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June 25, 2005
Avant and avast: is LA more indie than NY?
The Guardian's John Patterson argues the case for Los Angeles being more "indie" than NYC: "I come fresh from reading David E James' majestic new book, 'The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles,' which upsets many previously held notions of the primacy of [Manhattan's] East Village as ground zero for radical film-making, and establishes LA - home of Machine Hollywood, satanic TV production, and the San Fernando flesh-factories - as a major and pioneering locale for dissident film-making of every stripe. James, a professor at USC... [makes the case] —what he refers to as his "extravagant claims", though they are anything but... that LA may even have the edge on Manhattan in terms of iconoclastic cinema." There's more from Patterson at the link, including comparisons to Thom Andersen's magnificent, masterful essay, Los Angeles Plays Itself.
Posted by at June 25, 2005 03:28 PM
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