The current issue of Senses of Cinema has an interview with lots of information of historical interest on the New American Cinema and Jonas Mekas' involvement with experimental film.
While an MA program [.pdf] focusing on experimental film may sound like a good idea, I don't think that it necessarily is: the description claims "students will produce two or three major pieces of experimental film work." This is absurd for an academic program to demand, since such films rarely (if ever) are a product of an academic approach. After all, academic approaches are necessarily conservative, based on maintaining and transfering established forms and traditions--something antithetical to the whole concept of experimentation. But this is what I would expect of any school that lumps together art and fashion.
Year is a 20 minute long silent piece built around people's
birthdays, one per month for a year. A short piece about it is being published
in Leonardo, Vol. 38, No. 2 (April 2005).
