Just recently finished up nearly a full week at the 7th FLEX, Florida Experimental Film Festival, in Gainesville, FL. Roger Beebe is the founder/curator, and a longtime figure at various experimental fests-- including several times at Bearded Child, which toured to Gainesville several years back.
I’ve worried that ultra-alternative American cinema may be slipping for venues-- with note-worthies like MicroCineFest, PDX, CINEMATEXAS, HiMom!, Thaw in Iowa City and others disappearing or taking leaves in recent years. Thankfully, FLEX has been there to pick up the slack during these turbulent times, along with TIE, Experiments in Cinema and now newcomers like Strange Beauty. Roger strongly hints that his rein of terror may be coming to the end, but hopefully the vision will continue, as we NEED venues such as these for the sake of our fleeting intellectual underground culture.
As I can, I’ll post a few notes on the event, held Feb. 17-20, 2011.
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