In 1976, a crudely published fanzine devoted to the experimental film scene made its debut. It was called Idiolects and the first issue offered a definition of its name: “An idiolect is the language of an individual at a particular time.” That definition certainly could be applied to both the filmmakers covered in the zine and to the writers who contributed articles.
Although not an official publication of New York City’s Collective for Living Cinema screening society, Idiolects was closely tied to the organization, offering a “temporary” publication address of 52 White Street, New York, 10013 in the indicia. That was the Collective’s then permanent screening space in 1976 after having bopped around Manhattan for several years prior.
In addition, the Living Cinema was formed in the early 1970s by students who had studied filmmaking at Binghamton University in upstate New York and then moved to New York City. While Idiolects #1 gives no clear main editorial voice,...
Although not an official publication of New York City’s Collective for Living Cinema screening society, Idiolects was closely tied to the organization, offering a “temporary” publication address of 52 White Street, New York, 10013 in the indicia. That was the Collective’s then permanent screening space in 1976 after having bopped around Manhattan for several years prior.
In addition, the Living Cinema was formed in the early 1970s by students who had studied filmmaking at Binghamton University in upstate New York and then moved to New York City. While Idiolects #1 gives no clear main editorial voice,...
- 3/19/2018
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
How would you program this year's newest, most interesting films into double features with movies of the past you saw in 2014?
Looking back over the year at what films moved and impressed us, it is clear that watching old films is a crucial part of making new films meaningful. Thus, the annual tradition of our end of year poll, which calls upon our writers to pick both a new and an old film: they were challenged to choose a new film they saw in 2014—in theatres or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they also saw in 2014 to create a unique double feature.
All the contributors were given the option to write some text explaining their 2014 fantasy double feature. What's more, each writer was given the option to list more pairings, with or without explanation, as further imaginative film programming we'd be lucky to catch...
Looking back over the year at what films moved and impressed us, it is clear that watching old films is a crucial part of making new films meaningful. Thus, the annual tradition of our end of year poll, which calls upon our writers to pick both a new and an old film: they were challenged to choose a new film they saw in 2014—in theatres or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they also saw in 2014 to create a unique double feature.
All the contributors were given the option to write some text explaining their 2014 fantasy double feature. What's more, each writer was given the option to list more pairings, with or without explanation, as further imaginative film programming we'd be lucky to catch...
- 1/5/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
The brilliant and essential Incite! Journal of Experimental Media issue #4 is going into its 2nd printing and can be pre-ordered right now. The 1st printing of this epic tome sold out almost immediately. The 2nd printing will be limited to just 300 copies and it would not be surprising if it sold out just as quickly.
Subtitled “Exhibition Guide,” Incite! #4 is an in-depth and exciting survey of the microcinema movement past and present with many chapters written by those who have been active participants in keeping the world of underground film screenings active. Some of the contributors to the issue include Steve Anker, Jeanne Liotta, Clint Enns, Walter Forsberg, Brian L. Frye, Sarah, Halpern, Ed Halter, Bryan Konefsky, Marcus Rosentrater, Jesse Malmed and Audrey Young. There are also loads of photographs and a fantastic portfolio of flyers for microcinema screenings at the legendary Other Cinema, The Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, Light Industry and more.
Subtitled “Exhibition Guide,” Incite! #4 is an in-depth and exciting survey of the microcinema movement past and present with many chapters written by those who have been active participants in keeping the world of underground film screenings active. Some of the contributors to the issue include Steve Anker, Jeanne Liotta, Clint Enns, Walter Forsberg, Brian L. Frye, Sarah, Halpern, Ed Halter, Bryan Konefsky, Marcus Rosentrater, Jesse Malmed and Audrey Young. There are also loads of photographs and a fantastic portfolio of flyers for microcinema screenings at the legendary Other Cinema, The Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, Light Industry and more.
- 8/8/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Above: Notes of an Early Fall Part 1
The Ann Arbor Film Festival makes for an ideal entry point for festival novices wanting to dive into the cinema referred to as avant-garde, experimental, or simply, artist’s. The Michigan Theater hosts all of the screenings for the fest (minus a straggler here and there), making it easy to catch as many films as your heart desires. After 52 years, the festival has created a community for itself in the city. On one end, you have the pros who’ve been there since the beginning and openly opine for the good old days when the smell of activism filled the theater. On the other, you have “the youth”; the University of Michigan providing an inexhaustible supply of the curious and the studious. And, of course, you have the typical film fans and socializers balancing out the mix. This sense of community is cemented...
