avant-garde cinema

Defragmenting Bodies: Yoko Ono’s ‘Fly’ at 50
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Defragmenting Bodies: Yoko Ono’s ‘Fly’ at 50

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 / 22 April 2020

In her 1970 avant-garde short Fly, Yoko Ono works within the same parameters as directors like Alfred Hitchcock or Takashi Miike. Yet, she posits the intermixture of her celluloid images as reconstructive effort, not a destructive one.

How Kenneth Anger Created Camp Cinema with His Short Film, ‘Puce Moment’
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How Kenneth Anger Created Camp Cinema with His Short Film, ‘Puce Moment’

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 / 7 August 2019

With his 1949 avant-garde short film, Puce Moment, Kenneth Anger is vomiting glamour into our face, objectifying objects, sexualizing what cannot, in a vacuum, be sexualized: silk, velvet, cotton, glitter -- and we cannot get enough of it.