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The Twelfth Annual Views from the Avant-Garde A Special Showcase of the 46th New York Film Festival October 3 - 5, 2008 Curated by Mark McElhatten and Gavin Smith. “Views from the Avant-Garde, has become, for aficionados of experimental cinema, a tradition in its own right...There is brilliantly challenging new work of course – in particular in shorts gathered under the rubrics Time of the Signs and still wave – but an elegiac tone predominates....[Bruce Conner's work is] a reminder that the boundaries among collapse, sculpture, cinema and poetry are fungible and porous, and also that this country has occasionally produced artists whose imaginations defy limitation and convention with startling ease....[In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni is] an exclusive but nonetheless heartfelt memoir of lost aesthetic passion and political commitment...[RR is] a study in cinematic geometry that also evokes the mythology and history of the American continent. Occasionally, under the clacking of the wheels and the roar of engines, you hear what must be a car radio, and what you hear – a famous speech by Dwight D. Eisenhower, a Woody Guthrie song, a baseball game – strenghens the sentimental tug of what you see. Which is one magnificent, old, perhaps obsolescent technology – film – paying tribute to another.” - A.O. Scott, The New York Times Since 1992, the October programs at the Walter Reade Theater have coincided with our New York Film Festival, and one festival program virtually synonymous with the Walter Reade is the annual Views from the Avant-Garde, a two-day feast of new (and sometimes older) works pushing the boundaries and challenging the definition of what we know as cinema. Curated by Mark McElhatten and Gavin Smith, this year’s edition will unveil new work by James Benning, Nathaniel Dorsky, Craig Baldwin and Leslie Thornton, among many others, along with a tribute to the late avant-garde pioneer Bruce Conner. A very special event will be the premiere of a newly restored version of French Situationist and provocateur extraordinaire Guy Debord’s legendary 1978 masterpiece In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni, a passionate attack against our increasingly media-driven society. Go to Program Overview for a listing of the individual works as well as descriptions and images. Views from the Avant-Garde will take place in the Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center, 65th Street between Broadway & Amsterdam Avenue on the upper level. Admission: $11 Adult; $8 Senior (62+);$7 FS Member & Student (with valid photo ID) ~ except where otherwise noted. Browse the daily calendar to purchase tickets online. Tickets are also on sale at the Walter Reade Theater's box office. .