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Programme at the AGNSW for all fans of experimental cinema
Saturday 16 June 2pm
Saturday 23 June 12noon
Saturday 7 July 12noon
Saturday 21 July 2pm
Domain Theatre, Lower Level 3

This series focuses on the enduring traditions and lasting influence of experimental and avant-garde filmmaking. This is so-called formalist cinema, using film in ways that are comparable to the aims of modern painting and sculpture, foregrounding the medium itself, emphasising the film strip, the frame, montage, projection, and even the chemical and technological processes. The rejection or subversion of Hollywood-type storytelling generates works with a loose or non-linear narrative, making unexpected dislocations of time and space, permitting personal explorations and poetic or ironic juxtaposition. Taken together, these journeys of colour and sound demonstrate the sheer dynamism of experimental cinema over the past 85 years.
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Some information I have discovered while here in Yokohama:

 MIACA - Moving Image Archive of Contemporary Art
http://www.miaca.org/english/news/index.html

Videoart Center, Tokyo
http://www.vctokyo.org/j/about/ 
(Japanese - Google for a web page translation Japanese to English)

Art Autonomy Network
http://www.a-a-n.org/top_e.htm

And for the Expanded Cinema heads, Jun’ichi OKUYAMA.  For example:

Cut-Off movie, 1969 16mm 9min. A film 9 minutes in length was cut in several places beforehand, those severed places covered with tree leaves and condoms and the like. When projected, naturally those places cause an interruption in projection, and the filmmaker himself explains why the accident occurred. This projection/ performance was first shown in 1969.
http://www.geocities.jp/okujun16/page016.html

 Reference for history of Japanese experimental film - 2004 film program at the Pacific Film Archive, LA
http://ieas.berkeley.edu/events/2004.10.19-26.html