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

San Francisco Cinematheque

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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