Pioneers of the Avant Garde
January 24, 2013
Grand Illusion CinemaSeattle, WA
Rare 16mm prints of 10 remarkable short experimental films made between 1921 and 1964.
The program included works by Shirley Clarke, Stan VanDerBeek, Maya Deren, Charles Sheeler & Paul Strand, Man Ray, Robert Florey & Slavko Vorkapic, James Sibley Watson & Melville Webber, and others.
Presented as a sort of “unauthorized appendix” to the excellent documentary Free Radicals – A History of Experimental Film during its run at the Grand Illusion.