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unusual facts about experimental filmmaker



David Hykes

Hykes was educated at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio where he studied with avant-garde experimental filmmakers Tony Conrad and Paul Sharits, free jazz with the Cecil Taylor Unit, and contemporary, classical and medieval music with John Ronsheim and David Stock.


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Azazel Jacobs

--(born January 1, 1972)--> is an American film director and screenwriter, and the son of experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs.

Houston Alternative Art

During the opening of Exhibition 10, curated by Sebastian J. Adler at the Contemporary Arts Museum, artist and experimental filmmaker Michael Snow created an elaborate piece on the advertising light grid of the Goodyear Blimp, which flew over the museum.

Mića Popović

Miodrag "Mića" Popović (23 June 1923 – 22 December 1996) was a Yugoslavian painter, experimental filmmaker and one of the major figures of the Yugoslav Black Wave.

Shulamith Firestone

The film was rediscovered in the 1990s by experimental filmmaker Elisabeth Subrin, who did a frame-for-frame reshoot of the original documentary, with Kim Soss playing Firestone.

Wallace McCutcheon, Sr.

Nevertheless, his films remain interesting despite that, and experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs paid homage to McCutcheon in his 1969 film Tom, Tom the Piper's Son which used McCutcheon's film as the basis for a fanciful, original creation.