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1 With roots going back almost thirty years, to the first films of Maya Deren in the early 1940s, there was plenty of material to organize.

Adams Sitney wrote a manifesto for the Anthology Film Archives that expressed its desire to preserve the great artistic monuments of the cinema just as a museum conserves and presents the other visual arts. Avant-garde film-also identified as underground, experimental, or New American cinema-is generally a 16mm filmmaking practice that occurs outside of the Hollywood-based industry, which it often opposes (purposefully or not) by exploring aspects of cinematic space, time, and perception ignored by mainstream narrative feature film. On December 1, 1970, Anthology Film Archives in New York City opened its doors as the first institution solely dedicated to the preservation, exhibition, and study of avantgarde cinema. While filmmakers who had been active for decades-such as Stan Brakhage, James Broughton, or Bruce Conner-continued to work, a new generation of artists influenced by Minimalism, film theory, and feminism exploded the parameters of the avant-garde with a multitude of experimental films. Furthermore, due partially to growing interest in film by the National Endowment for the Arts and by universities, which occasionally hired and taught the work of avant-garde filmmakers, the 1970s was a decade of tremendous diversity in experimental filmmaking. While the following chapter attempts to account for experimental filmmaking practices in the 1970s in the United States, it inevitably omits films of value that have failed to receive either notice or adequate distribution. But avant-garde film has rarely found its way into either film scholarship or undergraduate syllabi. Since the entrance of film studies into the university in the 1960s, mainstream cinema has received increasing critical attention, which has led to the establishment of a canon of films deserving of and receiving ongoing consideration. When the art under consideration is the cinema, the problem is magnified. The writing of any history of the avant-garde in the arts is an undertaking fraught with difficulties due to the esoteric nature of much experimental work.

The irregular at magic high school movie canon