Avant Trash: Works of Urban Desperation features three highly influential incredibly fun, and RARELY SHOWN short works by famed avant-garde filmmakers Kenneth Anger, George Kuchar and Mike Kuchar - all of them exploring the intersection of high avant-gardism and low campiness - plus a short film by notorious “Cinema of Transgression” director Richard Kern. The other works on the program are gritty urban folktales directed by a youger generation, sharing some of the moods and devices of the Kuchar brothers, Anger and Kern.

Featured Artists Kenneth Anger, Leslie McCleave, Max Andersson, George Kuchar & Mike Kuchar, Richard Kern,
Programmed by literary critic and journeyman curator David Mikics. Mr. Mikics will be in attendance!

Curator Bio: David Mikics is some sort of professor at UH, but he has been interested in movies since he was a kid in New Jersey, long before the invention of microcinemas. He has published an article on Hitchcock and also written a lot on contemporary poetry and fiction, for the Village Voice as well as academic jounals. He also wroe a book on Renaissance literature. He likes teaching film classes and his ambition is to teach at a movie theatre or a church rather than a university. He has lived in New York, New Haven, Atlanta, Houston and Berlin. He has no pets, does not worship Satan, and has never met Blixa Bargeld. Support the Aurora Picture Show!!