In the 1920s, a new kind of movie started showing in Paris theatres, and the audiences were… confused. These movies were a radical departure from the ones they had known until then. These new films ...

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, ...

He championed works of cinema that were destined never to have a commercial breakthrough — which, to him, was the whole point. By Adam Nossiter P. Adams Sitney, who pioneered the study of avant-garde ...

A summer treat for Francophiles and film aficionados, the 17th annual New Orleans French Film Festival returns to the Prytania Theater this week with an eclectic array of features, from a ...

P. Adams Sitney, emeritus professor of visual arts in the Lewis Center for the Arts and one of the world’s leading experts on avant-garde film, died at home in Matunuck, Rhode Island, on June 8. He ...