Critical Writing Index

Art in Cinema: Traditions in the Avant-Garde Film

Film and Video Umbrella, 1987

Exhibition programme based on the Art in Cinema season at the NFT 1986-7, programmed by A.L. Rees and David Curtis. Descriptions of all films in the programme, including the following themes: cubist cinema; the cine clubs of the 1920s and 1930s; Maya Deren; experimental animation; surrealism and film; sexuality reclaimed; artists' films of the 50s and 60s; beat cinema and new york dada; the international co-operative movement.