Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
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DVD Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 12, 2013
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: Kino Lorber
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Pip Chodorov | |
Hosted by | Jonas Mekas & Ken Jacobs |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
There are simply too many obvious condensations and omissions in the course of the meager 82-minute running time ...
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Time Out
Rating: 3/4 --
A worthy baptism for those unacquainted with the genre but less fulfilling, perhaps, for the pre-converted eager to experience more.
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La Movie Boeuf
Rating: 3.5/5 --
This friendly, colorful documentary from Pip Chodorov is not the last word on all the shapes, sizes and languages of experimental film, but rather an introduction brightened by a companionable enthusiasm and an apposite sense of community.
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New York Times
Rating: 3/4 --
A pleasant ramble through little-known cinematic territory.
Seattle Times
Breezy overview of classic cinematic avant garde will be best appreciated by established fans.
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Film Journal International
Rating: B+ --
A playful and audacious homage documentary to the pioneering and economically hard-pressed avant-garde filmmakers from the silents to the present.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Aspires to no less a feat of compression than surveying, in 80 minutes, 10 decades of the filmmaking practice that has variously been described as experimental, nonnarrative, underground, etc.
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Village Voice
Product Description:
It wasn't more than a couple decades after the invention of motion pictures that a number of artists began embracing cinema as a medium of creative expression, rather than just a tool for narrative storytelling or recording events. In the 1920s, European artists influenced by the abstract and surrealist movements began making films that applied a new visual and philosophical perspective to the moving image, and after World War II the experimental film movement began to grow in the United States, as directors such as Stan Brakhage, Ken Jacobs, Jonas Mekas and Robert Breer created works that attracted the attention of adventurous cineastes. Pip Chodorov was raised by parents who were passionate followers of experimental cinema and became friends with some of the leading underground filmmakers of the day; his documentary FREE RADICALS: A STORY OF EXPERIMENTAL FILM offers a look into the history of experimental filmmaking, including interviews with some of the key figures in the movement (including the last interview Brakhage would ever give) and lengthy excerpts from a handful of key films. FREE RADICALS was an official selection at the American Film Institute's 2010 AFI Fest.
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