Esssays "published on the occasion of the touring film retrospective, Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1893-1941, June 2001-December 2005."--t.p. verso.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since the creation of the camera and the dawn of cinema, film has been one long experiment. Experimental film has often been ...

He championed works of cinema that were destined never to have a commercial breakthrough — which, to him, was the whole point. By Adam Nossiter P. Adams Sitney, who pioneered the study of avant-garde ...

His son, Sebastian, confirmed the death. It is rare to have consensus on the pre-eminence of any person in the arts. But few would argue that Mekas, who was often called the godfather or the guru of ...

The Czech film avant-garde. A unique artistic direction of the 1920s and 1930s with great persons of Czech culture like Vítězslav Nezval, Jaroslav Seifert, Alexander Hackenschmied, Jan Kučera and many ...

P. Adams Sitney, emeritus professor of visual arts in the Lewis Center for the Arts and one of the world’s leading experts on avant-garde film, died at home in Matunuck, Rhode Island, on June 8. He ...