一战以前，影院的的艺术家和诗人往往都是激进分子，他们热衷于拍电影并把这种艺术形式向新的方向发展，他们被排除在艺术领域和电影工厂之外，像是被困在一座孤岛上，他们大胆的创造出自己的电影世界并拥有一个自己的工作网络，并作出了不可估量且有力的贡献
This feature-length documentary provides a vivid, eye-opening, and appropriately personal introduction to one of the most important, yet perpetually marginalized, realms of filmmaking: avant-garde cinema.
Achieving the near-impossible task of doing justice in a mere 82 minutes to this incredibly rich, varied, and expansive domain, FREE RADICALS is as expertly constructed an introduction to the topic as one could hope for, thanks in large part to the films privileging of rare interviews with some of the most important filmmakers in the avant-garde tradition (including Jonas Mekas, Peter Kubelka, Stan Brakhage, and Hans Richter), and its inclusion of several films in their entirety. The film's sincere admiration for its subject is best reflected by Chodorov's own description: "I wanted to share a few of the films I love and introduce you to some of the free, radical artists who made them."

影片是一部影人传记式的纪录片，《玛雅黛伦的魔镜》（In the Mirror of Maya Deren）是一位醉心于实验电影的女导演玛蒂娜库拉席克，追溯前辈玛雅黛伦生平的作品，玛雅黛伦不仅对前卫电影与女性电影多有启发，她对巫毒教的热中，也是这部片的另一条重要线索。

一部由六段分摄于不同时期的胶卷所组合成的编年记事。 约拿斯.梅卡斯以第一人称的日记体，阐述他自1940年代从立陶宛流亡至美国的心情。 梅卡斯的镜头关照着移民社群的日常，也在他方寻找自己的家，如同片中的自述：「我是摄影机的眼睛，我是见证者，我记录了这一切。 我不知道，我是在歌唱还是哭泣？」

A 1971–72 documentary film by Jonas Mekas. It revolves around Mekas' trip back to Semeniškiai, the village of his birth.

In 2007, Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler began a new collaborative project inspired by American author Norman Mailer's 1983 novel Ancient Evenings, set in pharaonic Egypt. The project was conceived as a nontraditional opera with a series of one-time-only live acts performed across the American landscape. The film River of Fundament combines documentation of these three live acts with scenes set in a reconstruction of Norman Mailer's brownstone apartment in Brooklyn Heights. Barney and Bepler's script reimagines Mailer as his own protagonist who reincarnates three times in three different bodies by magically entering the womb of his wife Hathfertiti. With each incarnation the undead Norman emerges from a river of feces that runs beneath his Brooklyn Heights apartment and enters his own wake. Imagined as a memorial gathering attended by figures in the New York literary world, the wake takes place inside the Mailer apartment as it is ferried down the river. Guests eulogize Mailer and ...

我的电影日记 1970-1979：我的婚姻、孩子出生、你看着他们长大。日常生活的镜头、幸福和美丽的片段、法国、意大利、西班牙、奥地利之旅。一年四季穿过纽约。朋友、家庭生活、自然、无休止地寻找美丽的时刻和庆祝生命的友谊、感觉、短暂的幸福时刻。这部电影也是我写给纽约的情诗。

“A motion picture composed of brief diaristic scenes not used in completed films from the years 1960-2000; and self-referential video footage taped during the editing. Brief glimpses of family, friends, girl-friends, the City, seasons of the year, travels. Occasionally I talk, reminisce, or play music I taped during those earlier years, plus more recent piano improvisations by Auguste Varkalis. It’s a kind of autobiographical, diaristic poem, celebration of happiness and life. I consider myself a happy man.” –J.M.
“In a film of amazing delicacy and poetic insight, Mekas celebrates the beauty of imperfect images…” –Amy Taubin
“OUT-TAKES starts with Mekas alone at night while the city sleeps, editing his old films. As he looks back over his life he starts to talk, insisting that his life’s work amounts to ‘just images, some fragments of this world’ that he will bring together for himself and a few friends. But as images of the people who brought joy into his life pass by, we realize that most of them are no longer alive. Mekas sees them again, but he is seeing them alone. As much as it is about his happy life, the film is also about emptiness, loss, and a longing for some sort of spiritual consolation. At one moment the cover of St John of the Cross’s MEDITATIONS appears on screen. This is Mekas’s long dark night of the soul.” – Richard Dorment, THE TELEGRAPH
Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man, Jonas Mekas
USA/UK, 2012, 68 min, 16mm&video, color, mono

《帝国大厦》是一出由美国艺术家安迪·沃霍制作，于1964年首映的黑白无声电影，片场8小时5分钟，内容仅为纽约市帝国大厦于8小时内的变化。沃霍制作此电影的目的是制造一个观赏性极低的电影，因此他禁止人们删减电影情节。可是，一个意大利艺术家却于2000年与安迪·沃霍博物馆合制了此电影的60分钟浓缩版本。