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I've been a huge fan of the Other Cinema distributors for years. I own just about their entire catalog. Most of their stuff deals with the Situationalist Movement, (collage cinema, [taking from a fair amount of clips from other films and footage and editing them together to create meanings from them like Soviet Montage]). Craig Baldwin is one of their heavy-hitters, he actually not many years ago came out with a much anticipated, (for me), film called Mock Up on Mu which was quite the sensation for me. I wrote a review for it last time I was on here if you'd like to check it out. But they also host things outside of Situationalism, they have all sorts of Experimental Films. Experimental animation, Experimental horror, (which the horror has 3 installments to the series, but they only publish 2 of them), Experimental Erotic Films, (which was the first time I was exposed to director Peggy Ahwesh), even whole films devoted to B-movie Trailers and 70's commercials. They have a magazine I've wanted to subscribe to for sometime but never had the cash. Bottom line, check these guys out if you're interested in avant-garde/experimental, (or as Baldwin likes to put it), "underground" films.
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This actually sounds really cool. Wish I had the cash to purchase some of their releases.
Well Tribulation 99, (the entire film), can be found on the net here:



So check that out first and see if you like it. That's my favorite Baldwin film, and very "Situationalist".

As far as their catalog is concerned in other Experimental films, (not just Situationalism), I'd recommend to you Anxious Animation and the Experiments in Terror Series. Those are good starting points I feel.

http://www.amazon.com/Anxious-Animat...ious+animation

Buying it "new" from a Third Party is $11 and "used" from a Third Party is $5.

http://www.amazon.com/Experiments-Te...ents+in+terror

http://www.amazon.com/Experiments-Te...ents+in+terror

The Experiments in Terror Series, (though I'm leaving out the Third One, and that one is also fantastic should you choose to check it out).

They run $12-15 "new" and $6-7 "used" Third Party on Amazon.

The Third installment is here:

http://www.amazon.com/Experiments-Te...ents+in+terror

Which is much more pricey because apparently it's OOP right now, I'm guessing.

Anyway, that's just giving you some idea of what to look for and forward too if this stuff peaks your interest.



Here's some works from the compilation DVD Anxious Animation

Jim Trainor





(Rodney Ascher, Syd Garon, Eric Henry)

http://video.yandex.ru/users/urikis/view/258/



And one from the compilation DVD's Experiments in Terror, (the only clip that I could find actually).




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