Twice a week throughout the month of April, the Fine Arts Library will host a series of informal screenings of experimental film and video art from the UVA Library collection.

On Tuesday, April 8 in its ground-floor video niche, the Fine Arts Library will screen selections from the collection Avant-Garde 3: Experimental Cinema, 1922-1954, with works by Dudley Murphy, Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles F. Klein, Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth, James Sibley Watson, Keith Munson, Theodore Huff, Sidney Peterson, and James Broughton. This compilation from the collections of Raymond Rohauer and the George Eastman House includes works first shown in small theaters and by ad hoc film societies, in a variety of genres: early animations, experimental documentaries, film poems, spoofs, and home movies. 

Drop in and out as your schedule allows to see selections from a century of art of the moving image.

Later this month, see Here Come the Videofreex (2015), with interviews and restored tapes from the radical film collective capturing their revolutionary use of film technology in the 1960s and 1970s, two films from Brazilian-born contemporary artist and filmmaker Ana Vaz that trace hybrid histories of colonialism; and Shirin (2008), an exploration of gendered spectatorship from acclaimed Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami.