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Why Do You Need So Many Cinemas?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged AKJAK, animutation, Billy Joel, Brian Eno, Can Dialectics Break Bricks?, cinema, David Bordwell, David Lynch, détournement, Film Art, Flash animation, Frank Film, Frank Mouris, George Lucas, James Earl Jones, Joseph Cornell, Judson Laipply, Kanye West, Kristin Thompson, Len Lye, Lisa Schwarzbaum, Lumière Brothers, Mike Stoklasa, Neil Cicierega, Onion AV Club, René Viénet, Roger Ebert, scott mccloud, Situationist International, Stan Brakhage, Star Wars, Terry Gilliam, Thomas Edison, Understanding Comics, Vader Sessions, Weezer, YouTube on January 30, 2011 | 9 Comments »

In my last post on this topic, I argued that cinema can be redefined as “the cinematic arts,” which would include not only movies and short films, but also music videos, commercials, TV programs, experimental film and video, installation art, video games, Flash animations, animated gifs, and even “nonelectrical” forms of moving images, such as [...]

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How Many Cinemas Are There?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged AKJAK, animated gifs, animutations, Bill Viola, camera obscuras, cinema, commercials, Cremaster, experimental film, Flash animation, flipbooks, Fred Camper, Guns N' Roses, Gus Van Sant, installation art, Kanye West, Lumière Brothers, magic lanterns, Matthew Barney, Neil Cicierega, Procol Harum, Ridley Scott, Roger Ebert, Stan Brakhage, Taco the Wonder Dog, Thomas Edison, TV, Vader Sessions, video art, Video Games on January 24, 2011 | 6 Comments »

[Update 30 Jan 11: I've since written a follow-up to this post: "Why Do You Need So Many Cinemas?"] “The movies” used to mean one thing—or we acted like they did. “I’m going to the movies.” “I saw a great movie the other night.” “You really ought to watch this movie.” But even though we [...]

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What Is Experimental Art?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alec Empire, Arnold Schönberg, avant-garde, Diego Velázquez, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, experimental art, Frank Kermode, Ghost in the Shell, Harry Potter, Henri de Saint-Simon, Impressionism, innovation, J.K. Rowling, James Peterson, John Cage, La Monte Young, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Matei Călinescu, Minimalism, Olinde Rodrigues, outsider art, Philip Glass, Roman Jakobson, Salon des Refusés, serialist music, Stan Brakhage, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, the dominant, The Matrix, Titian, Wachowski on March 12, 2010 | 10 Comments »

One typically hears unusual art called three different things, often interchangeably: Innovative Avant-Garde Experimental But what do these three words mean? Do they mean the same thing? I don’t think so, and in this post I’ll point out some basic differences between them. I’ll also define what I think experimental art essentially is, and how [...]

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Innovation in Art

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Andrzej Wajda, Austin Powers, B.S. Johnson, Beckett, Brecht, Brian Eno, Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry, convention, Dave Eggers, Don Quixote, Duck Amuck, Flann O'Brien, Frank Kermode, innovation, Irma Vep, J.K. Rowling, James Taylor, John Cage, Kenneth Patchen, Len Lye, metafiction, Miles Davis, Norman Rockwell, Oblique Strategies, One Thousand and One Nights, Stan Brakhage, Steve Katz, Tristram Shandy, Two-Lane Blacktop, William S. Burroughs, Yusef Komunyakaa on February 13, 2010 | 38 Comments »

What is innovation in art? This is something I’ve circled in my other posts, for example: “Notes on Twee, part 2: The Crash Test Dummies”; “Experimental Fiction as Genre and as Principle”‘; “Art’s Morality.” Now I’ll try addressing it a little more head-on. All art contains both innovation (unfamiliarity) and convention (familiarity). Some artworks are [...]

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Notes on Twee, part 2: The Crash Test Dummies (Those Avant-Garde Harbingers of Mainstream Superheroes, School Plays, and the Willful Embrace of Nostalgia)

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Baroque, Beat Happening, Beetlejuice, Belle Epoque, chamber pop, comics, Crash Test Dummies, David Lynch, Death of Superman, Edward Gorey, grunge, High School Musical, Joan Osborne, Nitsuh Abebe, nostalgia, Peter Greenaway, punk, Ranz des Vaches, Romanticism, Smashing Pumpkins, Stan Brakhage, superheroes, Television Personalities, Terry Gilliam, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover, The Elephant Man, The Magnetic Fields, The Softies, The Vaselines, Tim Burton, Twee, Twee as Fuck on February 11, 2010 | 12 Comments »

In my last post in this series, I embedded and linked to every single music video I know that uses the concept of the video as a school musical. (Please let me know if I’ve missed any; I’m sure there are more.) Such videos became especially pronounced in the 2000s, especially between 2005 and 2007. [...]

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Experimental Fiction as Genre and as Principle

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Andy Warhol, Bruce Conner, Bubsy Berkeley, Carolee Schneemann, Christopher Higgs, Edwin S. Porter, Ernie Gehr, experimental fiction, experimental film, Harry Smith, Hollis Frampton, Howard Hawks, Jack Smith, James Sibley Watson, Jonas Mekas, Joseph Cornell, Kenneth Anger, La Gioconda, Lescaux, Lois Weber, Mary Ellen Bute, Maya Deren, Melville Webber, Michael Snow, Nathaniel Dorsky, P. Adams Sitney, Paul Sharits, Robert Flaherty, Roundhay Garden Scene, Shirley Clarke, Stan Brakhage, The Night of the Hunter, The Spectator, Theodor Adorno, Viktor Shklovsky, Yoko Ono on February 3, 2010 | 56 Comments »

Christopher Higgs at HTMLGIANT recently posted this question: “If you were teaching a class on American experimental fiction, what texts would you choose, and why?” He went on to list a set of possible books for an “Introduction to American Experimental Fiction” course: Ishmael Reed – Mumbo Jumbo William S. Burroughs – The Soft Machine [...]

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Brevity, Part 6: Roundhay Garden Scene, ctd.(well, it’s short)

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cecelia Condit, Chinese Series, Chuck Jones, Duck Amuck, Guy Maddin, Heart of the World, Joseph Cornell, Jules Massenet, Laurie Anderson, O Superman, Possibly in Michigan, postmodernism, Powers of Ten, Ray and Charles Eames, Rose Hobart, Roundhay Garden Scene, Salvador Dalí, Stan Brakhage on January 22, 2010 | 4 Comments »

Roundhay Garden Scene is hardly the only short film that transcends its brief running time. Here are seven other shorts whose impacts are much larger, and last much longer, than their respective running times might indicate.

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Posts Tagged ‘Stan Brakhage’

Why Do You Need So Many Cinemas?

How Many Cinemas Are There?

What Is Experimental Art?

Innovation in Art

Notes on Twee, part 2: The Crash Test Dummies (Those Avant-Garde Harbingers of Mainstream Superheroes, School Plays, and the Willful Embrace of Nostalgia)

Experimental Fiction as Genre and as Principle

Brevity, Part 6: Roundhay Garden Scene, ctd.(well, it’s short)

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