Distributing the Avant-Garde:
The Creative Film Society Collection
Sunday October 30, 2011, 7:30 pm
Los Angeles Filmforum presents
Distributing the Avant-Garde: The Creative Film Society Collection
At the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood
Los Angeles Filmforum presents the fifth in our film screening series Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980 on October 30rd with Distributing the Avant-Garde: The Creative Film Society Collection. The series will feature over 24 shows between now and May 2012.
Alternative Projections is Filmforum’s exploration of the community of filmmakers, artists, curators and programmers who contributed to the creation and presentation of experimental film and video in Southern California in the postwar era. Film series curated by Adam Hyman and Mark Toscano, with additional contributions by David James, Christine Panushka, Terry Cannon, Ben Caldwell, Stephanie Sapienza, and more.
Alternative Projections is part of Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA 1945 – 1980, an unprecedented collaboration of more than sixty cultural institutions across Southern California, coming together to tell the story of the birth of the L.A. art scene.
This screening series is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission; the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles; and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Special support provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Additional support generously provided by American Cinematheque.
Distributing the Avant-Garde: The CFS Collection
10/30/11
“Any student researching the rise of the independent and experimental American film in the 1960s and 1970s would find this [CFS] collection invaluable, and it is unlikely that a collection of this scope exists elsewhere. It is in many ways a tribute to a filmmaking experience that has disappeared.”
