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James Stanley Brakhage (/ ˈ b r æ k ɪ dʒ / BRAK-ij; [2] January 14, 1933 – March 9, 2003) was an American experimental filmmaker.He is considered to be one of the most important figures in 20th-century experimental film.
Kenneth Anger (born Kenneth Wilbur Anglemyer, February 3, 1927 – May 11, 2023) was an American underground experimental filmmaker, actor, and writer.Working exclusively in short films, he produced almost 40 works beginning in 1937, nine of which have been grouped together as the "Magick Lantern Cycle". [1]
Part of the American Film Institute's 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes is a list of the top 100 quotations in American cinema. [1] The American Film Institute revealed the list on June 21, 2005, in a three-hour television program on CBS .
Maya Deren (/ ˈ d ɛr ən /; born Eleonora Derenkovskaya; Ukrainian: Елеоно́ра Деренко́вська; May 12 [O.S. April 29] 1917 [1] – October 13, 1961) was a Ukrainian-born American experimental filmmaker and important part of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s.
Though experimental film is known to a relatively small number of practitioners, academics and connoisseurs, it has influenced and continues to influence cinematography, visual effects and editing. [26] Experimental film reached mainstream audiences at world exhibitions, especially those in Montreal, Expo 67, [27] and Osaka, Expo 70. [28]
The film, which is part of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival's U.S. documentary competition, offers a glimpse into the history of the Meatpacking District primarily through archival footage and ...
Critical reception for the film has been mostly positive and Allmovie users rated the film 3 out of 5 stars. [3] The New York Times commented that the film was "a first — the home movie as epic" and stated that "Mr. Mekas provides more of an immersion into his personal life than he has allowed anyone to view before in the welter of films he has built up over his career."
Born in 1926, Breer began his artistic career as a painter after studying at Stanford University and Paris. [2] " A founding member of the American avant-garde," [3] Breer was best known for his films, which combine abstract and representational painting, hand-drawn rotoscoping, original 16mm and 8mm film footage, photographs, and other materials.