The Ann Arbor Film Festival makes for an ideal entry point for festival novices wanting to dive into the cinema referred to as avant-garde, experimental, or simply, artist’s. The Michigan Theater hosts all of the screenings for the fest (minus a straggler here and there), making it easy to catch as many films as your heart desires. After 52 years, the festival has created a community for itself in the city. On one end, you have the pros who’ve been there since the beginning and openly opine for the good old days when the smell of activism filled the theater. On the other, you have “the youth”; the University of Michigan providing an inexhaustible supply of the curious and the studious. And, of course, you have the typical film fans and socializers balancing out the mix. This sense of community is cemented...
- 5/30/2014
- by Alex Hansen
- MUBI
The 52nd annual Ann Arbor Film Festival will be a jam-packed experimental feature and short film screening event running for six days and nights, this time on March 25-30.
Opening Night will feature a reception and an after-party, and stuffed between those will be a block of nine short films, including new ones by Bryan Boyce, Michael Robinson, Jennifer Reeder and Martha Colburn, as well as a never-before-released work by the legendary Bruce Baillie called Little Girl in which Baillie captured scenes of natural beauty.
Special Events scattered throughout the festival include a retrospective of indie filmmaker Penelope Spheeris that will feature her rock ‘n’ roll-based work, including the original The Decline of Western Civilization, plus The Decline of Western Civilization Part III, her influential punk film Suburbia (screening twice) and a collection of short films.
There will also be several films and presentations by filmmaking scholar Thom Andersen, such...
Opening Night will feature a reception and an after-party, and stuffed between those will be a block of nine short films, including new ones by Bryan Boyce, Michael Robinson, Jennifer Reeder and Martha Colburn, as well as a never-before-released work by the legendary Bruce Baillie called Little Girl in which Baillie captured scenes of natural beauty.
Special Events scattered throughout the festival include a retrospective of indie filmmaker Penelope Spheeris that will feature her rock ‘n’ roll-based work, including the original The Decline of Western Civilization, plus The Decline of Western Civilization Part III, her influential punk film Suburbia (screening twice) and a collection of short films.
There will also be several films and presentations by filmmaking scholar Thom Andersen, such...
- 3/18/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Iconic underground filmmaker, and the founder of the underground filmmaking movement in San Francisco in the early 1960s, Bruce Baillie made an appearance at a two-night retrospective of his work at Los Angeles’s Redcat Theater on November 3 & 4. The Underground Film Journal attended the second night of screenings, from which the photograph above and the ones in the gallery below were taken.
The November 3 screening, which the Journal missed, included Baillie’s films Here I Am (1962), Tung (1966), All My Life (1966), Castro Street (1966), Valentin de las Sierras (1968), Little Girl (1966).
The November 4 screening was of Baillie’s feature-length epic, Quick Billy (1970), plus the short film Roslyn Romance (1977) and some unedited 16mm camera rolls taken around the time of the production of Quick Billy.
While Quick Billy is an astounding piece of film art, the real highlight of the Nov. 4 screening was the appearance of Baillie himself, who spoke for what seemed about an hour before the film.
The November 3 screening, which the Journal missed, included Baillie’s films Here I Am (1962), Tung (1966), All My Life (1966), Castro Street (1966), Valentin de las Sierras (1968), Little Girl (1966).
The November 4 screening was of Baillie’s feature-length epic, Quick Billy (1970), plus the short film Roslyn Romance (1977) and some unedited 16mm camera rolls taken around the time of the production of Quick Billy.
While Quick Billy is an astounding piece of film art, the real highlight of the Nov. 4 screening was the appearance of Baillie himself, who spoke for what seemed about an hour before the film.
- 11/5/2013
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Dutch Colonialism and its long-lasting consequences are the topics of the documentary ’Empire’ at the Redcat (photo: ’Empire: The Unintended Consequences of Dutch Colonialism’) Mixing personal narratives, investigative journalism, video art, and split/multiple screens, Eline Jongsma and Kel O’Neill’s transmedia documentary Empire: The Unintended Consequences of Dutch Colonialism — the lengthy title gives you a pretty good idea of what the film is about — will have its West Coast Premiere on Monday, November 11, 2013, at 8:30 p.m. at downtown Los Angeles’ Redcat. Both Eline Jongsma and Kel O’Neill are expected to attend the screening. Previously shown at the 2013 New York Film Festival, Empire: The Unintended Consequences of Dutch Colonialism was filmed in more than half a dozen countries over the course of three years. According to the Redcat press release, the Dutch-American filmmakers (Jongsma is Dutch; O’Neill is American) "traveled 140,000 kilometers through Asia, Africa, Oceania and...
- 10/15/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
This Week’s Absolute Must Read is Clint Enns’ extremely helpful guide for filmmakers submitting to film festivals, including tips on figuring out the essentials to put into your information packet and how to figure out which festivals are good for your film. Clint’s work screens in a ton of festivals, so the man knows what he’s talking about.This Week’s Absolute Must Listen is the Cinemad Podcast #7 in which journalist Mike Plante interviews two very fine fellows: Ed Halter and Thomas Beard of the Brooklyn-based microcinema, Light Industry. All three men discuss their experience curating for festivals and give tips on how to run a successful microcinema or screening series. If knowledge is power, this one is powerful enough to blow your head off.GreenCine Daily interviews Jonas Mekas about his recent film My Mars Bar Movie, which is running at the Anthology this weekend.Congrats...
