The Seventies were the last golden age of Hollywood when the most artistic, auteur filmmakers ruled Hollywood and took Hollywood to another level.  They drew from auteurs from the past, like Orson Welles and Stanley Kubrick by staying true to themselves as artists in a difficult, controlling Hollywood studio machine.  They were their heroes and inspirations.  During this time, they were also influenced by experimental cinema and its iconic filmmakers like Maya Daran, Stan Brakhage, Bruce Connor, Kenneth Anger, and George Kuchar.  Experimental Cinema had nothing to do with Hollywood, they used the nuts and bolts of filmmaking to understand film as a fine art form with a different canvas, especially its bending and deconstruction of time and space.  Hollywood watched, listened, learned, then applied.  Experimental filmmakers also took Hollywood cinema and made it their own. This webinar will delve into the influence of legendary experimental filmmakers on auteur Hollywood filmmakers and vice versa. I will show the Hollywood experimental film-esque film Brian De Palma’s Phantom of Paradise, and experimental Hollywood-esque film George Kuchar’s Club Vatican.