FILM

Aurora Picture Show presents Where is the Avant-garde Cinema Today?, A 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 (pictured)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).