Monday, April 21, 2008

Avant-Garde Cienma Night

I really had a great time at the avant-garde cinema night. My favorite film was the stock broker film, though I fear we may have offended certain Asian members of the audience. My least favorite film was There is A Pervert in the Pool. It simply doesn't interest me at all. I thought, to put it too simply, it was lame.

Cinema explosion was an amazing time that I wish I could have been more involved with. It reminded of something like it must have felt like to be a member of the early avant-garde community in the Village. Maybe its not always easy to understand the films that came from that era, but seeing something like Live Cinema Explosion in action and allowing the audience to be involved in its creation, felt exciting and new. Perhaps that feeling, as base and simple as it is, is the reason why early avant-garde artists even made films to start with. I know that is a gross overstatement, but I feel closer to those artists now.

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