“Fly In A Bottle”, a documentary about the avant-garde jazz trio Medeski Martin and Wood directed ... the entire box set, Billy Martin directed the first feature film in Medeski Martin & Wood’s history entitled ... Bottle. Tirelessly working through footage of MMW in the studio and on the road, the film provides an extremely intimate portrait of the band. It highlights the trio’ ...

... Visionaries might serve as an introduction to the film that has been labeled underground, avant-garde, and briefly, New American Cinema. ... Afternoon. Michael Snow's Wavelength, a film consisting of a forty-five minute zoom shot, ... slack here. But Visionaries is worth watching not only for its lessons in film history but as an introduction for some to some films that help redefine what it means ...

... me a NYFF fan for life.  And yet, this year gave me Everyone Else, a film that’s on my shortlist for Best of the Decade and one that I find truly ... should make special mention in the YES category there should be one film from the Avant Garde program, Harun Farocki’s ... (Raya Martin) - A quietly moving and inspiring film, one whose sense of timelessness within history you can get lost in. ...

... for a second year of experimentation, fledgling film festival Diversions promises an avant garde feast for the senses. Organised by Edinburgh University’s Film Studies department and the Filmhouse cinema, the festival, which is ... first of its kind in the capital, offers a medley of experimental film and video, talks and live performances, enough to provide a cinematic foothold ...

... to self-reflection, gender identification and "otherness." All this, through the best new performance video and short film work by established filmmakers, avant-garde performers, iconic chanteuses, Gen Y viral ... on a panel moderated by Jackie Beat. You can purchase tickets here. Prior to the film festival, Fade-Dra and Squeaky Blonde will teach a Monday night ...

... Courant's "Cinematon." I'm not usually one for the avant-garde, but even I'm a little bit staggered by the scale of this thing. The movie(?) actually a massive anthology of short films, all of them ... shoot 100 "short portraits," the Telegraph UK (via /Film) reports, but he decided to keep it going when the idea turned out to be popular. You can check ...