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Reflections from the Avant-Garde Series: 1968: An International Perspective [April 29-May 14] Director: Various, Runtime: 84 Already radical in form, avant-garde films were no less affected by the political and cultural currents of 1968 than other areas of cinema. In this program, three shorts each in their way capture the spirit of '68. Dedicated to and starring San Francisco poet David Franks, T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G (Paul Sharits, US, 1968) powerfully captures that unique combination of the ecstatic and the violent that characterizes so much of the era's art. Brilliantly colored images flash by while an aural mantra of a single word is repeated. The film becomes an open text of color, imagery, movement and sound waiting to be redesigned by the viewer. “An avant-garde assault!” - Michael Joshua Rowin, The L Magazine. Described by Jonas Mekas as "maybe the best (or richest) political movie around,"� Rat Life and Diet in North America (Joyce Weiland, Canada, 1968) details the daring escape by a band of revolutionary gerbils from their skulking cat jailers and their liberation in Canada. Quick Billy (Bruce Baillie, US, 1971) is a record of the filmmaker's physical and spiritual journey, a search for self at a time in which the old values and conventions no longer apply. Partially inspired by the Bardo Thodol aka, The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Quick Billy merges the American myth of the West (and its corollary of self-discovery) with an Eastern spiritual sensibility that seeks unity with the absolute.

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