Introduction by Mike Hoolboom
The godmother of German experimental film is dead. Birgit Hein died at the age of 80, peacefully, while sleeping.

Film is the art form of our times. It has formed the background of our lives, informed visual arts practices, and formed our culture’s stories, its memory.

Moments of Perception is a landmark book. The first history of twentieth and early-twenty-first-century Canadian experimental filmmaking, it maps avant-garde films from the 1950s to the present day, including their contradictions and complexities.