Nicole Brenez : Avant Garde

Nicole Brenez in 2007 wrote a little booklet for Les Petits Cahiers. At the end is a chronological viewing list of what she considers to be significant avant garde works. Its heavily Francophone biased, but so much more international than most such lists.

If you can’t find it on MUBI (listed below) I have tried to provide links for the video on the web

Here is the list:

L’Homme-Mouche, Georges Méliès, Fr, 1902, 3’ (The Human Fly) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT_P1xJp2kY)

Série 1 (vols d’insectes), Lucien Bull, Fr, 1904, 4’ (Series 1: Flight of Insects) (Can find...