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Tonight, the HFA winds down its look at the Unknown Orson Welles with two hours of rough footage from some of Welles' never completed projects. While footage from The Deep makes up the bulk of tonight's program, the HFA is also screening scenes from Welles' version of Don Quixote, the dream project that received a new vitality when Terry Gilliam tried and failed to film is own version of the story, brilliantly documented in the 2002 documentary Lost in La Mancha. There's no way of knowing what to expect from tonight's program, whether the footage justifies Welles' uncompromising vision, or whether it was all folly. But it's likely tonight may be the only chance you have to find out.

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Tony Conrad, violinist and experimental filmmaker, stood prepared to electrocute a six foot strip of film Sunday evening. "Experimental filmmaking isn't like real experiments because you don't have to be careful," he told the crowd at Harvard Film Archive. "If you talk to an experimental filmmaker, ask if they know what they're doing."

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Nothing helps avant garde art go down like a good gimmick, and filmmaker Robert Fenz had a great one. Fenz screened two films Monday at the Harvard Film Archive, each accompanied by live improvisation from the renowned jazz trumpeter Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith.

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