Appendix: Film Sources

The following information is far from exhaustive and is only intended to assist readers in finding films specifically referred to in this book. In addition to the sources mentioned below, there are other distributors of avant-garde films, as well as many universities, museums, and public libraries with film collections containing work by avant-garde filmmakers. The names of film distributors will be shortened or abbreviated as follows:

Canyon—Canyon Cinema, 2325 3d St., Suite 338, San Francisco, CA 94107

CFMDC—Canadian Filmmaker's Distribution Centre, 67A Portland St., Toronto, Ontario M5V 2M(

Corinth—Corinth Films, 34 Gansevoort St., New York, NY 10014

FMC—Filmmakers' Cooperative, 175 Lexington Ave., New York, NY 10016

MOMA—Museum of Modern Art Film Circulation, 11 W. 53d St., New York, NY 10019

Mystic Fire—Mystic Fire Video, 24 Horatio St., New York, NY 10014

NFB—National Film Board of Canada, 1251 Avenue of the Americas (16th Floor), New York, NY 10020

Kenneth Anger's films are available from Canyon and can be purchased on video from Mystic Fire. Stan Brakhage's films are available from FMC and Canyon. CFMDC also has a large selection of Brakhage's films, and Mystic Fire sells Dog Star Man on video. Paul Sharits's films are available from FMC and Canyon, and Michael Snow's films from CFMDC and FMC. James Whitney's films are distributed by MOMA, and they are available on video from Mystic Fire. As of this writing, Jordan Belson has withdrawn his films from circulation. Several of his early films are in the collection of Anthology Film Archives in New York, and Mystic Fire sells Samadhi and Other Films on video, with Belson's original sound-tracks replaced by a musical score by John Luther Adam. The videotape includes

fragments of Re-Entry, Samadhi, World , and Chakra , as well as footage made in the 1980s and not previously released.

The classic avant-garde films of the 1920s—Ballet mécanique, Un Chien andalou, Emak Bakia, Etoile de mer, The Man with a Movie Camera —are available from MOMA. Sources for other films mentioned in the book are as follows:

Arnulf Rainer (Peter Kubelka, 1960) Canyon and FMC
Around Perception (Pierre Hébert, 1968) NFB
Blood of a Poet (Jean Cocteau, 1930) Corinth
Bolero (Albie Thoms, 1967) The National Library, Canberra, Australia, and the Royal Belgian Film Archive, Brussels
The Cage (Sidney Peterson, 1947) Canyon and FMC
Cinetude 2 (Keith Rodan, 1969) CFMDC
Geography of the Body (Willard Maas, 1943) FMC
The Flicker (Tony Conrad, 1966) Canyon and FMC
The Lead Shoes (Sidney Peterson, 1949) Canyon and FMC
Mr. Frenhofer and the Minotaur (Sidney Peterson, 1949) Canyon and FMC
N.Y., N.Y. (Francis Thompson, 1957) MOMA
Raindance (Standish Lawder, 1972) Canyon and FMC
Serene Velocity (Ernie Gehr, 1970) Canyon and FMC
Spherical Spaces No. 1 (Stan Vanderbeek, 1961) Canyon and FMC