Oskar Fischinger (1900-1967) embodied the modernist ideal of the maladaptive artist so well that a balanced evaluation of his work as filmmaker and painter depends on one’s ability to withhold automatic beatification based solely on his biography. Born and educated in Germany, exiled to Los Angeles

Abstract painting, Abstraction, Avant-garde film, Geometric, Polychromatic

Francis Alys, who trained as an architect and has been based in Mexico City for almost two decades, has worked in film, sculpture, and performance since the early 1990s. Performances such as Paradox of Praxis, 1997, for which he pushed a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City until it melted

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Barbara Rubin, the great doyenne of the new york underground film scene of the 60s, friend of Andy Warhol and the Velvet Undergroud, co-conspirator and friend of Jonas Mekas was famous for her involvement in the Velvet Underground "up-tight" performance at the New York Psychoanalytic Society. Her cl

Erotic, New york underground, Pioneering, Playful, Witty

Amos Vogel is the founder of the New York Film Festival and New York's experimental cinema club "Cinema 16" where films by John Cassavetes, Bruce Connor, Stan Brakhage, Kenneth Anger and Roman Polanski were shown in New York for the first time. His classic book, "Film as a Subversive Art" is filled

Experimental, New york underground, Pioneering, Rebel, Urban