FILMWORKS '80: A Three-Evening Festival of Recent Independent Films

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David Haxton, Landscape and Room, 1978. 10 min., Color, Silent.

 

FILMWORKS was a series conceived in 1978 by curator Leonardo Katz with the purpose of showing films by both established and emerging filmmakers and drawing attention to avant-garde American cinema. The 1980 edition of the festival featured artists such as Bruce Conner, David Haxton, Yvonne Rainer, and Anita Thatcher.

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