Tim Cawkwell's Cinema
Guy Sherwin's 'Light Cycles' (pdf, 5 pages)
Guy Sherwin's Optical Heaven (pdf, 6 pp)
Guy Sherwin's Short Film Series
Leviathan: an appreciation (pdf, 5 pages)
Robert Beavers at Aurora (pdf, 5 pp)
Robert Breer at Aurora (pdf, 6 pp)
Into Great Silence (pdf, 6 pp)
Avant Garde
JANUARY 2017: review of SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT : the first decade of the London Film-Makers' Co-operative 1966-76
JUNE 2016: Malcolm Legrice's Little Dog for Roger
APRIL 2016: Peter Gidal Flare Out Aesthetics 1966-2016
MARCH 2016: Guy Sherwin's 'Light Cycles'
MARCH 2015: I have assembled my Brakhage pages in one place.
I first saw so-called American Underground films in Oxford in May 1968, when I was twenty. This was courtesy of the package of films with which P. Adams Sitney toured Europe. They made an indelible impression, fostering a desire to make films myself and influencing how I did so, and stimulating forty years of thinking.
I have opted for calling them Avant Garde films here, but the term feels dated. However I have no better candidates at present. They are Independent but different from the idea of being non-mainstream, they are Counter-cultural except they have now been co-opted more into established culture, they are Experimental but that somehow suggests they are unfinished, they are artists' films but then so are many narrative mainstream films.
For what I have written so far see the list on the left.
One of my 'most-visited' pages is on 'Francis Bacon and Stan Brakhage at the butcher's'.
I attended the Temenos festival in 2012 showing Gregory Markopoulos's Eniaios parts VI, VII and VIII. My diary for this event is available through Sforzinda Books. See My Books.