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 Avant-Garde Film*, is from 1986, and hence way out of date; in my 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 > > -- > Frameworks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org >
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