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Mustafa Abu Ali
Marina Abramoviç
Vito Acconci
Adbusters
Bas Jan Ader
Masao Adachi
Peggy Ahwesh
Eija-Liisa Ahtila
Doug Aitken
Igor and Gleb Aleinikov
Francis Alÿs
Erik Anderson
Laurie Anderson
Kenneth Anger
Ant Farm
Karel Appel
Cory Arcangel
Skip Arnold
Antonin Artaud
Robert Ashley
Fred Astaire
Michel Auder
Beth B
Francis Bacon
Alex Bag
Derek Bailey
John Baldessari
Craig Baldwin
J.G. Ballard
Banksy
Piero Bargellini
Matthew Barney
Eric Baudelaire
Colin Barton
Pina Bausch
Jean Baudrillard
Otmar Bauer
Bauhaus Documentary
Jean Beaudin
yann beauvais
Stephen Beck
Samuel Beckett
Captain Beefheart
David Behrman
Zoe Beloff
Guy Ben-Ner
Lynda Benglis
John Berger
Charles Bernstein
Joseph Beuys
Dara Birnbaum
Jeremy Blake
Christian Boltanski
Gregg Bordowitz
Jorge Luis Borges
Walerian Borowczyk
Paul Bowles
Stan Brakhage
George Brecht
James Broughton
Marcel Broodthaers
Robert Breer
Klaus vom Bruch
Gunter Brus
Matthew Buckingham
Chris Burden
William S. Burroughs
Mary Ellen Bute
David Byrne
John Cage
Alexander Calder
John Cale
Raymonde Carasco
Cioni Carpi
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Jack Chambers
Paul Chan
Yin-Ju Chen & James T. Hong
Abigail Child
Segundo de Chomón
Henri Chopin
Cinema of Transgression
Robert Clampett
Rene Clair
Shirley Clarke
Carlfriedrich Claus
Chuck Close
Bob Cobbing
Jean Cocteau
Émile Cohl
COLAB
Julian Cooper
Anton Corbijn
Jospeh Cornell
Pierre Coulibeuf
Merce Cunningham
Ivor Cutler
Keren Cytter
Salvador Dalí
Dance with Camera
Jim Davis
Emile de Antonio
Storm de Hirsch
Guy Debord
Burt Deling
Wim Delvoye
Thomas Demand
Maya Deren
Eugene Deslaw
Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn





Peter Donebauer
Cheryl Donegan
Stan Douglas
Jean-Marie Drot
Marcel Duchamp
Germaine Dulac
Henri d'Ursel
Stephen Dwoskin
Dziga Vertov Group
Gwilly Edmondez
Viking Eggeling
Ed van der Elsken
Ed Emshwiller
Brian Eno
Jean Epstein
Gerhard Ertl & Sabine Hiebler
Koto Ezawa
Molissa Fenley
Luc Ferrari
Robert Fitterman
Kit Fitzgerald & David Sanborn
Thorsten Fleisch
Flux Films
Harrell Fletcher
Richard Foreman
Forum Lenteng
William Forsyth
Hollis Frampton
Tessa Hughes-Freeland
Dara Friedman
Su Friedrich
Rainer Ganahl
Philippe Garrel
Antonio Gaudí
Ernie Gehr
Jean Genet
German Dada
Alberto Giacometti
Gianikian and Lucchi
Peter Gidal
Frank E. Gilbreth
Allen Ginsberg
Gilbert & George
François Girard
Paul Glabicki
Philip Glass
Jean-Luc Godard
Doron Golan
Kenneth Goldsmith
Jack Goldstein
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Rodney Graham
Peter Greenaway
Johan Grimonprez
Groupe Medvedkine
Brion Gysin
Barbara Hammer
Alexander Hammid
Hilary Harris
Mona Hatoum
Carl Michael von Hausswolff
Laszlo Hege
Her Noise
Pierre Hébert
Oliver Herring
Helmut Herbst
Piero Heliczer
Gary Hill
Hy Hirsch
Åke Hodell
Abbie Hoffman
Karl Holmqvist
James T. Hong
Rebecca Horn
Hamlet Hovsepian
Alex Hubbard
Ian Hugo
Danièle Huillet
Robert Irwin
Isidore Isou
Joris Ivens
Ken Jacobs
Jalal Jemison
JODI
s Jasper Johns
M Henry Jones
Larry Jordan
James Joyce
Jesper Just
Eduardo Kac
Mauricio Kagel
Pitor Kamler
Mike Kelley
William Kentridge
Richard Kern
Johan van der Keuken
Parviz Khatibi
Karen Kilimnik
Peter Kirby
Raashan Roland Kirk
Dimitri Kirsanov
The Kitchen - Two Moon July
Yves Klein
Clemens Klopfenstein
Alexander Kluge





