Links to Other Resources
Listserves, Distributors, other Archives, Venues
Listserves, Announcement & Discussion Lists
VisualMusicPlus - CVM's discussion list (CVM members only)
Frameworks archive: Experimental Film discussion list
This Week in Avant-Garde Cinema - calendar of events
Distributors of Abstract, Experimental and Avant-Garde Film/Video/Digital Work
This is a mixed list. Some companies carry dvds for purchase, others offer film and video for rental, a few offer both
British Film Institute - PAL DVDs
Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre - films
Canyon Cinema - films
Center for Visual Music - online store and curated programs
Chicago Filmmakers - films
Cinedoc
Electronic Arts Intermix - video
Filmbank
Film-Makers Cooperative, New York - films
Light Cone, Paris - films
Lux Cinema, London - films, dvds
MoMA Circulating Film and Video Library, New York - films
Milestone Films - dvds (only a few are experimental)
National Film Board of Canada
Other Cinema - dvds
Re:Voir Video, Paris - PAL videotapes, dvds
sixpackfilm, Austria - films, dvds
Video Data Bank, Chicago - video
Other Archives with Visual Music-Related Materials
Thomas Wilfred Collection - Yale University (US). Manuscripts, papers.
Finding Aid to a collection of Mary Ellen Bute and Ted Nemeth papers at Yale University
Finding Aid to Mary Hallock Greenewalt materials at Historical Society of Pennsylvania (pdf)
Len Lye Foundation (archives and studio collection), New Zealand
Archives of
American Art (Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC):
--LA
Independent Film Oasis collection (papers)
--A Collection of
Hans
Richter papers (on microfilm)
--The archives also
contain oral histories with Bruce Conner, Larry Jordan and other filmmakers
Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley, CA) - Library and Film Study Center
Museum of Modern Art (New York) - Film Study Center
Hans Richter Archive in the MOMA, New York Archives - Finding Aid
Online Clips Legal sources only (under construction)
Stan VanDerBeek: A La Mode, Science Friction, Breath Death, Poemfield # 2 (1959 - 1966) on Tate's Intermedia Art
Light Cone, Paris (distributors) have digitized some of the films in their collection for online previews. We especially like:
Thierry Vincen's Giraglia (1968) - dig this Pierre Henry score!
Emmanuel Lefrant's films
Venues/Programming in need of updating...
Anthology Film Archives, New York
Cinematheque Ontario, Toronto
Filmforum Los Angeles
Lux, London
Northwest Film Forum, Seattle
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley CA
Scratch Projections, Paris
Tate Modern, London
UCLA Film and Television Archive
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
(this is only a brief summary of what would be a very extensive list...)
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