GME's FluxFilm Anthology Is a Perfect Companion to the Forthcoming "Happenings" Program at the Film-Makers' Cooperative

Tonight, January 29th, at 7pm, the Film-Makers’ Cooperative will show four films about “Happenings” in a program aptly titled WHAT’S HAPPENING?. A perfect companion to this program is the 17-film boxset FLUXFILM ANTHOLOGY, which GME distributes to the North American university market as both a DSL file and DVD.

The connection between “Happenings” and the Fluxus movement is delineated in an essay by writer, filmmaker, and scholar Maeva Aubert, which accompanies the DVD release of FLUXFILM ANTHOLOGY and is excerpted here:

The direct, physical relationship with the audience became, for Fluxus, the end result of a search for something between 'art and life;' the Happening, initiated by Allan Kaprow, became the most representative expression of this idea. As celebrations of the present moment among friends, improvised on little or no budgets and in various places (streets, galleries, apartments, construction sites, theatres, etc.), site-specific and time-oriented, the Happenings could by definition never be reproduced. In a strong relationship to the present moment, the art appears ephemeral and free. It becomes an assertion of life.

FLUXFILM ANTHOLOGY includes work by such esteemed artists as Yoko Ono, Paul Sharits, John Cale, George Maciunas, Nam June Park, and George Landon,.

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