Making Up For Lost Time: "Stop" and "The Day of Two Noons"
Blair McClendonTwo films from the New York Film Festival’s sidebar Views from the Avant-Garde.
Views from the Avant-Garde
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Images of the Day. Peter Kubelka's Monument Film sculpture
Daniel KasmanImages from an installation constituting Kubelka’s new film, Antiphon, Arnulf Rainer (1960), and the two combined.
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A Land Imagined: A Conversation with Nicolas Rey
Daniel KasmanAbout Rey’s experimental 16mm feature, differently, Molussia, which adapts a book on totalitarianism the filmmaker has never read.
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Love in the Painted Image
Daniel KasmanFrom the New York Film Festival, David Gatten’s first work in digital video is a long form movie capturing painted images and broken texts.
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Flash Dance: 4 or 5 New Movies by Ernie Gehr (some notes)
David PhelpsErnie Gehr: fully developed, partially exposed. Gehr’s digital lacings.
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National Treasure: Ken Jacobs' "Seeking the Monkey King"
David PhelpsJacobs’ masterpiece is re-appearing at a retrospective on the filmmaker in NYC.
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Naked Repose: A Conversation with James Benning about "Twenty Cigarettes"
Darren HughesDiscussing the “real face,” his life and work, and stories about the smokers in his video project.
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Basso Profondo: Nathaniel Dorsky’s "The Return"
Michael SicinskiDorsky’s great new film plays this weekend in the NYFF’s Views from the Avant-Garde.