Avant garde film

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‘THE LOVE OF ZERO’: ROBERT FLOREY’S AVANT GARDE SHORT FROM 1927 Films, Portraits, Alfred Stieglitz, Avant Garde, Philip Glass, Silent Film, Robinson Jeffers, Film Noir, Avant Garde Film

The Love of Zero is a rather remarkable, short experimental film, made for $200 by director Robert Florey, in 1927. Owing much to German Expressionist cinema, the film tells the story of a young man, Zero (Joseph Marievsky), and his love for a young woman called, Beatrix (Tamara Shavrova). It was Florey’s second film, and reveals the talent he would employ in his long and successful career as a Hollywood director of such films as Murders in the Rue Morgue, Ex-Lady, The Marx Brothers’…

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Julia Mathews
Inspiration, Cindy Sherman, Stavanger, Photography, Avant Garde, Artist At Work, Untitled Film Stills, Feminist Artist, Film Stills

A gaudy pink-plexiglass wheelchair and four photos of a cheeky young woman about to spit out brightly colored Lego bricks currently greet visitors to Verbund’s Vienna headquarters (where, in the publicly accessible foyer, stairwell, and corridors, the Austrian utilities company regularly showcases its art collection). These are among the roughly forty works by the seldom-exhibited artist Renate Bertlmann (b. 1943) that constitute her first major exhibition in her home country. The show…

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j. Madison Rink