2015 Avant-Garde Masters Grants

The Doctor’s Dream

(1978), conventional silent film turned inside out by Ken Jacobs (State University of New York at Binghamton).

Film in Which There Appear Sprocket Holes, Edge Lettering, Dirt Particles, Etc.

(1966), Owen Land’s renowned demonstration of film’s lesser seen qualities (Anthology Film Archives).

A Film of Their 1973 Spring Tour Commissioned by Christian World Liberation Front of Berkeley, CA

(1974), Owen Land’s stroboscopic documentation of counter-cultural religious radicals (Anthology Film Archives).

Institutional Quality

(1969), Owen Land’s self-reflexive repurposing of instructional films (Anthology Film Archives).

Moods of the Sea

(1942), lyrical depiction of California’s coastline by montage masters Slavko Vorkapich and John Hoffman, edited to the sounds of Mendelssohn (UCLA Film & Television Archive).

Twice a Man

(1963), Gregory Markopoulos’s modern version of the myth of Hippolytus, starring Olympia Dukakis (Temenos).

Welcome to Come

(1968), Fred Camper’s one-shot film set to the eponymous Beach Boys song (Chicago Film Society).