Thank you for making me aware of these articles! I'm reading *The Myth of
the Avant-Garde Film *now.



On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 6:55 PM Fred Camper <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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 Avant-Garde Film*, is from 1986, and hence way out of date; in my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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