Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects

Japan's establishment as an economic superpower led to a Golden Age of Japanese architecture. Six innovators stand out particularly, fusing Japanese traditions with modern materials and technology.

Nam June Paik: The Good Conscience of the Avant Garde

The film about Nam June Paik, the pioneer of video art, provides insight into his multifaceted artistic work and at the same time paints a biographical portrait of the Korean artist.

Avant-Garde: Experimental cinema of the 1920s and ’30s

In the latter half of the 20th Century, Raymond Rohauer was one of the nation's foremost proponents of experimental cinema. Programming diverse films at the Coronet Theatre in Los Angeles, and making the films in his per

Peggy und die anderen oder Wer trägt die Avantgarde?

VERWEGEN. MUTIG. RADIKAL. Künstlerinnen der Feministischen Avantgarde

Films by Stan Brakhage: An Avant-Garde Home Movie

"I had a camera with which I could make multiple superimpositions spontaneously. It had been lent to me for a week. I was also given a couple of rolls of color film which had been through an intensive fire. The chance th

Charlotte Moorman's Avant-Garde Festival #9

"Cine-Sonnet. The film-maker's impressions of Charlotte Moorman's 9th Avant-Garde Festival of the Arts aboard the old steamboat, 'Alexander Hamilton,' docked at the South Street Seaport

Deine Lakaien & Die Neue Philharmonie Frankfurt - 20 Years Of Electronic Avantgarde

Recorded live at the König Pilsner Arena Oberhausen, 2007

EXPO '70 Avant-Garde Memories - Searching for Ako

A documentary made in collaboration with students at Konan University, retracing the history of EXPO '70 and attempting to track down the actress who performed in Toshio Matsumoto's installation in the Textiles Pavilion,

New Music: Sounds and Voices from the Avant-Garde New York 1971

With participation of John Cage, Earle Brown, David Tudor, Gordon Mumma, David Behrman, Max Neuhaus, Morton Subotnik, Phil Corner, Joe Jones, Alvin Lucier, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Ben Patterson, Wolf Rosenberg In 197

Avant-Garde 3: Experimental cinema 1922-1954

From the little theaters of the 1920s to the ad hoc film societies of the 50s, avant-garde cinema knew no established form and held no predictable position. The boundaries of its history are still hotly debated, but its

Mewism Dispute between Mr. Postmodern and Miss Avant-Garde

Walking through a dark cave. I met a man. He handed me a gun and said, "You can have this. You can shoot me and run away, but if you really want to escape you have to shoot yourself."

Avant-Garde 2: Experimental cinema 1928-1954

In the latter half of the 20th Century, Raymond Rohauer was one of the nation's foremost proponents of experimental cinema. This collection continues Kino's tribute to the Rohauer Collection, including the early works of

Ever the Avant-Garde of the Avant-Garde till Heaven and After

This film is a supertemporal oeuvre. The support of the audience's participations is constitued by an image, which has varied several times during the course of many a projection. A projection by Maurice Lemaître, himsel

Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film 1920-1970

Commencing in 1920 with Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand's creative collaboration on Manhatta, successive generations of experimental filmmakers and artists have worked in collaboration or alone to create a cinema capable

Seven Sins: 7 Performances during 1989 China Avant-Garde Art Exhibition

In 1989, a group of avant-garde artists who had collaborated in private for years received permission to organize their own exhibition at the National Art Museum of China. However, one of the terms was to exclude perform

Avant-Garde 1927-1937 SURREALISM AND EXPERIMENT IN BELGIAN CINEMA

At the end of the nineteen twenties, two future film-makers discover their medium. Charles Dekeukeleire and Henri Storck will become famous documentary film-makers, but their debuts consist of experiments and the search

The Armed Eye – VALIE EXPORT in a Dialogue with the Film Avant-Garde

In her three-part series VALIE EXPORT takes a look at the themes of "staged space - staged time", "real movement - movable reality", and "structural film", a genre which no longer exists on public-service television. Usi

The Making of an Avant-Garde: The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies 1967-1984

The Making of an Avant-Garde presents the creation and existence of the IAUS in the architectural, cultural, and political climate of the time, from the anti-War riots, the Women's Movement to the Paris May '68 revolutio

Metamedia: A Film Journal of Intermedia and the Avant-Garde 1966-1970

Timothy Leary at the Village Theatre, Kusama at the Cooper Square Playhouse, Hermann Nitsch “Orgy-Mystery” at the Filmmakers’ Cinematheque; Living Theatre’s “Paradise Now” at BAM; 7th Annual New York Avant Garde Festival