Joachim Koester
Paul and Marlene Kos
Robert Kramer
Kurt Kren
Ferdinand Kriwet
George Kuchar
Jerzy Kucia
Yayoi Kusama
Erkki Kurenniemi
L'Atelier National du Manitoba
Jacques Lacan
Albert Lamorisse
Andrew Lampert
Standish Lawder
Malcolm Le Grice
Ange Leccia
Mark Leckey
Fernand Leger
Claude LeLouch
Maurice Lemaître
Suzanne Lemaître
Alfred Leslie
György Ligeti
Sharon Lockhart
Alvin Lucier
The Lumière Brothers
Clark Lunberry
John & Evan Lurie
Willard Maas
George Maciunas
Djibril Diop Mambéty
Donato Mancini
Lev Manovich
Chris Mann
Robert Mapplethorpe
Christian Marclay
Chris Marker
Gregory Markopoulos
Toshio Matsumoto
Gordon Matta-Clark
Anthony McCall
Paul McCarthy
Jennifer McCoy & Kevin McCoy
Norman McLaren
Jonathan Meese
Marie Menken
Erno Metzner
Henri Michaux
Henry Miller
Trinh T. Minh-ha
Yukio Mishima
Jean Mitry
Ernst Moerman
László Moholy-Nagy
Meredith Monk
Irene Moon
Jon Moritsugu
Robert Morris
Sarah Morris
Simon Morris
Frank & Caroline Mouris
Otto Muehl
Tracey Moffatt
Shana Moulton
Gordon Mumma
Takeshi Murata
Music with Roots in the Aether
Ronald Nameth
Deimantas Narkevicius
Pandit Pran Nath
Bruce Nauman
Negativland
Werner Nekes
Robert Nelson
Max Neuhaus
New Humans
Phil Niblock
Hermann Nitsch
Ken Nordine
Nobuhiko Obayashi
Hans Ulrich Obrist
Marcel Odenbach
Ken Okiishi
Claes Oldenburg
André Luiz Oliveira
Pauline Oliveros
Ulrike Ottinger
Tony Oursler
Genesis P-Orridge
Nam June Paik
Jean Painleve
Charlemagne Palestine
Arnaud des Pallières
Paper Tiger TV
Sergei Parajanov
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Philippe Parreno
Paper Rad
Oliver Payne & Nick Relph
Alix Pearlstein
Artavazd Peleshian
People Like Us
Sydney Peterson
Kembra Pfahler
Vanessa Place
Tom Phillips
Cesare Pietroiusti
Henri Plaat





Sun Ra
Yvonne Rainer
Robert Rauschenberg
Maja Ratkje
Man Ray
Relational Aesthetics
Jennifer Reeves
Hans Richter
Ron Rice
Terry Riley
David Rimmer
Pipilotti Rist
Donald Ritchie
Alain Robbe-Grillet
John Rose
Peter Rose
Kay Rosen
Martha Rosler
Jeri Cain Rossi
Jean Rouch
Roulette TV
Allen Ruppersberg
Walter Ruttmann
Sackner Archive
Sara Sackner
Ali Akbar Sadeghi
Anri Sala
Alejandra Salinas and Aeron Bergman
Helke Sander
Aram Saroyan
Aki Sasamoto
Wilhelm Sasnal
Janek Schaefer
Carolee Schneemann
Werner Schroeter
Lillian Schwartz
Richard Serra
Ivko Šešić
Paul Sharits
Cindy Sherman
Fatboy Slim
Charles Simonds
Situationist Documentary
Ture Sjölander & Lars Weck
Alexis Smith
Jack Smith
Kiki Smith
Michael Smith
Robert Smithson
Michael Snow
Jeremy Solterbeck
Alexander Sokurov
Lionel Soukaz
Ladislaw Starewicz
Gertrude Stein
Ralph Steiner
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Paul Strand
Jean-Marie Straub
Beat Streuli
Survival Research Laboratories
Taj Mahal Travellers
Mika Tajima
Ito Takashi
Jerry Tartaglia
Sam Taylor-Wood
Shuji Terayama
Ralph Thanhauser
Francis Thompson
David Van Tieghem
Ryan Trecartin
Sam Truitt
Ulay
Stan VanDerBeek
Agnes Varda
Ben Vautier
Edgard Varêse & Le Corbusier
Woody & Steina Vasulka
Dziga Vertov
Rene Vienet
Artie Vierkant
Slavko Vorkapich
Robert Watts
William Wegman
Flora Wiegmann
Herman G. Weinberg
Andy Warhol
James Sibley Watson
Gillian Wearing
Clemens von Wedemeyer
Joyce Weiland
Peter Weiss
Orson Welles
Rachel Whiteread
Davey Williams
David Wojnarowicz
Jordan Wolfson
The Wooster Group
Iannis Xenakis
Tadanori Yokoo
Zubi Zuva
Frans Zwartjes






