James S. Watson

Seventeen examples of avant garde film, including 16 short films and the full-length classic Traité de bave et d'éternité (aka: Venom and eternity).

Long before home video there flourished an alternative cinema culture on college campuses and around art theaters, where foreign film fare was often accompanied by a short subject. As reliable 16mm film equipment became available to non-professionals, artists independent of film centers began experimenting with cinema. Serious film societies sprang up in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, holding semi-private screenings of non-commercial...