Where is the Avant-garde Cinema Today
VIDEO SALON With Michael Sicinski
Sunday, August 16, 1PM
Location: Aurora Video Library, 1524 Sul Ross
Free Admission

If we bring two or more distinct media-worlds together, will traditional experimental cinema always end up on the losing end? Specific topics will include music videos, amateur experiments on YouTube, narrative film excerpts and modernist international cinemas (e.g. Kiarostami, Hou, Sokurov, Tarr, Apichatpong) that evince an engagement with avant-garde histories and procedures.

Michael Sicinski is a writer and teacher currently living in Houston, TX. His area of specialty is experimental film and video, which he has taught at Syracuse University, Binghamton University, and UC Berkeley. He is a regular contributor to numerous publications including Cinema Scope (Canada), Cineaste (U.S.) and Cargo (Germany).