- 4/15/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
I know that many of you who read GeekTyrant are interested in becoming future filmmakers, which is awesome! It should come as no surprise to you that since I run a movie blog that I too would like to get into the business of making movies.
The Hollywood Reporter has come up with their list of 25 best film schools with basic details for each one. For those of you wanting to study the art of filmmaking, and wondering what the best schools for this are then this list should come in handy. Check out the full list below, and tell us what you think!
1. American Film Institute
Among the most selective film schools in America, AFI's Center for Advanced Film and Television Studies in Los Angeles offers a two-year conservatory program where students specialize in fields including directing, producing and writing, often coming to the institute after working in the...
The Hollywood Reporter has come up with their list of 25 best film schools with basic details for each one. For those of you wanting to study the art of filmmaking, and wondering what the best schools for this are then this list should come in handy. Check out the full list below, and tell us what you think!
1. American Film Institute
Among the most selective film schools in America, AFI's Center for Advanced Film and Television Studies in Los Angeles offers a two-year conservatory program where students specialize in fields including directing, producing and writing, often coming to the institute after working in the...
- 7/27/2011
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Jan. 24
8:30 p.m.
Redcat Theater
631 W. 2nd St.
Los Angeles, CA
Hosted by: Redcat
Barbara Hammer will be in attendance to present two of her recent movies: Generations (2010) and A Horse Is Not a Metaphor (2009). Both films run about a half-hour each.
With a filmmaking career that spans over 40 years, Hammer is a true pioneer of queer cinema and is still going strong making films and recently writing her autobiography Hammer! Making Movies Out of Sex and Life.
As an ovarian cancer survivor — or a cancer “thriver” as she likes to call herself — Hammer made A Horse Is Not a Metaphor about her intense chemotherapy treatments. The film is a return to her experimental filmmaking roots and features bold images of herself aligning with the freedom and power of the animal spirit. Her official website describes the film as such:
‘Survivor’ has never seemed to me to be the...
8:30 p.m.
Redcat Theater
631 W. 2nd St.
Los Angeles, CA
Hosted by: Redcat
Barbara Hammer will be in attendance to present two of her recent movies: Generations (2010) and A Horse Is Not a Metaphor (2009). Both films run about a half-hour each.
With a filmmaking career that spans over 40 years, Hammer is a true pioneer of queer cinema and is still going strong making films and recently writing her autobiography Hammer! Making Movies Out of Sex and Life.
As an ovarian cancer survivor — or a cancer “thriver” as she likes to call herself — Hammer made A Horse Is Not a Metaphor about her intense chemotherapy treatments. The film is a return to her experimental filmmaking roots and features bold images of herself aligning with the freedom and power of the animal spirit. Her official website describes the film as such:
‘Survivor’ has never seemed to me to be the...
- 1/21/2011
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
Jan. 16
7:30 p.m.
Egyptian Theater
6712 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90028
Hosted by: L.A. Filmforum
This is one of several screenings happening around Los Angeles in support of the recently published book Radical Light: Alternative Film And Video In The San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000, edited by Steve Anker, Kathy Geritz and Steve Seid.
This particular event will run about 78 minutes and include nine short films by Bay Area experimental filmmakers such as Greta Snider, Dominic Angerame, Gunvor Nelson, Jay Rosenblatt and more. The full lineup of films is below and all prints are provided by the legendary S.F. distributor Canyon Cinema.
Curators Steve Anker and Kathy Geritz, as well as filmmakers Timoleon Wilkins and Cauleen Smith, who have films in the program, will be in attendance for a post-screening discussion.
For some background on these two particular time periods represented at this screening, here are descriptions from the L.
7:30 p.m.
Egyptian Theater
6712 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90028
Hosted by: L.A. Filmforum
This is one of several screenings happening around Los Angeles in support of the recently published book Radical Light: Alternative Film And Video In The San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000, edited by Steve Anker, Kathy Geritz and Steve Seid.
This particular event will run about 78 minutes and include nine short films by Bay Area experimental filmmakers such as Greta Snider, Dominic Angerame, Gunvor Nelson, Jay Rosenblatt and more. The full lineup of films is below and all prints are provided by the legendary S.F. distributor Canyon Cinema.
Curators Steve Anker and Kathy Geritz, as well as filmmakers Timoleon Wilkins and Cauleen Smith, who have films in the program, will be in attendance for a post-screening discussion.
For some background on these two particular time periods represented at this screening, here are descriptions from the L.
- 1/14/2011
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
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