Avant-Doc

Over the past fifty years a unique hybrid genre of nonfiction cinema called the avant-doc has emerged in the world of independent film. Combining the unconventional techniques of avant-garde auteurs like Stan Brakhage with the verisimilitude of traditional documentaries the avant-doc expands the way cinema captures and chronicles events. Drawing on firsthand interviews with nineteen of the form''s chief practitioners and participants Avant-Doc constructs an oral history that provides the first insider''s perspective on the phenomenon.