Based on an avant-garde wartime play, The Lost People was scripted by the pioneering filmmaker Muriel Box (who also directed some sequences) and presents an unusual depiction of the turmoil of ...

“All the wealth that nurtures it seems only to increase its aura of power and mystique, and hence its distance from us,” Mr. Falconer writes in “How to Be Avant-Garde,” a group biography ...

By Colin Moynihan For 70 years Jonas Mekas, widely seen as the godfather of American avant-garde film, created nearly daily visual documents that showed elements of his life. He called them ...