MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (1929)

An object lesson in how “mainstream” art slowly eats what was once “avant-garde.”

I once watched an episode of CSI with a sequence of William Petersen slowly washing down a bloody autopsy table with Sigur Ros’ “Svefn-g-englar” playing over the top of it, and thinking that just twenty years earlier it would have been a short art film.