1963 was a pivotal year in the history of avant-garde film in the United States. In Visionary Film, P. Adams Sitney calls it “the high point of the mythopoeic development within the American avant-garde.” He explains:
[Stan] Brakhage had finished and was exhibiting the first two sections of Dog Star Man by then; Jack Smith was still exhibiting the year-old Flaming Creatures; [Kenneth Anger‘s] Scorpio Rising appeared almost simultaneously with [Gregory Markopoulos‘s] Twice a Man. The shift from an interest in dreams and the erotic quest for the self to mythopoeia, and a wider interest in the collective unconscious occurred in the films of a number of major and independent artists.
(An inclusive list of American avant-garde films made/released in 1963 can be found here.)
On Christmas Day of 1963 began the weeklong third edition of Exprmntl, a competition of worldwide avant-garde films held in Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium. The two previous Exprmntl competitions took place in 1949 and 1958. Exprmntl...
[Stan] Brakhage had finished and was exhibiting the first two sections of Dog Star Man by then; Jack Smith was still exhibiting the year-old Flaming Creatures; [Kenneth Anger‘s] Scorpio Rising appeared almost simultaneously with [Gregory Markopoulos‘s] Twice a Man. The shift from an interest in dreams and the erotic quest for the self to mythopoeia, and a wider interest in the collective unconscious occurred in the films of a number of major and independent artists.
(An inclusive list of American avant-garde films made/released in 1963 can be found here.)
On Christmas Day of 1963 began the weeklong third edition of Exprmntl, a competition of worldwide avant-garde films held in Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium. The two previous Exprmntl competitions took place in 1949 and 1958. Exprmntl...
- 10/1/2017
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Ah, the carefree days of 1950s America. Suburban families had the white picket fence in the yard, the 2.3 kids in the living room, and the persistent anxiety of dying in a blast of radioactive flame. The Cold War had eyes tilted skyward in anticipation of the day the Kremlin decided to drop the big one on the Us. And while there were “plans” in place (duck and cover, kids!) most people knew that there really wasn’t a whole lot they could do if a fifty-megaton warhead came to town.
As is often the case, the horror genre reflected this anxiety through the metaphor of scientists who, instead of creating giant weapons, created giant creatures. We had enormous lizards, gargantuan spiders, and even humongous blobs of unidentified slime. By 1959, if there was something that could have been made huge, it had likely been made huge. Enter Ray Kellogg, a former...
As is often the case, the horror genre reflected this anxiety through the metaphor of scientists who, instead of creating giant weapons, created giant creatures. We had enormous lizards, gargantuan spiders, and even humongous blobs of unidentified slime. By 1959, if there was something that could have been made huge, it had likely been made huge. Enter Ray Kellogg, a former...
- 12/21/2016
- by Bryan Christopher
- DailyDead
Producer Paul Adams and Emerging Artists Theatre present second developmental workshop of the new musical, True Love. The musical, formerly called Mean The Musical, received its first workshop in May as part of Emerging Artists' 'New Work Series.' Singer-Songwriter Alecia Beth Moore Pnk is currently not involved directly with the musical's development, but is aware of the project.The second one-day only staged reading will take place today, October 10th at 200 Pm at Tada Theater, 15 West 28th Street in NYC.
- 10/10/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Producer Paul Adams and Emerging Artists Theatre will present a second developmental workshop of the new musical, True Love. The musical, formerly called Mean The Musical, received its first workshop in May as part of Emerging Artists' 'New Work Series.'Singer-Songwriter Alecia Beth Moore Pnk is currently not involved directly with the musical's development, but is aware of the project.
- 9/27/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Producer Paul Adams and Emerging Artists Theatre will present a developmental workshop of the new musical Mean. The musical, with book by Kerri Kochanski 1,001 People That Suck, The Food Monologues, features music and lyrics by Grammy Award winning pop icon Alecia Moore aka Pnk. The workshop features direction by Jonathan Warman Now the Cats with Jewelled Claws at Lamama, choreography by Liz Piccoli Spandex, the Musical, and musical direction by Luke Williams.
- 5/30/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Producer Paul Adams and Emerging Artists Theatre will present a developmental workshop of the new musical Mean. The musical, with book by Kerri Kochanski 1,001 People That Suck, The Food Monologues, features music and lyrics by Grammy Award winning pop icon Alecia Moore aka Pnk. The workshop features direction by Jonathan Warman Now the Cats with Jewelled Claws at Lamama, choreography by Liz Piccoli Spandex, the Musical, and musical direction by Luke Williams.
- 5/18/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
It's rare that we ever cover "real life" news stories here on Dread Central, but the tale of the Miami Zombie is just too scary and insane to ignore. Read on for the unbelievable latest on this horrific event.
CNN recently caught up with Larry Vega, witness to the attack on Miami's MacArthur Causeway, and the full details he gave them are sure to send a chill down your spine.
"The guy was like tearing him to pieces with his mouth, so I told him, 'Get off!'" Vega told CNN affiliate Wsvn. "You know, it's like the guy just kept eating the other guy away, like ripping his skin. It was just a blob of blood. You couldn't really see; it was just blood all over the place."
"When the officer approached him, told him to stop, pointed a gun at him, he turned around and growled like a...
CNN recently caught up with Larry Vega, witness to the attack on Miami's MacArthur Causeway, and the full details he gave them are sure to send a chill down your spine.
"The guy was like tearing him to pieces with his mouth, so I told him, 'Get off!'" Vega told CNN affiliate Wsvn. "You know, it's like the guy just kept eating the other guy away, like ripping his skin. It was just a blob of blood. You couldn't really see; it was just blood all over the place."
"When the officer approached him, told him to stop, pointed a gun at him, he turned around and growled like a...
- 5/29/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
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