UC Berkeley's History of Avant Garde Film
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A course taught at Berkeley in the fall of 2012 by Professor Jeffrey Skoller.
“Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all!” -- Andre Breton
Avant-garde film is a cinema of subversion, of sensual perversion, filled with constantly challenging, unruly images and ideas that are often messy, sublime and like life, complicated! Avant-Garde Film is also a cinema of counter-culture whose filmmakers are challenging the edges of aesthetic, social, intellectual and sexual, acceptability. Not bound by the bottom line of corporate checkbooks and middle-brow gentility, avant-garde cinema challenges us to see, think and feel differently. Each film is a pipe cleaner for the mind clearing out sludge from years of watching the mind numbing conventions of shopping mall cinema and infantilizing info-tainment TV. We explore the rich and varied history of films made by fine artists who are experimenting with the formal, perceptual and narrative elements of film as well as looking at the poetic traditions of the first person cinema. Through weekly screenings, the reading of word texts, talking to visiting artists, discussing and writing about the films as well as making short filmic artworks, we move back and forth between historical and contemporary practices sampling from the garden of underground, personal, poetic, queer, surrealist cinemas, feminist, structural-materialist, punk, found films, love films and smash-the-state films!
The Dante Quartet by Brakhage is listed twice.
Pushcarts of Eternity by Ken Jacobs (2006, 10 minutes) is listed but I can only find The Pushcarts leave Eternity Street (2011, 13 min) which doesn't seem the same so I did not add it.
(Posthumous) by Ghassan Salhab (2007, 28 minutes) does not seem to be on IMDb.
Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs by Walid Raad (2001, 18minutes) does not seem to be on IMDb.
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Passage à l'acte
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To Kill a Mockingbird
1962, in 18 top lists Check -
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Le sang d'un poète
1932 — a.k.a. The Blood of a Poet, in 9 top lists Check -
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Arnulf Rainer
1960, in 4 top lists Check -
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Swinging the Lambeth Walk
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Free Radicals
1958, in 7 top lists Check -
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Mothlight
1963, in 6 top lists Check -
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Ballet mécanique
1924, in 7 top lists Check -
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Rhythmus 21
1923, in 3 top lists Check -
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Symphonie diagonale
1924 — a.k.a. Symphonie diaganale, in 3 top lists Check -
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Le retour à la raison
1923 — a.k.a. Return to Reason, in 1 top list Check -
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Emak-Bakia
1927, in 2 top lists Check -
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Allegretto
1936, in 0 top lists Check -
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Radio Dynamics
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A Man and His Dog Out for Air
1960, in 1 top list Check -
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Fuji
1974, in 2 top lists Check -
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Breath Death
1964, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Dante Quartet
1987, in 1 top list Check -
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Street of Crocodiles
1986, in 6 top lists Check -
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The Bats
1999, in 0 top lists Check -
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Robots of Brixton
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Meshes of the Afternoon
1943, in 10 top lists Check -
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At Land
1944, in 6 top lists Check -
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A Study in Choreography for Camera
1946, in 1 top list Check -
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Ritual in Transfigured Time
1946, in 3 top lists Check -
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The Very Eye of Night
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Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
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Hold Me While I'm Naked
1966, in 2 top lists Check -
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Chumlum
1964, in 1 top list Check -
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Desistfilm
1954, in 2 top lists Check -
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Wedlock House: An Intercourse
1959, in 1 top list Check -
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Window Water Baby Moving
1959, in 7 top lists Check -
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Thigh Line Lyre Triangular
1961, in 1 top list Check -
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Prelude: Dog Star Man
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Dog Star Man: Part I
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Fireworks
1947, in 5 top lists Check -
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Puce Moment
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Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome
1954, in 4 top lists Check -
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Kustom Kar Kommandos
1965, in 1 top list Check -
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Scorpio Rising
1963, in 9 top lists Check -
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Invocation of My Demon Brother
1969, in 3 top lists Check -
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Lucifer Rising
1972, in 3 top lists Check -
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A Movie
1958, in 5 top lists Check -
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Report
1967, in 4 top lists Check -
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Perfect Film
1986, in 0 top lists Check -
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Decodings
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Home Stories
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One Way to Find Out
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Removed
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Castro Street
1966, in 3 top lists Check
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