Malcolm Le Grice, a pioneer of \"structural film\" in the 1970s and whose first video and computer works were exhibited in the late 1960s, provides a collection of his most notable essays.
"TWO FILMS BY OWEN LAND features the illustrated scripts to the films Wide Angle Saxon and On the Marriage Broker Joke, complete with detailed footnotes that untangle their elaborate web of references. Reaching far beyond the two films alluded to in the title, it also includes a new interview, annotated filmography and recent essays by the artist.
Essential Deren: Collected Writings on Film contains all of Deren\'s essays on her own films as well as more general essays on film theory, the relation of film to dance, various technical aspects of film production, the distinction between amateur and pr
The Undercut Reader is a collection of writing and visual works drawn from Undercut, the only U.K. magazine dedicated to artists\' film and video between 1980 to 1990, combined with newly commissioned articles by leading critics in the field. Undercut cri
Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions examines the variety of concerns and practices that have comprised the long history of avant-garde film. It covers the developments of experimental filmmaking since the modernist explosion in the 1920s in Europe through to the Soviet film experiments, the American Underground cinema, the French New Wave, structuralism and contemporary gallery work of the young British artists.
The book draws together writings by film-makers, theorists, critics and curators who over the past 70 years have been engaged with film not only as a form of art practice, but also as a subservice means of representing British society itself, and as a per
Devotional Cinema, reprised from filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky's lecture on religion and cinema at Princeton University, is a rare treasure of penetrating insight into the language of film. In a compelling style, somewhere between a Zen koan and a Victorian love story, Devotional Cinema makes the case for mindful viewing as a transcendent experience. In the process, Dorsky reflects upon the role of filmmaking in faith, prayer, pleasure, and the renewal of the human spirit. For Dorsky, the material nature of film illuminates a path to devotion. Devotional Cinema is a guide for makers and viewers who, like Dorsky, seek the 'elemental glory' of film." Kathleen Tyner (author of Literacy in A Digital World)
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