Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film (2011)

Stan Brakhage as Himself Died 2003 · Kansas City, Missouri, USA Stan Brakhage is one of the most influential filmmakers in American avant-garde cinema, noted for his unflinching social commentaries and technical innovations. Over his nearly 40-year career, he has...

Robert Breer as Himself Died 2011 · Detroit, Michigan, USA Born in 1926 in Detroit, Robert Breer has spent fifty years building up a totally atypical body of work which plays with different genres and abolishes the notions of space and time. Starting off as...

Ken Jacobs as Himself Died 2025 · Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, USA A pioneer of the American film avant-garde of the 1960s and '70s, Ken Jacobs is a central figure in post-war experimental cinema. From his first films of the late 1950s to his recent experiments with...

Peter Kubelka as Himself Age 92 · Wien, Austria Peter Kubelka (born 23 March 1934 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian experimental filmmaker, architect, musician, curator and lecturer. His films are primarily short experiments in linking seemingly d...

Jonas Mekas as Himself Died 2019 · Semeniškiai, Lithuania Jonas Mekas (12-24-1922 - 1-23-2019) was born in the farming village of Semeniškiai, Lithuania. In 1944, he and his brother Adolfas were taken by the Nazis to a forced labor camp in Elmshorn, Germany....