This week’s Must Read: Making Light of It has posted another one of its wonderful filmmaker profiles, this time for Marie Menken.
Here’s a new site to take notice of: The Avant-Garde Film Index, which does exactly what its name implies, indexing experimental, avant-garde and underground films. The site appears to be in its very early stages, but we wish them the best of luck and we’ll keep our eye on it as it grows into the essential resource we’re sure it’ll become.
At the Chicago Reader, Ben Sachs interviewed filmmaker Lori Felker about a program of films by Robert Nelson that screened over the weekend at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
Ok, this is a strange one: Filmmaker Jon Jost has taken up the charge to get film professor Ray Carney to return the films and materials of Mark Rappaport who’s been holding onto it for the past few years. It’s an odd, strange odyssey that you can follow first in this post by Jost and then by this follow-up.
