From The International School of Film and TV (CUBA)

[Dean Luis Reyes]

Dear friends:
                     We feel proud announcing that we have published a 
new issue of our digital magazine Miradas (www.miradas.eictv.co.cu). The 
new issue is dedicated to avant-garde and experimental cinema. Articles 
and essays are available only in Spanish. The Index of topics is in the 
following way: 
 
- A brief poll on experimental and avant-garde cinema answered by 
Alexandr Sokurov, George Landow, Greg Roach, Ermanno Di Biagi, Claudio 
Caldini, Carolina Rivas, Dominic Angerame, Sandy Lieberson, Thorsten 
Fleisch and Jay Blanchard. 
   
-Essays:  
- Brief history of the Japanese experimental cinema, by Takashi Nakajima 
- The melancholy of the resistance: the cinema of B?la Tarr, by Peter 
Hames 
- The end of the history, by Julio Garc?a Espinosa 
- Inserts and counter-memories of the underdevelopment, by Gabriela 
Rangel M. 
- Hypercinema: experience of cinematic de-construction, by Jane of 
Almeida 
- Some problems of the experimental cinema, by Colas Ricard 
- The Parallel Cinema is an own name in Russia, by Olga Lialina 
- Some few questions about the Argentinean experimental cinema, by 
Silvestre Byron and others 
- Experimentalism in the Brazilian cinema, by Jo?o Carlos Rodr?gues 
- Electronic Videoart in Peru, by Jos? Carlos Mari?tegui 
- Video-art: some notes for a history and a definition of the genre, by 
Marialina Garc?a and Meyken Barreto 
- Narrative of North American independent cinema: a brief panorama, by 
Gary Morris 
- Counting the waves: A summary of the activity in the Austrian 
independent cinema, by Mark Webber 
- About the tactical means: selection of fragments, by Geert Lovink 
- Avant-garde as software: selection of fragments, by Lev Manovich
- On Tarantino, dogs and Madonna, by Dayamick Cisneros
- Darren Aronofsky: Between chaos theory and the phamtoms of drug, by 
Jos? Ren? Roig.
  
PERSONAL POETICS: 
   
- Nostalgia for the future: the poetic of the digital fragmentation, by 
Aryan Kaganof 
- Ephemeral cinema, by Bradley Eros 
- Metaphors on the vision, by Stan Brakhage 
- Multimedia like theater, by Michael Buckley 
    
Avant-garde filmmakers: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Alexander Kluge, Fernando 
Birri, Derek Jarman, Ritwik Ghatak, Glauber Rocha, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-
Marie Straub, Dusan Makavejev, Djibril Diop Mambety, Nicol?s Guill?n 
Landri?n, Serguei Paradzhanov, Peter Greenaway, Ra?l Ruiz, Fernando 
Solanas, Su Friedrich, Hans-J?rgen Syberberg, Trin T. Minh-ha, Jan 
Svankmajer, Nick Zedd.  
   
 
ARTICLES: 
   
- Sex in the Asian cinema, by Toh Hai Leong 
- Do it yourself: independent cinema in Malaysia, by Khoo Gaik Cheng 
- Central Asia: redefining their cultural roots, by G?n?l D?nmez-Colin 
- Albania: How to make a film in a country without film industry, by 
Andrew James Horton 

INTERVIEWS:

- Noel B?rch: ?For me, the great one theoretical of the postmodern is 
Godard? 
- Jean-Pierre Gorin: ?The friend of Glauber Rocha (and Godard)?
- Ricardo de Angelis: ?Underpinning ilusions?
- Roger Corman: ?Talking with dinosaurs?

And many other sections and articles. Please, could you post this message 
in your list?

V?ctor Fowler Calzada
International School of Cinema and Television (EICTV)
San Antonio de Los Ba?os
Cuba

publicaciones at eictv.org.cu