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The article discusses key issues concerning the current of cinema dubbed as "An Avant Garde for the '80s" that was evident during the Edinburgh Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. The films screened during the festival, which are produced in vastly different circumstances, have apparently absorbed a lot of the anti-realist arguments debated in Euro-American cultural theory since 1968. The motion pictures also provide socio-historical analyses instead of a simple analysis of motion pictures as a medium.

The article presents a reprint of Paul Willemen's article, which served as an introduction to the 1980 Edinburgh Film Festival in Scotland, with particular focus on the retrospective of Joseph H. Lewis. The article traces the history of the festival and its developments through the years. The directing career of Lewis is also discussed in the article.

This short memorandum was written as a set of notes in preparation for the Third Cinema conference that Willemen organized along with Jim Pines at Edinburgh in 1986, and was used by him to make his opening speech. It has never been previously published, and remains a critical document in this effort to relocate the concept of Third Cinema beyond its Latin American origins, and within radical practices across the three worlds. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]