FILM CULTURE INDEX

FILM CULTURE INDEX

by Adeline Coffinier et Victor Gresard

Film Culture magazine, founded in 1955 by Jonas and Adolfas Mekas is an essential resource and document, measuring the pulse of the American avant-garde film from January 1955 to Winter 1996.

The publication contains several indexes: an index of authors, a subject index, an index of film titles and an index of illustrations, as well as a complete table of contents.

The research tool proposed here is preceded by two rare documents. The first is the transcription of a discussion at Columbia University in 2001 between Jonas Mekas, J. Hoberman, Andrew Sarris and P. Adams Sitney. The second is a reprint of the Editorial from # 14, November 1957, in which Jonas Mekas, editor of the journal, calls for the renewal of an experimental cinema in America.