University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Spanish professor Eduardo Ledesma examined how experimental filmmakers in Latin America and Spain use alternative film formats in his new book “Expanding ...

“Welcome to Solomania,” said Melinda Barlow, Associate Professor of Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts at the University of Colorado. This was said not at the beginning or end of her introduction, ...

The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene has to offer. In searching for a concise definition of experimental cinema ...

Phil Solomon, who used repurposed footage, manipulated images and striking soundtracks to make evocative experimental films that were widely admired by hard-core cinephiles, died on April 20 near ...

Most cinephiles consider the 1970s a high point for American movies. By the end of the 1960s, the studio system that dominated the movies from the beginning broke down, making room for the New ...

“Still Film” is a very simple assemblage of very few moving parts. Yet the combined result projects the filmmaker’s creative range, from his reverence for film and the staying power of Hollywood rumor ...

When it comes to movies, I think I've seen just about everything the medium has to offer. I've seen nearly 6,000 films. I've seen features, shorts, experimental cinema. I've seen bands perform a ...

In the 1920s, a new kind of movie started showing in Paris theatres, and the audiences were… confused. These movies were a radical departure from the ones they had known until then. These new films ...

When thinking about filmmaking, many might default to a mental image of a large, rectangular screen in a dark room, where the audience takes the role of a passive viewer. “I want them to find their ...

Denver’s a pretty great film town, but that doesn’t mean that all of cinema’s many niches and genres are equally well represented. You can always catch a blockbuster film at any neighborhood multiplex ...