We read in Masters of Cinema about this not-too-widely spread piece of news: the National Film Preservation Foundation announced last December that they were working on the fourth installment in their essential Treasures from American Film Archives series, this time completely devoted to american postwar avant-garde films. From the original notice:

 

"Treasures IV: The American Avant-Garde Film, 1945-1985 will showcase films preserved by the nation's preeminent avant-garde film repositories—the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Anthology Film Archives, the Museum of
Modern Art, the New York Public Library, and the Pacific Film Archive—and will
illustrate the diverse currents in avant-garde filmmaking during the four
decades following World War II."

This production has grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Treasures IV will be a 2 DVD disc set and will be released in fall 2008. It looks that it will be a perfect complement to last year's Unseen Cinema.