Arts Forum

Avant-garde cinema historian P. Adams Sitney discusses the work of independent filmmakers James Broughton and Joel Singer.

A visionary, perhaps. Hard to follow, absolutely.

P. Adams Sitney talks with John Hanhardt, film and video curator at the Whitney Museum, and filmmaker Jonas Mekas of the Anthology Film Archives for this episode of Arts Forum. ...

George Kuchar interviewed by P. Adams Sitney on WNYC.

"Before you begin new constellations of work, you have to first rid your mind of the clichés."

P. Adams Sitney interviews Howard Guttenplan, executive director of the Millennium Film Workshop, and filmmaker Warren Sonbert. Guttenplan, Sonbert and Jonas Mekas have an upcom...

P. Adams Sitney on the 5th International Experimental Film Competition.

With the flicker effect he is interested in generating temporal colors that collide in the viewers mind though the persistance of vision.

P. Adams Sitney talks with Jacques Ledoux.

A young filmmaker discusses his work and technique.

"I can see some of my films being shown in a gallery but I wouldn't prefer that over a showcase situation mainly because you'd have people walking in and out."

The semantics of the 'avant-garde,' 'independent,' and 'art' as applied to film and more.

Jonas Mekas interviews poet and filmmaker James Broughton.

The relationship between film, dance and the body.

Jonas Mekas spends his first broadcast explaining the scope of his future shows: what he calls "non-narrative" films.