Difference between revisions of "Experimental film"

From Monoskop
Jump to navigation Jump to search
 
(13 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown)
Line 76: Line 76:
  
 
* David Schwartz (ed.), ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=5857 Independent America: New Film 1978-1988]'', New York: American Museum of the Moving Image, 1988, 93 pp. {{en}}
 
* David Schwartz (ed.), ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=5857 Independent America: New Film 1978-1988]'', New York: American Museum of the Moving Image, 1988, 93 pp. {{en}}
 +
 +
* ''Środek Europy. Awangardowe kino i sztuka video z Austrii, Czecho-Słowacji, Polski i Węgier'', ed. [[Ryszard W. Kluszczynski]], Warsaw: Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, 1991, 80 pp. Exh. cat. Texts: Ryszard W. Kluszczyński, Peter Tscherkassky, Gerda Lampalzer, Jozef Macko, Miklós Peternák. Exh. held at CSW Warsaw, 15-21 Apr 1991. [https://mediateka.u-jazdowski.pl/zasoby/srodek-europy-dokumenty Documents]. {{pl}}
  
 
* Eugeni Bonet (ed.), ''Desmontaje: film, vídeo/apropiación, reciclaje'', IVAM, 1993. [[Media:Bonet_Eugeni_ed_Desmontaje_film_video-apropiacion_reciclaje_pp_1-36.pdf|Introduction and Bonet's essay]], [[Media:Bonet_Eugeni_ed_Desmontaje_film_video-apropiacion_reciclaje_Programa.pdf|Screening programme]], [http://www.visionaryfilm.net/2007/02/desmonatje-film-vdeoapropiacin.html]. {{es}}
 
* Eugeni Bonet (ed.), ''Desmontaje: film, vídeo/apropiación, reciclaje'', IVAM, 1993. [[Media:Bonet_Eugeni_ed_Desmontaje_film_video-apropiacion_reciclaje_pp_1-36.pdf|Introduction and Bonet's essay]], [[Media:Bonet_Eugeni_ed_Desmontaje_film_video-apropiacion_reciclaje_Programa.pdf|Screening programme]], [http://www.visionaryfilm.net/2007/02/desmonatje-film-vdeoapropiacin.html]. {{es}}
Line 127: Line 129:
 
* Norio Nishijima (ed.), ''Firumu wākushoppu'' [フィルム ワークショップ], Tokyo: Dagereo Shuppan, 1983, 222 pp. {{jp}}
 
* Norio Nishijima (ed.), ''Firumu wākushoppu'' [フィルム ワークショップ], Tokyo: Dagereo Shuppan, 1983, 222 pp. {{jp}}
  
* Jaroslav Andjel, Ljubica Stanivuk (eds.), ''[[Media:Andjel_Stanivuk_ur_Teorija_ceske_avangarde_1908-1937.pdf|Teorija česke avangarde 1908-1937]]'', Belgrade: Institut za film , 1987, 86 pp. {{sc}}
+
* Jaroslav Andjel, Ljubica Stanivuk (eds.), ''[[Media:Andjel_Stanivuk_ur_Teorija_ceske_avangarde_1908-1937.pdf|Teorija česke avangarde 1908-1937]]'', Belgrade: Institut za film, 1987, 86 pp. {{sc}}
  
 
* Miklós Peternák (ed.), ''[[Media:Peternak Miklos ed FILM A magyar avant-garde film tortenete es dokumentumai 1991.pdf|F.I.L.M. A magyar avant-garde film története és dokumentumai]]'', Budapest: Képzőművészeti Kiadó, 1991, 351 pp. {{hu}}
 
* Miklós Peternák (ed.), ''[[Media:Peternak Miklos ed FILM A magyar avant-garde film tortenete es dokumentumai 1991.pdf|F.I.L.M. A magyar avant-garde film története és dokumentumai]]'', Budapest: Képzőművészeti Kiadó, 1991, 351 pp. {{hu}}
 +
 +
* Scott MacDonald (ed.), ''[https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/f7263f53-ab25-4d78-b988-7b76cf15dff5 Screen Writings: Scripts and Texts by Independent Filmmakers]'', University of California Press, 1995, 352 pp. [https://www.ucpress.edu/books/screen-writings/paper Publisher].
  