The following films are presented for educational and non-commercial use only. All copyrights belong to the artists.


About UbuWeb Film & Video

UbuWeb is pleased to present hundreds of avant-garde films & videos for your viewing pleasure. However, it is important to us that you realize that what you will see is in no way comparable to the experience of seeing these gems as they were intended to be seen: in a dark room, on a large screen, with a good sound system and, most importantly, with a roomful of warm, like-minded bodies.

However, we realize that the real thing isn't very easy to get to. Most of us don't live anywhere near theatres that show this kind of fare and very few of us can afford the hefty rental fees, not to mention the cumbersome equipment, to show these films. Thankfully, there is the internet which allows you to get a whiff of these films regardless of your geographical location.

We realize that the films we are presenting are of poor quality. It's not a bad thing; in fact, the best thing that can happen is that seeing a crummy shockwave file will make you want to make a trip to New York to the Anthology Film Archives or the Lux Cinema in London (or other places around the world showing similar fare). Next best case scenario will be that you will be enticed to purchase a high quality DVD from the noble folks trying to get these works out into the world. Believe me, they're not doing it for the money.

Please support these filmmakers and their distributors by purchasing their films. Please support the presenters of these works by going to see them in theatres whenever you can. We've complied a list of places where you can see them and buy them:


Distributors:

Founded in 1962 and located in New York City, The Film-Maker's Cooperative distributes more than 5,000 films in all gauges as well as videos:
www.film-makerscoop.com

Begun in 1961 as a screening series and established as a distributor in 1967, Canyon Cinema has more than 3500 films available for rent:
www.canyoncinema.com

The Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC) has been Canada's foremost non-commercial distributor of independent film since 1967:
www.cfmdc.org

The Lux Centre in London is the largest distributor of artist film in England and their site offers information about renting and buying films, as well as preservation tips for artists:
www.lux.org.uk

Founded in 1982 and located in Paris, Light Cone offers more than 2,300 films:
www.lightcone.org

Chicago's Video Data Bank has represented one of the major collections of video art in North America since 1976:
www.vdb.org

Established in 1971, Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) represents 175 artists and offers for rent or for sale more than 3,000 works:
eai.org/eai

Re:Voir began selling high quality video copies of renowned avant-garde films in 1994 and is today the premiere international label for experimental film artists:
www.re-voir.com
www.usa.re-voir.com


Venues:

The following is a very short list of venues. For a more complete list , please consult:
http://www.hi-beam.net/org/showindex.html
Anthology Film Archives (New York City)
www.anthologyfilmarchives.org

Millennium Film Workshop (New York City)
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/

San Francisco Cinematheque
www.sfcinematheque.org

Pacific Film Archive at the Berkeley Art Museum
www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/pfa_programs/index.html

Artists' Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/

Los Angeles Film Forum
www.lafilmfourm.org

Chicago Filmmakers
www.chicagofilmmakers.org

Northwest Film Forum (Seattle)
www.nwfilmforum.org

Aurora Picture Show (Houston)
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org

Eyedrum (Atlanta)
http://www.eyedrum.org/

The Pleasure Dome (Toronto)
www.pdome.org

Image Forum (Tokyo)
http://www.imageforum.co.jp/

Nova Cinema (Brussels, Belgium)
http://www.nova-cinema.org/

Other Film Festival (Australia)
http://www.otherfilm.org


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