People interested in the full possibilities of film and video, pushing boundaries, expanding horizons, delighting viewers while respecting their intelligence.
Free jazz, The Pogues, Prince, Willie Colon, The Fishtank Ensemble, Listing Ship, Vinny Golia, Charlie Haden, Ornette Coleman, Nels Cline, Alex Cline, Ben Goldberg, Mal Waldron, Steve Lacy, Cecil Taylor, Fela Kuti, Velvet Underground, Funkadelic, John Fahey, Brian Eno, Art Hodes, Sidney Bechet, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Sun Ra, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Albert Ayler, William Parker, Matthew Shipp, Andrew Hill, Bach, Steve Reich, James Brown, Bobby Bradford, Horace Silver, Bennie Maupin, Myra Melford, Cryptogramophone and Nine Winds labels, Charles Mingus, Ray Charles, David Bowie, Nina Simone, Al Green, Dock Boggs, Charlie Poole, Ralph Stanley, Orchestra Baobab, Ben Webster, Johnny Hodges, Sly and the Family Stone, Dave Douglas, The Alloy Orchestra, Toru Takemitsu, Eddie Palmieri, Cachao, Beny More, Moondog, Jameel Moondoc, Horace Tapscott, Billy Higgins, Roberto Miranda, Dr. Art Davis, Charles Owens
Films and videos by Harry Smith, Jordan Belson, John & James Whitney, Stan Brakhage, Pat O'Neill, Morgan Fisher, David Lebrun, Amy Halpern, Owen Land, William E. Jones, Thom Andersen, Travis Wilkerson, Yoko Ono, Mary Ellen Bute, Sheila Sofian, Christine Panushka, Elisabeth Subrin, Sadie Benning, James Benning, Fluxus, Rebecca Baron, Peter Tscherkassky, Vlatko Gilik, Peter Adair, Juan Carlos Rulfo, Caspar Stracke, Naomi Uman, Lewis Klahr, Janie Geiser, Michael Snow, Jonas Mekas, Craig Baldwin, Melinda Stone, Joe Gibbons, Martha Colburn, Bruce Baillie, Chick Strand, Curtis Harrington, Suzan Pitt, Betzy Bromberg, Beth Block, Lisa Mann, Gary Kibbins, Erika Suderberg, S.E. Barnet, Adele Horne, James Broughton, Bill Morrison, Animal Charm, Greta Snider, Vanessa Renwick, Henry Hills, Tyler Hubby, Kenneth Anger, Mark Street, Ernie Gehr, Paul Sharits, Norman McLaren, Shirley Clarke, Wendy Clarke, Maya Deren, Andy Warhol, Ricky Leacock, Len Lye, Abigail Child, Su Friedrich, Peter Watkins, Gustav Deutsch, Jan Svankmajer, Ralph Steiner, Baerbel Neubauer, Scott Stark, Barbara Hammer, Oskar Fischinger, Marjorie Keller, Bill Moritz, Peter Mays, Patrick Halm, Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi, Gerard Holthius, Peggy Ahwesh, Michele Smith, Christian Bauer, Bill Brown, Jennifer Montgomery, Tellervo Kalleinen, Pip Chodorov, Jules Engel, Ross Lipman, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Dominic Angerame, Lynne Sachs, Ken Kobland, Les LeVeque, Martin Arnold, Matthias Mueller, Amie Siegel, Barbara Rubin, Laura and Blue Kraning, Ben Russell, Thomas Comerford, George Kuchar, Sarah Miles, Laura Waddington, Vision Machine, Kazuo Hara, Peter Semple, Miranda July, Trink T. Minh-Ha, Alain Guiraudie, Alfred Guzzetti, Jennifer Gentile, Michael Brynntrup, and many more!
The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles, by David E. James; Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde, 1943-2000 by P. Adams Sitney; A Line Of Sight: American Avant-Garde Film Since 1965 by Paul Arthur; A Critical Cinema vol 1-5: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers (Critical Cinema) by Scott MacDonald; A History of Experimental Film and Video by A. L. Rees; Film Culture Reader by P. Adams Sitney; Experimental Cinema, The Film Reader (In Focus: Routledge Film Readers), by Wheeler Dixon; Underground Film: A Critical History, by Parker Tyler; Allegories of Cinema: American Film in the Sixties, by David E. James; Film As a Subversive Art, by Amos Vogel; F is for Phony, edited by Jesse Lerner and Alex Juhasz; The Sons and Daughters of Los: Culture and Community in L.A (Wide Angle Books), by David E. James; Stan Brakhage: Filmmaker (Wide Angle Books) edited by David E. James; Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary by Bill Nichols; Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde, by Bill Nichols; Essential Brakhage: Selected Writings on Film-Making, by Stan Brakhage and Bruce R. McPherson; Film at Wit's End: Eight Avant-Garde Filmmakers, by Stan Brakhage; Telling Time: Essays of a Visionary Filmmaker, by Stan Brakhage; Metaphors on vision, by Stan Brakhage; Film Biographies, by Stan Brakhage; The Subject of Documentary (Visible Evidence, V. 16), by Michael Renov; Theorizing Documentary (Afi Film Reader), by Michael Renov; Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices, by Michael Renov and Erika Suderburg; Introduction to Documentary, by Bill Nichols; Optical Poetry: The Life and Work of Oskar Fischinger, by William Moritz; From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film (Princeton Classic Editions), by Siegfried Kracauer; A New History of Documentary Film, by Jack C. Ellis and Betsy A. Mclane; The Garden in the Machine: A Field Guide to Independent Films about Place, by Scott MacDonald; The Digital Film Event, by Trinh T. Minh-ha; Chick Flicks : Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement, by B. Ruby Rich; Cinematic Modernism: Modernist Poetry and Film, by Susan McCabe; Modernist Montage: The Obscurity of Vision in Cinema and Literature, by P. Adams Sitney; The Vatican to Vegas: The History of Special Effects, by Norman M. Klein; Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons, by Jonathan Rosenbaum; Masters of Animation, by John Grant; Visual Thinking, by Rudolf Arnheim; Authorship and Film (AFI Film Readers), by David A. Gerstner and Janet Staiger; Len Lye, by Roger Horrocks; Collecting Visible Evidence, by Jane Gaines and Michael Renov.
Georges Melies, Man Ray, Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage, the Lumieres, Slavko Vorkapitch, Dziga Vertov, Hollis Frampton, Jean Rouch.