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2007 Stories by Ed Halter

• The Year in Experimental Cinema

  published December 25, 2007

  Tracing any sort of best-of for the multitudinous varieties of experimental film and video is a fool's errand; here, instead, are 10 notable... More >>

• Visions of Grandeur

  published December 4, 2007

  The art world has recently engaged in a renewed fascination for the heady, rigorous experimental cinema of the late Aquarian age, reviving... More >>

• World Beat

  published October 30, 2007

  The Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival, the Museum of Natural History's annual documentary showcase, often gravitates toward the... More >>

• Lincoln Center South

  published October 2, 2007

  The New York Film Festival's annual experimental sidebar, "Views from the Avant-Garde," has in recent years spilled out of its weekend confines at... More >>

• Scotland Bard

  published August 14, 2007

  Scotland, as seen in the late Bill Douglas's formidable cycle of shorts, My Childhood (1972), My Ain Folk (1973), and My Way... More >>

• Anger Me

  published August 14, 2007

  Could there be any more pitiful irony than that cinematic godhead Kenneth Anger, visionary master of the dark arts, has been trapped within a... More >>

• Shining (Dim) Light in Dark Corners

  published July 24, 2007

  With Colossal Youth, Anthology indulges local screenheads with a full Pedro Costa retrospective—an excellent opportunity to see the... More >>

• Rock Me, Amadeus

  published July 24, 2007

  "We're in a middle of a very annoying generation of Hollywood filmmakers that just want to tell you how evil the world is," says theater director... More >>

• Back to the Future

  published July 10, 2007

  Easily trouncing the recent Hollywood heat rash of over-extended superheroes and Hasbro infomercials, this summer's most satisfying sci-fi... More >>

• A Jones for Indiana

  published June 26, 2007

  Americans love gumption. We believe that stupid ideas become brilliant ones if you just keep working on them with bullish tenacity. We love... More >>

• War, Inc.

  published June 26, 2007

  According to Shadow Company, a documentary about the recent, precipitous rise of mercenaries (or, to use their preferred term, private... More >>

• Reality Czech in Aisle Nine

  published June 5, 2007

  Upgrading Yippie hijinks with Jackass banzai, gonzo documentaries have become the 21st-century answer to political filmmaking in an... More >>

• Pro-Life

  published May 1, 2007

  Iraq is not Vietnam, as the Bush administration and other Republicans have generously taken pains to remind us over the last half decade, but good... More >>

• Unknown White Male

  published April 17, 2007

  Chronicles of Andy Warhol and his circle are in no short supply—the Edie Sedgwick biopic Factory Girl and Ric Burns's Andy Warhol:... More >>

• Creature Feature

  published April 3, 2007

  Like book critics vying to outscribble the tomes they're reviewing, bio-docs of experimental filmmakers frequently tend toward an anxiety of... More >>

• Collective Memory

  published March 27, 2007

  The past of experimental cinema may be overtaking the present. Two of the longest-standing local microcinemas devoted to contemporary... More >>

• More Than Human

  published March 13, 2007

  Werner Herzog's grand theme has long been the quixotic struggle of heroically deluded humans against the implacable powers of the natural... More >>

• MOMA's Best Week Ever

  published February 20, 2007

  This week, the Museum of Modern Art hosts retrospectives of two visionaries whose sensibilities couldn't be further removed: Austrian guerrilla... More >>

• Béla Tarr's Slow Burn

  published February 13, 2007

  Festivals, exhibitors, and critics maintain— both in practice and in attitude—an invisible demarcation between the avant-garde and the... More >>

• Holland Days

  published January 30, 2007

  Annually slotted in January's frigid tail-end, when film professionals are still skiing in Utah or packing for Berlin, the International Film... More >>

• Kazuo Hara Crosses the Line

  published January 23, 2007

  Though it displays not a single dead body, gory gash, or bombed-out building, and limits its on-screen violence to heated arguments and abortive... More >>

• Before YouTube

  published January 16, 2007

  Earlier this month, the Museum of Modern Art ran a test for Doug Aitken's large-scale outdoor installation Sleepwalkers, a big-budget video art... More >>

• The Clan Jacobs

  published January 9, 2007

  A shuddering, flickering tribute to two lost compatriots, Ken Jacobs's Two Wrenching Departures took its original form in 1989 as... More >>

• Film at 11

  published January 2, 2007

  Sitting at his new desk in a recently renovated office overlooking Lenox Avenue at 116th Street in west Harlem, filmmaker Albert Maysles offers up... More >>