After the avant-garde : contemporary German and Austrian experimental film / edited by Randall Halle and Reinhild Steingröver.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Halle, Randall.

Steingröver, Reinhild.

Series:

Screen cultures

Screen cultures : German film and the visual

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental films--Germany--History and criticism.

Experimental films.

Germany.

Physical Description:

x, 361 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2008.

Summary:

Filmmaking in Germany and Austria has changed dramatically in the last decades with digitalization and the use of video and the Internet. Yet despite predictions of a negative effect on experimental film, the German and Austrian filmscape is filled with dynamic new experiments, as new technological possibilities push a break with the past, encouraging artists to find new forms. This volume of theoretically engaged essays explores this new landscape, introducing the work of established and emerging filmmakers, offering assessments of the intent and effect of their productions, and describing overall trends. It also explores the relationship of today's artists to the historical avant-garde, revealing a vibrant form of artistic engagement that has a history but has certainly not ended.

Contents:

Contexts

1 The Future of "Art" and "Work" in the Age of Vision Machines: Harun Farocki / Thomas Elsaesser 31

2 The Embodied Film: Austrian Contributions to Experimental Cinema / Bernadette Wegenstein 50

3 Interview with Filmmaker Birgit Hein / Randall Halle, Reinhild Steingrover 69

4 Videorebels: Actions and Interventions of the German Video-Avant-Garde / Annette Jael Lehmann 80

5 Media in the Interim: Independent Film in East Germany before and after 1989 / Claus Loser 95

6 Blackbox GDR: DEFA's Untimely Avant-Garde / Reinhild Steingrover 109

7 In Your Face: Activism, Agit-Prop, and the Autonomy of Migration; The Case of Kanak Attak / Nanna Heidenreich, Vojin Sasa Vukadinovic 131

8 Rapidly Expanding Cinema: On Border Rescue and the Tendentiousness of Interventionist Art / Randall Halle 157

9 The Post-Pop Hauntings of Bjorn Melhus / Alice A. Kuzniar 181

10 Schlingensief's Peep-Show: Post-Cinematic Spectacles and the Public Space of History / Richard Langston 204

11 From the Diary to the Webcam: Michael Brynntrup and the Medial Self / Robin Curtis 225

12 QWERTY Cinema: Christoph Girardet/Matthias Muller's / Phoenix Tapes, Rembert Huser 245

13 Kirsten Winter: From Avant-Garde to Second Modernity / Larson Powell 269

14 The Representation of Space in the Films of Heinz Emigholz / Owen Lyons 289

15 Shocking the Audience, Shocking the Artist: Aesthetic Affinities to the Avant-Garde in Elke Krystufek's Work / Christina Schmid 307.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-341) and index.

Includes filmography: pages [343]-348.

ISBN:

9781571133656

1571133658

OCLC:

209770092