http://www.hi-beam.net/fw/index.html
― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Sunday, 29 February 2004 17:35 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0410/carr.php
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 22:49 (twenty years ago) link
a mess indeed, and an important lesson for any artist.
― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 14:11 (twenty years ago) link
Oh, and among other things, caught Stan van der Beek's wonderful short Science Friction. Very obviously one of the biggest influences on Terry Gilliam's Monty Python animation.
― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, 25 March 2004 08:57 (twenty years ago) link
― ryan (ryan), Monday, 10 January 2005 03:28 (nineteen years ago) link
"Decasia" was just released on DVD this year, and an art museum in San Francisco released several of Bruce Conner's films on DVD (including the wonderful "Looking For Mushrooms").
For newer experimental work, try www.peripheralproduce.com and www.microcinema.com. Experimental filmmakers (and former professor of your's truly) sells his works on DVD, including his recent feature length experimental work "Rubicon", on his website--www.berserker-rage.com. Caveh Zahedi (if you consider him "experimental", which I do) also sells his films on DVD & VHS at www.cavehzahedi.com.
Outside of that, you can get many great works by experimental directors like Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage, Len Lye, etc. for www.facets.org. www.re-voir.com is a fantastic site for buying experimental VHS. Although their PAL collection is much larger, you can still buy films by Jonas Mekas, Stan Vanderbeek, Brakhage, Michael Sno, Paul Sharits, Len Lye, Ken Jacobs, etc. in NTSC format. One of my favorites is www.vdb.org, the Video Data Bank. They are the exclusive sellers of the early works of Jem Cohen, one of my favorite filmmakers. Don't be daunted by the high "rental" prices--they are for institutions and public screenings. While it is still pricey, VDB will sell almost any of their titles for $30 on VHS for home personal use (to keep, not a rental).
Hope this helps. If anyone knows of any other places I haven't mentioned, I would love to know about them. It's a shame that experimental/avant-garde cinema is so difficult to come by, especially for those of use who don't live in a big city.
― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Monday, 10 January 2005 03:48 (nineteen years ago) link
There is a film that attempted this, but I can't remember the name. They have it at my local video store, so I'll find out the next time I'm there.
― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Monday, 10 January 2005 04:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― ryan (ryan), Monday, 10 January 2005 04:13 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.mysticfire.com/index.html?cart=110533036712182185
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 10 January 2005 04:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― joseph (joseph), Monday, 10 January 2005 06:16 (nineteen years ago) link
(as an aside, EVERYONE should see the grandmother. NOW.)
― joseph (joseph), Monday, 10 January 2005 06:17 (nineteen years ago) link
and i heard un chien andalou and l'age d'or finally got the dvd treatment recently and if that's true (not o
― joseph (joseph), Monday, 10 January 2005 06:19 (nineteen years ago) link
if that's true (not bothering to check), i'd imagine kino's responsible for that, too.
― joseph (joseph), Monday, 10 January 2005 06:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― joseph (joseph), Monday, 10 January 2005 06:21 (nineteen years ago) link
Sup3r H@ppy Fun has the Lynch shorts (and Eraserhead) available for ~1/4 of the Lynch.com price if you don't mind DVD-R.
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 10 January 2005 06:33 (nineteen years ago) link
so who's seen VENOM AND ETERNITY?
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2015#showing-44511
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 17:33 (eight years ago) link