An Avant Garde Christmas Program

Holiday season at the Postal Service (my day job) has meant I’ve had little time to watch films and write. I’ll have some other posts up soon, but in the meantime here’s a short list of ten Christmas-relevant avant garde films. Sometime this weekend I’ll upload files for most of these and link them here to make them more convenient to find and watch.

• Christmas U.S.A. (Gregory Markopoulos, 1949)

• Angel (Joseph Cornell, 1957)

• 9/64 O Tannenbaum (Kurt Kren, 1964)

• Lights (Marie Menken, 1966)

• Presents (Michael Snow, 1981)

• Five Year Diary Reel 3: Christmas 1981 New Year 1982 (Anne Charlotte Robertson, 1982)

• Christ Mass Sex Dance (Stan Brakhage, 1991)

• Happy-End (Peter Tscherkassky, 1997)

• Sarabande (Nathaniel Dorsky, 2008)

• Glistening Thrills (Jodie Mack, 2013)