Jon Behrens's Links

Film Festivals:

Chicago Underground Film Festival (CUFF)

Find a list of resources and general information for this annual festival which is dedicated to the experimental filmmaker. http://www.cuff.org/

New York Underground Film Festival (NYUFF)

Festival devoted to films and videos considered underground or subversive. With archives, links, and archived films and videos from years past. http://www.nyuff.com/

Film Groups and Collectives:

Flicker Home Page

The Worlds best collection of information about experimental film on the world wide web. The Flicker, home page for the alternative cinematic experience. Here you will find films and videos that transgress the boundaries of the traditional viewing experience, challenge notions of physical perception and provide cutting edge alternatives to the media information technocracy. http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/flicker.pl

Filmmakers Cooperative

largest archive and distributor of independent and avant-garde films in the world. Created by artists in 1962, the Co-op has more than 5,000 films and videotapes in its collection. http://www.film-makerscoop.com/core.html

Anthology Film Archives

Anthology Film Archives evolved from roots and visions that go back to the early Sixties, when Jonas Mekas, the director of the Film-Makers' Cinematheque, a showcase for avant-garde films, dreamed of establishing a permanent home where the growing number of new independent/avant-garde films could be shown on a regular basis.

This dream became a reality in 1969 when Jerome Hill, P. Adams Sitney, Peter Kubelka, Stan Brakhage, and Jonas Mekas drew up plans to create a museum dedicated to the vision of the art of cinema as guided by the avant-garde sensibility. A Film Selection committee -- James Broughton, Ken Kelman, Peter Kubelka, Jonas Mekas and P. Adams Sitney -- was formed to establish a definitive collection of films (The Essential Cinema Repertory) and form the structure of the new institution. http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/index2.html

Canyon Cinema

Canyon Cinema is the most successful and enduring organization of filmmakers dedicated to the distribution, promotion, education and preservation of motion picture film as an art form. Canyon Cinema was born in 1961, in filmmaker Bruce Baillie's backyard as a venue of alternative cinema. Since 1966, Canyon Cinema has served the international filmmaking community as a leading distributor and access facility of experimental and independent films. http://www.canyoncinema.com

Film and Video Arts

founded in 1968, Film/Video Arts provides a fertile environment where emerging and established film, video and digital media producers of diverse backgrounds can take courses, rent production equipment and edit their projects - all under one roof. http://www.fva.com

Harry Smith Archive's

Resource devoted to this filmmaker, animator and musician noted for his film-painting techniques. Review a filmography and a calendar of events. http://www.harrysmitharchives.com/