 
* Wheeler Winston-Dixon, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster (eds.), ''Experimental Cinema: The Film Reader'', London and New York: Routledge, 2002, 356 pp. Covers the field of experimental and avant-garde cinema from the 1920s onward, concentrating on movements and varied key figures, with a concentration on issues such as gender, sexuality, and race, as well as the impact of technological innovation. Review: [https://sci-hub.st/10.1093/screen/45.4.440 Rees] (Screen).
 
* Wheeler Winston-Dixon, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster (eds.), ''Experimental Cinema: The Film Reader'', London and New York: Routledge, 2002, 356 pp. Covers the field of experimental and avant-garde cinema from the 1920s onward, concentrating on movements and varied key figures, with a concentration on issues such as gender, sexuality, and race, as well as the impact of technological innovation. Review: [https://sci-hub.st/10.1093/screen/45.4.440 Rees] (Screen).
Line 135: Line 139:
 
* Ulrich Wegenast (ed.), ''Kunst und Film. Texte zum künstlerischen Film'', Dresden: PHILO Fine Arts, 2002, 288 pp. {{de}}
 
* Ulrich Wegenast (ed.), ''Kunst und Film. Texte zum künstlerischen Film'', Dresden: PHILO Fine Arts, 2002, 288 pp. {{de}}
  
* Jackie Hatfield (ed.), ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=54D044BEBE99764F6DF6366DA2EDD90F Experimental Film and Video: An Anthology]'', forew. Sean Cubitt and Al Rees, Eastleigh: John Libbey, 2006, 302 pp. Forty artists have contributed images, and 25 artists reflect on the diverse critical agendas, contexts, and communities that have affected their practice across the period from the late 1960s to date. [https://iupress.org/9780861969067/experimental-film-and-video/] [https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt16gz6vq]
+
* Jackie Hatfield (ed.), ''[http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=54D044BEBE99764F6DF6366DA2EDD90F Experimental Film and Video: An Anthology]'', forew. Sean Cubitt and Al Rees, Eastleigh: John Libbey, 2006, 302 pp. Forty artists have contributed images, and 25 artists reflect on the diverse critical agendas, contexts, and communities that have affected their practice across the period from the late 1960s to date. [https://iupress.org/9780861969067/experimental-film-and-video/] [https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt16gz6vq]
  
 
* Patrícia Mourão, Theo Duarte (eds.), ''[[Media:Mourao Patricia Duarte Theo orgs Cinema estrutural 2015.pdf|Cinema estrutural]]'', Rio de Janeiro: Aroeira, 2015, 228 pp. {{br-pt}}
 
* Patrícia Mourão, Theo Duarte (eds.), ''[[Media:Mourao Patricia Duarte Theo orgs Cinema estrutural 2015.pdf|Cinema estrutural]]'', Rio de Janeiro: Aroeira, 2015, 228 pp. {{br-pt}}
Line 296: Line 300:
  
 
* William C. Wees, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=14938 Recycled Images: The Art and Politics of Found Footage Films]'', New York: Anthology Film Archives, 1993, 117 pp.
 
* William C. Wees, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=14938 Recycled Images: The Art and Politics of Found Footage Films]'', New York: Anthology Film Archives, 1993, 117 pp.
 +
 +
* Image Forum, ''Japanese Experimental Film & Video 1955–1994'', Osaka: Kirin Plaza Osaka, 1994.
  
 
* Germaine Dulac, ''Écrits sur le cinéma, 1919-1937'', ed. Prosper Hillairet, Paris: Paris expérimental, 1994, 225 pp. Anthology of Dulac's writings with contextual essay. [http://www.paris-experimental.asso.fr/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=58] {{fr}}
 
* Germaine Dulac, ''Écrits sur le cinéma, 1919-1937'', ed. Prosper Hillairet, Paris: Paris expérimental, 1994, 225 pp. Anthology of Dulac's writings with contextual essay. [http://www.paris-experimental.asso.fr/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=58] {{fr}}
Line 321: Line 327:
 
* ''Il cinema d'avanguardia: 1910-1930'', Venezia: Marsilio, 1997. {{it}}
 
* ''Il cinema d'avanguardia: 1910-1930'', Venezia: Marsilio, 1997. {{it}}
  
* Jack Sargeant, ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=F6CDBC27CB65D85259A6A4994EC208A8 Naked Lens: Beat Cinema]'', London: Creation Books, 1997; repr., Berkeley, CA: Soft Skull Press, 2008.
+
* Jack Sargeant, ''[http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=F6CDBC27CB65D85259A6A4994EC208A8 Naked Lens: Beat Cinema]'', London: Creation Books, 1997; repr., Berkeley, CA: Soft Skull Press, 2008.
  
