Experimental cinema has become fashionable thanks to the combined exertions of the media, an activist filmmaking scene, and an audience eager to seek out curiosities that fight free of cinematic categorisations.
Hence this series of programmes, concocted by Claudine Eizykman, Guy Fihman and Dominique Willoughby –as part of Cinedoc and the “Rubans Urbains” group. It is both a history of experimental cinema in its geographic spread, from city to city, in Europe, the USA then in other continents, and thus also an exploration of the cities themselves, which film led us to rediscover in ways that operate differently to those of painting and photography. These encounters with Experimental Cinema show us how the major artistic options have their parallels in the options open to society, from the very beginnings of cinema to the present day.
Claudine Eizykman

1998
Villes Vitesses - Villes Engourdies / Cities: Speeding and Drowsing
Cities Villes de bord d’eau, villes sous the vent / Cities: Water and Wind

1999
“Saint-Cinema-des-Pres”
City Zeitgeist / La ville d’une epoque
Hi-Stars. History and Stars
History and pre-histories
Experimental resurgence -the 60s
Kenneth Anger: 50s avant-garde, the American explosion
The Czech Avant-garde: 1930, Prague, 1999

2000
Italy 1910-1990
Germany in the 70s: Boom/Excess
Stephen Dwoskin Kino
Mediterranean “meditating on the sea”
Poland 1970-1990: the experimental watch-guard
Objects I
Objects II