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.

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.

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.

Der österreichischen Filmavantgarde gelang es immer wieder,
internationale Reputation zu erlangen. In den 80er und 90er Jahren
konnte vor allem Dietmar Brehm eine Vielzahl an nationalen und
internationalen Preisen erlangen. Laut Peter Tscherkassky sind seine
Filme das Ergebnis eines Arbeitsprozesses, in dem das Bildmaterial so
lange der Bearbeitung ausgesetzt wird, bis es seine größte Verdichtung
erreicht hat. Dieses Buch geht von Interviews mit dem Künstler aus, die
die Entstehungsgeschichte der Filme erhellen, es untersucht in