Experimental film and video : an anthology / edited by Jackie Hatfield ; picture editor, Stephen Littman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hatfield, Jackie, editor.

Littman, Stephen, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental films--History and criticism.

Experimental films.

Video art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 283 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Bernet, Herts, [England] : John Libbey Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The past 40 years of technological innovation have significantly altered the materials of production and revolutionized the possibilities for experiment and exhibition. Not since the invention of film has there been such a critical period of major change in the imaging technologies accessible to artists. Bringing together key artists in film, video, and digital media, the anthology of Experimental Film and Video revisits the divergent philosophical and critical discourses of the 1970's and repositions these debates relative to contemporary practice. Forty artists have contributed images, and 25

Contents:

Section I Philosophies and Critical Histories of Avant-Garde Film and Current Practice 1

Chapter 1 Post Future Past Perfect / Grahame Weinbren 3

Chapter 2 Matter's Time Time For Material / Peter Gidal 18

Chapter 3 Films and Installations

A Systems View of Nature / Chris Welsby 26

Chapter 4 A Line Through My Work / Nicky Hamlyn 36

Chapter 5 A Few Notes on Filmmaking / Jayne Parker 47

Chapter 6 Film Noise Aesthetics / Rob Gawthrop 53

Chapter 7 Line Describing a Cone and Related Films / Anthony McCall 61

Section II Languages of Representation in Film and Video: Thresholds of Materiality 75

Chapter 8 Trilogical Distractions / Lis Rhodes 77

Chapter 9 The 'autoethnographic' in Chantal Akerman's News from Home, and an Analysis of Almost Out and Stages of Mourning / Sarah Pucill 83

Chapter 10 Film, The Body, The Fold An Interview with Nina Danino on Now I Am Yours / Nina Danino, Susanna Poole 93

Chapter 11 Attitudes 1-8 / Katherine Meynell 102

Chapter 12 Video Works 1973-1983 / David Critchley 107

Chapter 13 Early Video Tapes 1978-1987 / Chris Meigh-Andrews 113

Chapter 14 Andrew Kotting. What he does, how he does it and the context in which it has been done: An Alphabetarium of Kotting / Gareth Evans, Andrew Kotting 126

Chapter 15 Ardent for Some Desperate Glory: Revisiting Smothering Dreams / Daniel Reeves 137

Chapter 16 War Stories, or Why I Make Videos About Old Soldiers / Cate Elwes 151

Chapter 17 Moving Parts: The Divergence of Practice / Vicky Smith 163

Section III Philosophies and Critical Histories of Video Art to Cinema 169

Chapter 18 Mutation on a Form / Karen Mirza, Brad Butler 171

Chapter 19 Video: Incorporeal, Incorporated / Stephen Partridge 180

Chapter 20 Tamara Krikorian

Defending the Frontier / Cate Elwes 190

Chapter 21 Another Place

David Hall / Jackie Hatfield 200

Chapter 22 Alchemy and the Digital Imaginary / David Larcher, interviewed by Stephen Littman 212

Chapter 23 Reflections on My Practice and Media Specificity / Malcolm Le Grice 220

Chapter 24 Expanded Cinema

Proto, Post-Photo / Jackie Hatfield 237

Chapter 25 Image Con Text (1978-2003): Film/Performance/Video/Digital / Mike Leggett 246

Section IV Images 263.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780861969067

0861969065

OCLC:

607716657