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Crimes of the Future
Cronenberg's return to body horror is, well, Cronenbergian
"...in those moments, like the bored yawn at one avant-garde body modifier whose work is fine for the norms,..."

June 3, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Q&A: Legendary Jazz Drummer Andrew Cyrille Speaks On Pleasing a Crowd, His Dream Collaboration, and Playing with Billy Harper
Modern Jazz Masters Play Scottish Rite Theater on Saturday
"...your years with Cecil Taylor, you’re usually considered an avant-garde musician. Do you make that kind of distinction, or..."

May 4, 2022 Music Post by Michael Toland

Finding More Eaze in the World of Experimental Pop
Austin composer Mari Maurice details her nonhierarchical obsessions
"...was working on in equal regards to more serious, avant-garde compositions. They were fine with that, and that's really..."

Feb. 11, 2022 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Uppercase Print
Subversive documentary pits a graffiti artist against autocracy
"...transcripts of Călinescu’s case, playwright Gianina Cărbunariu created the avant-garde “documentary play” Uppercase Print, which is now a “documentary..."

Jan. 21, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Fire Music
It’s definitely not trad, dad, in this history of free jazz
"...astoundingly, he makes it seem like free jazz introduced avant garde music into Europe (a jaw-dropping act of Americentrism..."

Sept. 24, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week
What we’re listening to
"...Berne's mentor Julius Hemphill. That contingent of the jazz avant-garde never forgot their blues and R&B roots, keeping their..."

June 25, 2021 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

Shiva Baby
Wry observational comedy puts the fun in funeral
"...discordant, scratchy, string-and-timpani soundtrack. It feels purloined from an avant-garde horror, and there are moments when Maria Rusche's cinematography..."

April 9, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**cker
Inside the creativity and fury of the artist provocateur
"...also made films, photos, and installations, wrote books, played avant-punk music, and created sprawling canvases chockablock with furious recurring..."

March 26, 2021 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Zappa
Two hours with the original Mother of Invention isn't enough
"...Classical avant-gardener, free rock fusionist, cold-blooded orchestrator, bandleading czar, tour nomad,..."

Nov. 27, 2020 Movie Review by Raoul Hernandez

Son of the White Mare
Gorgeous avant garde animation recounts a Hungarian myth
"...absorbed as such. At that level - as an avant garde interpretation of a folk tale - it's a..."

Aug. 21, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week
Ben Kweller hits the Continental Club stage, Threadgill's auctions some history, and more
"...men's musk commercial. – Rachel Rascoe Jim Van Buskirk / Avant Garde..."

Aug. 7, 2020 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

The Dog Doc
Charming portrait of a vet pushing the boundaries of medicine for the sake of the pups
"...mixing very standard animal care with homeopathic treatments and avant garde procedures like freezing tumors, seem to be working...."

April 17, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Midsommar
Ari Aster’s folk-horror excursion to Scandinavia never sees the forest for the trees
"...a visual feast that is akin to true contemporary avant-garde cinema, like Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle. He balances this..."

July 5, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Image Book
Godard's final experiment is more thesis and installation than film
"...his own style, and that of the plethora of avant-garde and experimental filmmakers so heavily influenced by William S...."

March 8, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Experimental Response Cinema’s Scott Stark Bids Farewell to Austin
Our interview with the filmmaker and programmer
"...embraced the latter. Co-founder of both Austin Film Society's Avant Cinema series and Experimental Response Cinema, Stark has brought..."

Feb. 1, 2019 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Free Week 2019 Is in the Rearview Mirror, but These Homegrown Standouts Aren't
10 local showcases that got us excited for what’s to come this year
"...Synchronized by matching fluffy beards, duet Deep Cross processed avant-garde industrialism, endorsed by dark Austin collective Somatic. Queasy breakdowns..."

Jan. 11, 2019 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Trumpet Colossus Kenny Dorham Towers Alongside the Jazz Gods
The Austin musician stands alone in showing up Miles Davis in his autobiography
"..."They holler, 'Freedom! Freedom! Avant-garde!' That's fine," writes Dorham in "Fragments of an Autobiography."..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Let the Corpses Tan
Deliciously lurid crime drama is pulp in all the best ways
"...in the South of France, their former sexually charged, avant-garde glories behind them. Danger looms when a gang of..."

Sept. 7, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Madeline's Madeline
"...resolution that ignores pivotal questions at the heart of avant-garde theatre about the consensual engagement of the audience...."

Aug. 31, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Live Music Recommendations for the Week
Here are a few good reasons to go out on a school night
"...oscillated wildly from dance floor and world beats to avant-garde punk, Garbus’ voice either soulful or immersed in alien..."

April 30, 2018 Music Post by The Music Staff

Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami
Cultural icon Grace Jones, caught raw and wondrous.
"...or a puzzled look in response, but her early avant-garde disco discography – “Warm Leatherette,” that sultry cover of..."

April 27, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

99 Austin Acts at SXSW Music
Support the home team!
"...Purveyors, and Crack Pipes among their ranks, these local avant-blues blusterers ride a roogalator all their own. 2016's fourth..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

I Do ... Until I Don't
Marriage (comedies) ain't easy
"...Marriage is dead, so sayeth avant documentary filmmaker Vivian (Wells) in her quest to turn..."

Sept. 1, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Double Nickelodeons on the Dime
Plenty of opportunities to catch some classic films
"...such as "Essential Cinema," "Doc Nights," "Science on Screen," "Avant Cinema," "Classical Mexican Cinema," and "Recently Restored." "Comedy Italian..."

May 26, 2017 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

10 Freaks and Geeks to Redefine Austin Music
Local passion projects with singular visions
"...the Rocky Horror Picture Show quintet of the Austin avant-garde, story has it is that Martin, Junior Scott (bassist),..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
Doc doesn't quite capture the spirit of the brilliant iconoclast
"...subversive who lobbed lyrics like Molotov cocktails, a brilliant avant-gardist whose heart belonged to Dada. If he is all..."

July 15, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Where the Girls Go/ATX: Extreme Weather Edition
Queertastic grrrl events this weekend, and every weekend.
"...yerself to Rain for an “angelic and visceral vocal-driven avant pop” performance by Lily Taylor...."

Nov. 14, 2014 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Where the Girls Go/ATX: Rabbit Rabbit Edition
The best of the best events under that big Q umbrella this weekend
"...Saturday: Get dark and dreamy tonight with Avant Glam Cabaret. Producer and choreographer Sassy Delure will transform..."

Aug. 1, 2014 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Under the Skin
Scarlett Johansson is the blank alien who prowls for earthmen in this spare and disorienting genre smash-up.
"...that point Glazer was known primarily as the go-to savant for cutting- and bleeding-edge music videos and TV adverts...."

April 18, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Endless Love
New era, same old story: young passions, forbidden love, and parents who just don't understand.
"...this was meant as a send-up or even an avant-garde reimagining...."

Feb. 14, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black

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