Links to Other Resources
Listserves, Distributors, Other Archives, Festivals, Venues and etc.*
Listserves, Announcement & Discussion Lists
This Week in Avant-Garde Cinema - calendar of events
VisualMusicPlus - CVM's discussion list (CVM members only)
Frameworks archive: Experimental Film discussion list. Good for experimental film in general, not particularly for VM.
Distributors of Abstract, Experimental and Avant-Garde Film & Video
Arsenal Experimental, Berlin - films
British Film Institute - DVDs, PAL
Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre - films
Canyon Cinema - films
Center for Visual Music - online store and curated programs
Chicago Filmmakers - films
Electronic Arts Intermix - video, digital
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 film)
National Film Board of Canada
Other Cinema, Australia - dvds
Re:Voir Video, Paris - PAL videotapes, dvds
sixpackfilm, Austria
Video Data Bank, Chicago - video, digital
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
British Artists Film and Video Study Collection, Central St. Martins, London
Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt, Germany - an Oskar Fischinger Collection. A small collection of (German) papers from the 1920s-early 1930s; some animation drawings (from Kreise); some oil paintings, some drawings and the original plexiglass paintings from Motion Painting No. 1. These materials were sold by Elfriede Fischinger to the Filmmuseum in the early 1980s, along with some 16mm film prints. Please note that much larger Fischinger Collections are in California at CVM and The Fischinger Archive.
The Naim June Paik Archive was recently acquired (2009) by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC. Includes research material, documentation, correspondence, sculptural robots, and video and television technology. Description on artdaily.com
Festivals
a selected list of recommended festivals which program visual music, experimental animation, experimental film and related work (list in progress)
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan, US. Held in March. www.aafilmfest.org/
Black Maria Film Festival, New Jersey, US (travels). www.blackmariafilmfestival.org/
European Media Art Festival, Osnabruek, Germany, held in April. www.emaf.de
Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, NM. Held in April. www.basementfilms.org/experiments.html
Fantoche - Internationales Festival für Animationsfilm, Baden, Switzerland. Deadline: May 31. www.fantoche.ch
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands. Held in late Jan/Feb.
London Film Festival, London, UK. Held in Oct/Nov. www.bfi.org.uk/lff
Melbourne International Animation Festival, Australia
Oberhausen/International Short Film Festival, Germany. Held in April/May. www.kurzfilmtage.de/
OHpen Surface: The Art of the Overhead www.overheads.org
Ottawa International Film Festival, Canada. http://ottawa.awn.com
Toronto International Film Festival, Canada - Wavelengths section. Held in September.
25fps Festival, Zagreb, Croatia. Held in September. www.25fps.hr
Videoex Film & Video Festival, Zurich, Switzerland. Held in May www.videoex.ch
--this list is in progress, and is selected from regularly scheduled events, usually annual festivals. We are unable to list 'one time' events here
Venues/Programming in need of updating...
Anthology Film Archives, New York
Cinematheque Ontario, Toronto
Light Industry, Brooklyn, NY
Los Angeles Filmforum
Lux, London
Northwest Film Forum, Seattle
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley CA
Redcat Theatre, Los Angeles
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...)
Audio Documentation, podcasts (under construction)
Documentation of speakers/papers presented at Tate Modern's Expanded Cinema: Activating the Space of Reception symposium, 2009
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
etc. other links of interest
Luminopolis - a platform for everyone working with light: Designers, architects, artists, town planners, media people, the creative industry. Luminapolis reports about light events: good light architecture, festivals,exhibitions, art events in museums and public places. Luminapolis prepares the next Luminale in Frankfurt.
* For Artists links please visit our Artists Pages, and for scholarly resources visit our online Library, which contains many links on a variety of subject areas.
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last updated May 2009