I have had three articles related to avant-garde film published online
in the last year. Two are fairly recent, and the third, /The End of
Avant-Garde Film/, is from 1986, and hence way out of date; in my
introduction I explain the ways in which it is not current but perhaps
still of interest. That article caused much controversy at the time,
including many negative replies ("Whose side are you on," one noted
filmmaker, also a friend, asked me). It also helped inspire the 1989
Experimental Film Congress in Toronto, which was offered partly as a
response, and where I was the opening speaker.
Another article, /The Myth of the Avant-Garde Film/, tried to argue for
certain commonalities between some avant-garde films and some of the
great films of classical Hollywood. The third, /Political, Or Not/, is
about Eisenstein, Brakhage, and the problems of "political" filmmaking.
Two of the three were published by a relatively new online arts journal,
/Caesura/, which should be of interest to anyone interested in the arts.
They are all linked to at the top of the page at
https://fredcamper.com/Film/writingF.html , just under "Writing on Film."
Fred Camper
Chicago
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