 
* Wheeler W. Dixon, ''The Exploding Eye: A Re-Visionary History of 1960s American Experimental Cinema'', Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.  
 
* Wheeler W. Dixon, ''The Exploding Eye: A Re-Visionary History of 1960s American Experimental Cinema'', Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.  
Line 331: Line 337:
 
* Beatriz Sarlo Sabajanes, ''La maquina cultural: maestras, traductores y vanguardistas'', Buenos Aires: Ariel, 1998. {{es}}
 
* Beatriz Sarlo Sabajanes, ''La maquina cultural: maestras, traductores y vanguardistas'', Buenos Aires: Ariel, 1998. {{es}}
  
* Scott MacDonald, ''A Critical Cinema: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers'', 5 vols, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988–2005. Five volumes of in-depth, perceptive, enlightening interviews with a multitude of filmmakers offer a veritable history of the field. The author’s overriding concern is with experimental cinema as a form of critique of conventional media.
+
* Scott MacDonald, ''A Critical Cinema: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers'', 5 vols, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988–2005. [https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=E2A3E9470CB063D3A85A612A3BA69863 Vol. 2], [https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/bca42fce-7b63-48c5-8ffa-4f479b6ccda3 Vol. 5]. Five volumes of in-depth, perceptive, enlightening interviews with a multitude of filmmakers offer a veritable history of the field. The author’s overriding concern is with experimental cinema as a form of critique of conventional media.
  
 
* A. L. Rees, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=484 A History of Experimental Film and Video: From Canonical Avant-garde to Contemporary British Practice]'', London: British Film Institute, 1999, viii+152+[32] pp; 2nd ed., Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 208 pp.
 
* A. L. Rees, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=484 A History of Experimental Film and Video: From Canonical Avant-garde to Contemporary British Practice]'', London: British Film Institute, 1999, viii+152+[32] pp; 2nd ed., Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 208 pp.
Line 353: Line 359:
 
* Joan M Minguet Batllori, ''Cinema, modernitat i avantguarda (1920-1936)'', Valencia: E. Climent, 2000. {{es}}
 
* Joan M Minguet Batllori, ''Cinema, modernitat i avantguarda (1920-1936)'', Valencia: E. Climent, 2000. {{es}}
  
* Laura U. Marks, ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=ABAD90DE6DEB795A1636189EE70E1C37 The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses]'', Duke University Press, 2000, 320 pp. [http://criticalatinoamericana.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/marks_laura.pdf Excerpt], [http://www.dukeupress.edu/The-Skin-of-the-Film/].
+
* [[Laura U. Marks]], ''[http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=ABAD90DE6DEB795A1636189EE70E1C37 The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses]'', Duke University Press, 2000, 320 pp. [http://criticalatinoamericana.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/marks_laura.pdf Excerpt], [http://www.dukeupress.edu/The-Skin-of-the-Film/].
  
 
* Bill Nichols (ed.), ''[[Media:Nichols Bill ed Maya_Deren_and_the_American_Avant-Garde_2001.pdf|Maya Deren and the American Avant-garde]]'', University of California Press, 2001, xi+331 pp.
 
* Bill Nichols (ed.), ''[[Media:Nichols Bill ed Maya_Deren_and_the_American_Avant-Garde_2001.pdf|Maya Deren and the American Avant-garde]]'', University of California Press, 2001, xi+331 pp.
Line 363: Line 369:
 
* Bruce Posner (ed.), ''Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1893-1941'', New York: Black Thistle Press, and New York: Anthology Film Archives, 2001.  
 
* Bruce Posner (ed.), ''Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1893-1941'', New York: Black Thistle Press, and New York: Anthology Film Archives, 2001.  
  
