Process cinema : handmade film in the digital age / edited by Scott MacKenzie and Janine Marchessault.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

MacKenzie, Scott, 1967- editor.

Marchessault, Janine, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture film.

Cinematography--Processing.

Cinematography.

Motion picture film--Splicing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (569 pages)

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2019]

Summary:

"Handmade films stretch back to cinema's beginnings, yet until now their rich history has been neglected. Process Cinema is the first book to trace the development of handmade and hand-processed film in its historical and contemporary contexts, and from a global perspective. Mapping the genealogy of handmade film, and uncovering confluences, influences, and interstices between various international movements, sites, and practices, Process Cinema positions the resurgence of handmade and process cinema as a counter-practice to the rise of digital filmmaking. This volume brings together a range of renowned academics and artists to examine contemporary artisanal films, DIY labs, and filmmakers typically left out of the avant-garde canon, addressing the convergence between the analog and the digital in contemporary process cinema. Contributors investigate the history of process cinema - unscripted, improvisatory manipulation of the physicality of film - with chapters on pioneering filmmakers such as Len Lye and Marie Menken, while others discuss an international array of collectives devoted to processing films in artist-run labs from South Korea to Finland, Australia to Austria, and Greenland to Morocco, along with historical and contemporary practices in Canada and the United States. Addressing the turn to a new, sustainable creative ecology that is central to handmade films in the twenty-first century, and one that defines today's reinvigorated film cultures, Process Cinema features some of the most beautiful handcrafted films and the most forward-thinking filmmakers within a global context."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Process Cinema: Handmade Film in the Digital Age

Histories of Handmade Film

Twenty-Four Signatures per Second: Direct Animation and Gestural Repetition

At the Limits of Cinema: Marie Menken’s Notebook

Artisanal Filmmaking in Australia

Process as Practice

Self-Skilling and Home-Brewing: Some Reflections on Photochemical Film Culture

After: A Beginner’s Guide to Alchemy

How and Why: A Few Notes Concerning Production Techniques Employed in the Making of My Darkroom Films

Peter Tscherkassky Manufractures Two Minutes of (Im)Pure Cinema

Echoes of the Earth: Handmade Film Ecologies

Signs of the Three: Process and Composition in Works by Bruce Elder, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, and Blake Williams

Notes on the Materiality of Language in Synthetic Sound Film

Labs and Collectives

The Artist-Run Film Labs

Toward Artisanal Cinema: A Filmmakers’ Movement

Impalpable Boundary, Invisible Common: From Ciné-Clubs to Artist-Run Film Labs in Korea

A Collective Charge: Collectif double négatif/ Double Negative Collective

A Short Overview of the Production and Distribution of Alternative Filmmaking in France

Letter to Frédérique Devaux concerning Isou’s Traité de bave et d’éternité

Experimental? It’s Not My “Type”!

A Dangerous Encounter: Lab Laba-Laba and the New Order’s Archive of Authoritarianism

Pedagogies

The Materiality of Abstract Animation: The Discovery and Analysis of an Unreleased Film by Gordon Webber

“Sight Unseen”: The Ethos of Handmade Films

Your Film Farm Manifesto of Process Cinema

Chemistry Class: Jeffrey Paull, the Escarpment School, and the Legacy of Process Cinema at Sheridan College

The Sound We See: Growing a Global Slow Film Movement

A Travelogue in Two Parts: Hand Processing in the Sahara and Finding no.w.here

Counter Cinemas

Some Recipes for Disaster in the Films of Deirdre Logue and Helen Hill

The Immediate Sensuous:

Tearing Up the Screen:

Projection as Performance: Recent Directions in Canadian Expanded Cinema

Digital Interfaces

Practice, Interface, and Outcome:

Dismantling the Cinema: Restraining Presentness with Locative Media and Experimental Architecture

Writing the World: Medium Specificity and Avant-Garde Film in the Digital Age

Hardware Hacking, Software Modding, and File Manipulation: Process Cinema in the Digital Age

Illustrations

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7735-5810-1

OCLC:

1376368758