Format VOD
Original format HD
Year 2011
Language(s) English, French
Artist(s) Pip Chodorov
Subtitles French, Czech, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Lithuanian, Serbian
Running time 82 min
Films
FREE RADICALS - A HISTORY OF EXPERIMENTAL FILM (2010) 82'
Description
"Here is a film that shines first and foremost through its casting: Hans Richter, Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage, Jonas Mekas, Maurice Lemaitre and other "star" filmmakers of experimental cinema (especially American, up to the 1970s) parade here in majesty—without false modesty (their frankness and boldness are on the contrary astonishing, sometimes funny) but with the manifest pleasure of being in turn recorded and projected, heard."
— Les Cahiers du cinéma
"Touching and personal, this documentary will serve as a guide for all those tempted by the desire to dive into this era, extending its approach. The 'free radicals' to which the title refers are those artists who, in the 1920s and then in the 1970s, pushed cinema toward experimental visual poetry. [...] It pays a beautiful tribute to this fringe of cinema too often reduced to a hermetic citadel when it is rather a space open to all winds, where chance, tinkering, and humor have often played a major role."
— Le Monde