Structuralist, Collagist and Surrealist Film: The Poetics of Avant-Garde Cinema
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1940s and 1950s includes a selection of rarely screened works of experimental cinema. The program includes “Aviary” (1955) and “A Legend for Fountains” (1957-1970) by artist Joseph Cornell; “Ritual in Transfigured Time” (1946) by the legendary Maya Deren; the playful “The Potted Psalm” by Sidney Peterson and James Broughton; “The Pursuit of Happiness” (1940) and “Under the Brooklyn Bridge” (1953) by photographer and artist Rudy Burkhardt; “The Way to Shadow Garden” (1955) by a young Stan Brakhage; “Radio Dynamics” (1943) by abstract experimentalist Oskar Fischinger; and “Color Cry” (1952) by animator Len Lye. See Screens story on p.46 or www.austinfilm.org for more on the series.

This article appears in July 6 • 2001.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.