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  • Hollis Frampton (October Files 27)

    The first collection of critical writing on the work of experimental filmmaker Hollis Frampton. Hollis Frampton (1936–1984) was one of the most important experimental filmmakers and theorists of his time, and in his navigation of artistic media and discourses, he anticipated the multimedia boundary blurring of today’s visual culture. Indeed, his photography continues to be exhibited, and a digital edition of his films was issued by the Criterion Collection. This book offers the first collection of critical writings on Frampton’s work.

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    29,95 USD

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  • Neil Henderson - Three Studies in Geography

    Three distinct locations are brought together in this film Three Studies in Geography (2011), which encompasses three previously separate films made over the last ten years. Each location presents a particular balance of land, sky and water. The first par

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  • Vivian Ostrovsky - Plunge

    DVD gathering 16 films by Vivian Ostrovsky made between 1982 and 2014.

    "An intimate – yet humorous – act of cultural resistance, the cinema of Vivian Ostrovsky is a gesture, implying the filmmaker’s entire body – as she travels around the world, carrying the gear, framing with a camera-eye. She digs in archival footage for an immense repertory of cinematic gestures performed by others – and playfully edits them with her own Super-8 shots. Multi-culturalism and polyglotism are woven into this poetics of displacement."

    - Bérénice Reynaud

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    22,90 EUR

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  • A History of 1970s Experimental Film: Britain's Decade of Diversity

    This comprehensive historical account demonstrates the rich diversity in 1970s British experimental filmmaking. It acts as a form of reclamation by integrating films having received inadequate historical and critical recognition and placing these alongside films existing as accepted texts of the decade. This history challenges the problematic 'return to image' thesis, providing examples of written evidence and demonstrating how this has problematically perpetuated a flawed account of the decade. This is the first extensive overview of 1970s filmmaking, contextualizing films within broader aesthetic, theoretical and socio-political frameworks. The detailed textual and comparative analyses offer unique approaches to individual films, shedding light on technical, aesthetic and economic decisions informing filmmaking. As such, it provides a unique understanding of how experimental filmmaking grew from a small handful of films and filmmakers, at the start of the 1970s, to a veritable 'explosion' in filmmaking by the end of the decade.

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    60 GBP

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  • Experimental Cinema, The Film Reader

    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.

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  • 3 Journeys to Lithuania

    DVD with 3 films by Jonas Mekas, Adolfas Mekas and Pola Chapelle and a bonus film by Anne Maregiano

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    Average: 3.7 (3 votes)

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    22,90 EUR

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  • Germaine Dulac - Écrits sur le cinéma (1919-1937)

    Pionnière du cinéma, Germaine Dulac (1882-1942) est une des grandes figures de l'Avant-Garde française des Années 20. Personnalité importante, elle initiera et sera à la tête de nombreuses organisations et, parallèlement, mènera une activité inlassable pour la défense des droits des femmes. 

    Dans ses réalisations, Dulac expérimente les nouvelles possibilités d'expression du cinéma. Elle réalisera une vingtaine de films à partir de 1916. La Souriante Mme Beudet (1923) et La Coquille et le clergyman (1927), d'après Antonin Artaud, sont parmi ses films marquants. 

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    9,99 EUR

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  • James Benning - casting a glance & RR

    In casting a glance one artist pays tribute to another as James Benning offers his filmic paean to Robert Smithson's legendary "earthwork" sculpture, the Spiral Jetty. With RR, his homage to the American railroad, the filmmaker brings an era to its close by going back to cinema's roots. Shot back-to-back over a period of two years, these works marked James Benning's farewell to analogue filmmaking and together constitute the profound "last words" on the film medium by one of its most singular innovators. This 2-disc set presents both films together with rare audio interviews in which Benning recounts the experience of making his "last" films and gives unique insight into his creative methods.

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    29,29 EUR

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  • Tony Conrad & Marie Losier - The Flicker & Dreaminimalist

    The Flicker sweeps away reality, transports us into another environment and acts as a sort of instrument of perceptual experimentation. The filmmaker himself considers it as a kind of science fiction film which, instead of entering us into strange worlds – which have everything to do with this world and the development of conventional narrative structures –, proposes to transport us into a totally different dimension which is abstract and structured in a manner radically different from our environment.

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    25 EUR

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  • Plus Documents 2009-2013

    A booklet + DVD edition documenting the Japanese screening project + (Plus). With works by Takashi Makino and Takashi Ishida, Shinkan Tamaki, Rei Hayama & Ben Russell

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    Average: 3.7 (3 votes)

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    2700 JPY

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