Black Screens, White Frames offers a new understanding of cinematic blankness. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy, Tanya Shilina-Conte provides a detailed examination of non-images throughout film history. In different arts, including cinema, absence has often been understood in a negative way—as a lack or lacuna, a vacuum or void. To remedy this, Shilina-Conte advances the concept of the filmmaking machine as an abstract art machine in constant production, which shifts our understanding of absence in cinema from negative to generative theorization.

An analysis of artistic processes and filmic forms resulting from hybridization with dance. An exploration of a different history of experimental cine-choreographic forms, in which movement inspired by or aspiring to dance takes shape in the material of the film itself, rather than in the physical bodies displayed on screen.

Artist Bill Brand has long been recognized both as a filmmaker and as the world's leading authority on the preservation of historically important experimental films. His extensive drawing and painting studio practice has been less known, until now. 

Experimental Cinema examines a range of structures, systems and strategies that film and video artists have developed from the late 1960s to the present. Over the decades, artists have responded to the ever-changing medium of cinema and its technological advances, as well as taking inspiration from painting, sculpture and music.