There was an exchange at one point in the interview that made me shudder and I had to read it a few times:

CAROLEE: We go to the theatre in search of inner realities because

of the bankruptcy of the myths and conventions we're used to

dealing with in everyday life.

GENE: Perhaps in the near future, the whole process of living will be

in this active seeking out of experiences

I found this pretty fascinating and I feel that this could be very true in a lot of ways within experimental cinema. Looking at the works of Belson and Brackhage, I feel there could definitely be notions of "therapy." I feel this idea is something that could be applied to all film in some form or fashion, however. I think that we are bankrupt as a culture and I think that most people are onto that whether they're completely conscious of it or not and I feel that in bringing expanded cinema to its greatest heights, we, as artists should expand on these psychoanalysis and political principles and use it as a force to be reckoned with throughout society.

Also a bit off topic but I think these two bands do a pretty wicked job of intermedia musical performance:

Godspeed! You Black Emperor has a person running several 16mm projectors while the band performs, overlaying and moving around and switching roles of film, its really quite a performance in an of itself.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7xbADHyv8k

The Residents also do a lot of really cool, bizarre performance, projections, intermedia, music, music videos, etc. that folks should check out.