The National Film Preservation Foundation and The Film Foundation have awarded their annual Avant-Garde Masters Grants for 2012. The overall grant award, which equals $50,000, will help restore and preserve an impressive selection of classic experimental and avant-garde films from the 1950s and ’60s by five legendary underground filmmakers: Mike Kuchar, Gregory Markopoulos, Ian Hugo, Aldo Tambellini and Jud Yalkut.
This year’s grant award will be split among five different archivist organizations, each one working on a different filmmaker’s work.
Three filmmakers will have one film each preserved: The Temenos will be preserving Cycle VII of Gregory J. Markopoulos’ epic 22-cycle film Eniaios; Anthology Film Archives will be preserving one of Mike Kuchar‘s more obscure works, Green Desire (1965); and the Trisha Brown Dance Company will be preserving Jud Yalkut’s Planes (1968), which features choreography by Trisha Brown.
Meanwhile, the Library of Congress has been awarded the opportunity to preserve...
This year’s grant award will be split among five different archivist organizations, each one working on a different filmmaker’s work.
Three filmmakers will have one film each preserved: The Temenos will be preserving Cycle VII of Gregory J. Markopoulos’ epic 22-cycle film Eniaios; Anthology Film Archives will be preserving one of Mike Kuchar‘s more obscure works, Green Desire (1965); and the Trisha Brown Dance Company will be preserving Jud Yalkut’s Planes (1968), which features choreography by Trisha Brown.
Meanwhile, the Library of Congress has been awarded the opportunity to preserve...
- 4/18/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Jan. 29
3:00 p.m.
Museum of the Moving Image
35 Avenue at 37 Street
Astoria, NY 11106
Hosted by: Museum of the Moving Image
Meditative contemplation gives way to barbaric chaos in this selection of classic avant-garde and experimental films from 1947 to 1976. Several of the makers and one of the stars of these short movies will be in attendance at the screening. They are: Millicent Brower, Larry Gottheim, and Carolee Schneemann.
What’s also interesting about this particular lineup is that not only do the films go from meditation to chaos, but their order is close to being neatly chronological. The most meditative film, Untitled by Norman Mailer, is from 1947 while the most chaotic, Jerry’s by Tom Palazzolo, is from 1976. Is that an unconscious statement about the historical progression of avant-garde film?
The screening will also repeat on Jan. 30 at 5:30 p.m. The full lineup is below:
Untitled, dir. Norman Mailer,...
3:00 p.m.
Museum of the Moving Image
35 Avenue at 37 Street
Astoria, NY 11106
Hosted by: Museum of the Moving Image
Meditative contemplation gives way to barbaric chaos in this selection of classic avant-garde and experimental films from 1947 to 1976. Several of the makers and one of the stars of these short movies will be in attendance at the screening. They are: Millicent Brower, Larry Gottheim, and Carolee Schneemann.
What’s also interesting about this particular lineup is that not only do the films go from meditation to chaos, but their order is close to being neatly chronological. The most meditative film, Untitled by Norman Mailer, is from 1947 while the most chaotic, Jerry’s by Tom Palazzolo, is from 1976. Is that an unconscious statement about the historical progression of avant-garde film?
The screening will also repeat on Jan. 30 at 5:30 p.m. The full lineup is below:
Untitled, dir. Norman Mailer,...
- 1/27/2011
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
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