank Capra, Busby Berkeley, D.W. Griffith, ...

In 1928, directors Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, and Grigori Alexandrov began a collective statement with a declaration: “Our cherished dreams of a sound cinema are being realized.” It was a ...

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 ...

For all the impact that DVDs have had on expanding viewers' knowledge of films and filmmaking, few discs have had the potential to alter cinema history. This is what makes 19-hour homevid release of ...

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