UBU WEB WoW

By Mark Kaufman
Happened upon UbuWeb today. A marvelous repository of Avant Garde film, sound cuts, art, poems, typography, manifestos and more. According to the fine folks there UbuWeb is a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts. From my perspective this is what the internets was made for. Hundreds of fascinating films from the likes of Bunuel, Kuchar, Jean Genet, Stan Brackage, Man Ray, Fernand Leger . . . The list  boggles. You can have YouTube. I haven’t even scratched the surface of the UbuWeb offerings, but I am going to be wasting a great deal of time checking out the art and sound they have on offer. And it’s all FREE! MAny of these pieces are out of print,  I may have heard of many of the artists, read about them, I have seen still images and brief clips, so for me this is a treasure trove of things I NEED to explore. The artists, filmmakers, composers and writers listed cover the entire 20th century of the avant garde around the world right up to the here and now. Not everyone’s cup of tea, but I am very excited about it.