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7 Essential Avant-Garde Films

April 17, 2026 by admin

How to Be Cultured Menu Film The origins of avant-garde cinema date to the silent era, when artists in the 1920s like Man Ray, Fernand Léger, Marcel Duchamp and Salvador Dalí began to explore film as a kind of abstract form. In the 1930s and ’40s in America, Harry Smith, Mary Ellen Bute and Maya … Read more

Jonas Mekas, Master of Avant-Garde Film, Shows His Tender Side

March 7, 2025 by admin

One bit of footage shows issues of Film Culture magazine, which Mekas started in 1954 with his brother Adolfas, rolling from a printing press. Several of Mekas’s segments show the buzz of activity at the Film-Makers’ Cooperative, which he co-founded in 1961 to distribute little-known movies. Mekas was also the first full-time film critic for … Read more