Experimental Cinema, The Film Reader brings together key writings on American avant-garde cinema to explore the long tradition of underground filmmaking from its origins in the 1920s to the work of contemporary film and video artists.
"Taka iimura has been making films since the
early 1960s. His work has gone through a series of relatively clear,
consistent developments: from 1962 to 1968, iimura was largely involved
with surreal imagery, with eroticism, and with social criticism; from
1968 through 1971, he continued to use photographic imagery, but worked
with it in increasingly formal ways; from 1972 until 1978, he devoted
himself very largely to a series of minimalist explorations of time and
The Cinema of Prayoga presents the rich and unseen world of artists\' film from India. Prayoga is a Sanskrit word, which loosely translates as \'experiment\', but can also mean \'representation\'. Over the last three years, no.w.here has reseached a rich
Women’s Experimental Cinema provides lively introductions to the work of fifteen avant-garde women filmmakers, some of whom worked as early as the 1950s and many of whom are still working today. In each essay in this collection, a leading film scholar considers a single filmmaker, supplying biographical information, analyzing various influences on her work, examining the development of her corpus, and interpreting a significant number of individual films.
Cinema 16: Documents Toward a History of the Film Society is the first book on Cinema 16. Scott MacDonald provides a sense of the life and work of the society, using the complete Cinema 16 program announcements, selected letters between Vogel and the film
Acting as a corrective to the skewed avant-garde history that neglects women, Women and Experimental Filmmaking gathers essays by some of the top scholars in cinema studies dealing with women experimental filmmakers.
The publication offers a comprehensive overview on historical as well as current tendencies in Video Art, including the early beginnings in film and television and featuring fifty-nine individual art works produced in Germany.
James Benning’s films are among the most fascinating work in American cinema. He explores the relationship between image, text and sound while paying expansive attention to the "vernacular landscapes" of American life. This volume traces Benning’s artistic career as well as his biographical journey through the United States, from Wisconsin to the East Coast to Southern California.
The films by Austrian artist Dietmar Brehm, born in 1947 and trained as a painter, are significant cornerstones in the recent history of experimental and found-footage cinema. His work has been admired by artists as diverse as Andrei Tarkovsky or Stan Bra
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