Avant-garde film is almost indefinable. It is in a constant state of change and redefinition. In this book A.L. Rees tracks the movement of the film avant-garde between, on the one hand, the cinema, and, on the other hand, modern art (with its post-modern coda). But he also reconstitutes the film avant-garde as an independent form of art practice with its own internal logic and aesthetic discou…
I remember this story Garin Nugroho told me we were in berlin together in 1997, he recounted how he was trailed by military intelligence shortly after he had made his short fim, water and romi (1991), a searing indictment of indonesia's polluted rivers and the people who live on them. he laughed as he recalled how frightened his wife was. for garin, his path was clear. he is a filmmaker with a …