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Home » experimental video

Tag: experimental video

Posted inFilm

Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby create bittersweet experimental videos exploring life’s big questions

by Adam Mullins-Khatib November 20, 2019August 18, 2021

“Amazements,” a screening of recent and older works, screens at the Block Museum of Art.

Posted inBlogs

With Untitled (Just Kidding) local artist Jesse Malmed lets you in on the joke of language

by Ben Sachs April 10, 2017August 18, 2021

Malmed’s program of experimental videos screens at the Museum of Contemporary Art this Tuesday at 6 PM.

Posted inBlogs

Blackhat isn’t a failed action movie—it’s a big-budget avant-garde film

by Ben Sachs January 27, 2015August 18, 2021

What an unlikely, perverse thing that Michael Mann has made

Posted inBlogs

The next month is the time to catch the thriving local experimental-video-art scene

by Ben Sachs January 20, 2015August 18, 2021

A preview of programs by local and formerly local artists Jake Barningham, Michele Smith, Jesse Malmed, and Melika Bass

Posted inBlogs

Wrestling With My Father: The best four and a half minutes you’ll spend at the movies this weekend

by Ben Sachs August 29, 2013August 19, 2021

A review of a short experimental video screening as part of the Nightingale’s Charles Fairbanks program on Saturday night

Still from John Smith's OM (1986)
Posted inFilm

Pushed to the Limit

by Fred Camper September 6, 2001August 19, 2021

Films and videos by John Smith

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