Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and avant-garde film, especially as practiced by individual artists. It features a mixture of reviews, interviews, and essays. A Review by David Finkelstein. Catalysts and Aftershocks is a poignant and poetic four-and-a-half-minute silent short by Jessica J Giacobbe, examining a garden and an old […]
Film Scratches: Structures to Contain Women – Noe Kidder’s Zone Four (2015)
June 20, 2016
Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and avant-garde film, especially as practiced by individual artists. It features a mixture of reviews, interviews, and essays. A Review by David Finkelstein. “The Women of Zone Four did not belong to themselves,” begins the first voice-over narration of Zone Four, a dense and […]
Film Scratches: Escape into Hell – M. Woods’ A Day in a Place (2012)
June 20, 2016
Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and avant-garde film, especially as practiced by individual artists. It features a mixture of reviews, interviews, and essays. A Review by David Finkelstein. “I don’t know why I do it. I just go away,” announces a young woman in a short blue dress and […]
Film Scratches: Music from the Noise – M. Woods’ Post-Panoptic Gazing (2015)
June 7, 2016
Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and avant-garde film, especially as practiced by individual artists. It features a mixture of reviews, interviews, and essays. A Review by David Finkelstein. Post-Panoptic Gazing is M. Woods’ delirious, omnivorous mashup of original and found footage, both digital and celluloid. Woods plunges the viewer […]
Film Scratches: Mixing the Mythic and the Poetic in Por Dinero (2011)
May 7, 2016
Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and avant-garde film, especially as practiced by individual artists. It features a mixture of reviews, interviews, and essays. A Review by David Finkelstein. Por Dinero is an engaging portrait of an indigenous family in the remote town of Panixtlahuaca in Oaxaca, Mexico, and the […]
Film Scratches: Trojan Horse Malware Infecting Us All – H. by Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia
April 11, 2016
Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and avant-garde film, especially as practiced by individual artists. It features a mixture of reviews, interviews, and essays. A Review by David Finkelstein. H. (2014), a haunting and poetic new feature by Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia, presents motifs from the story of Helen of […]
Film Scratches: Violence Tamed – Wheeler Winston Dixon’s An American Dream (2016)
April 4, 2016
Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and avant-garde film, especially as practiced by individual artists. It features a mixture of reviews, interviews, and essays. A Review by David Finkelstein. An American Dream, a new 34-minute found footage film by Wheeler Winston Dixon, consists of public domain footage clips, almost all of […]
Film Scratches: Bali Descends Into Modern Capitalism in Rice for Sale (2013)
March 1, 2016
Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and avant-garde film, especially as practiced by individual artists. It features a mixture of reviews, interviews, and essays. A Review by David Finkelstein. In Rice for Sale, filmmakers Brendan and Jeremy Smyth have tried to use documentary footage which they shot in Bali to […]
Film Scratches: Connecting Personal and National History in The Royal Road (2015)
September 24, 2015
Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and avant-garde film, especially as practiced by individual artists. It features a mixture of reviews, interviews, and essays. A Review by David Finkelstein. The Royal Road, Jenni Olson’s thoughtful and beautiful essay film on love, longing, the movies, and California history, has received […]
Film Scratches: Janie Geiser on the Life of Objects
September 10, 2015
Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and avant-garde film, especially as practiced by individual artists. It features a mixture of reviews, interviews, and essays. An Interview by David Finkelstein. Janie Geiser has been making objects come alive in performance works since 1981 and in films since 1989. She has […]