* Malcolm Le Grice, ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=51E752DC085C4644042756AB7D2A5B58 Experimental Cinema in the Digital Age]'', London: BFI Publishing, 2001, 484 pp.
+
* Malcolm Le Grice, ''[http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=51E752DC085C4644042756AB7D2A5B58 Experimental Cinema in the Digital Age]'', London: BFI Publishing, 2001, 484 pp.
  
 
* Hans Scheugl, ''Erweitertes Kino. Die Wiener Filme der 60er Jahre'', Vienna: Triton, 2002. {{de}}
 
* Hans Scheugl, ''Erweitertes Kino. Die Wiener Filme der 60er Jahre'', Vienna: Triton, 2002. {{de}}
 +
 +
* [[Laura U. Marks]], ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=575 Touch: Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media]'', University of Minnesota Press, Oct 2002, 288 pp.
  
 
* Nina Danino, Michael Maziere (eds.), ''The Undercut reader: critical writings on artists' film and video'', London/New York: Wallflower, 2003.
 
* Nina Danino, Michael Maziere (eds.), ''The Undercut reader: critical writings on artists' film and video'', London/New York: Wallflower, 2003.
Line 373: Line 381:
 
* Nicky Hamlyn, ''Film Art Phenomena'', London: British Film Institute, 2003, viii+200 pp. [https://lukedunwoodie.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/hamlyn-film-art-phenomena.pdf Ch 4]. Reviews: [https://sci-hub.st/10.1093/screen/45.4.440 Rees] (Screen), [http://www.screeningthepast.com/2014/12/film-art-phenomena/ Conomos] (Screening the Past).
 
* Nicky Hamlyn, ''Film Art Phenomena'', London: British Film Institute, 2003, viii+200 pp. [https://lukedunwoodie.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/hamlyn-film-art-phenomena.pdf Ch 4]. Reviews: [https://sci-hub.st/10.1093/screen/45.4.440 Rees] (Screen), [http://www.screeningthepast.com/2014/12/film-art-phenomena/ Conomos] (Screening the Past).
  
* Michael O'Pray, ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=3537316B72A4AF597AB24050ECBBAECF Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions]'', London/New York: Wallflower, 2003.
+
* Michael O'Pray, ''[http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=3537316B72A4AF597AB24050ECBBAECF Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions]'', London/New York: Wallflower, 2003.
  
 
* Anna Abrahams, Mariska Graveland, Erwin van 't Hart, Peter van Hoof, ''MM2. Experimental film in the Netherlands since 1960'', Amsterdam: Filmbank & De Balie, 2004, 286 pp. [http://www.lumen.nu/isabelle.vigier/mm2.html]
 
* Anna Abrahams, Mariska Graveland, Erwin van 't Hart, Peter van Hoof, ''MM2. Experimental film in the Netherlands since 1960'', Amsterdam: Filmbank & De Balie, 2004, 286 pp. [http://www.lumen.nu/isabelle.vigier/mm2.html]
Line 402: Line 410:
  
 
* David Curtis, ''[[Media:Curtis_David_A_History_of_Artists_Film_and_Video_in_Britain_2007.pdf|A History of Artists' Film and Video in Britain]]'', London: BFI Publishing, 2007, 320 pp. [https://shop.bfi.org.uk/a-history-of-artists-film-and-video-in-britain.html Publisher].
 
* David Curtis, ''[[Media:Curtis_David_A_History_of_Artists_Film_and_Video_in_Britain_2007.pdf|A History of Artists' Film and Video in Britain]]'', London: BFI Publishing, 2007, 320 pp. [https://shop.bfi.org.uk/a-history-of-artists-film-and-video-in-britain.html Publisher].
 +
 +
* Scott MacDonald, ''[https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=49D5179A9BB49AC96BE2985F80A344A4 Canyon Cinema: The Life and Times of an Independent Film Distributor]'', University of California Press, 2007, [https://archive.org/details/canyoncinemalife0000macd IA]. [https://harvardfilmarchive.org/programs/canyon-cinema-the-life-and-times-of-an-independent-film-dist]
  
 
* Jacques Aumont, ''Moderne? Comment le cinéma est devenu le plus singulier des arts'', Paris: Cahiers du Cinéma, 2007. {{fr}}
 
* Jacques Aumont, ''Moderne? Comment le cinéma est devenu le plus singulier des arts'', Paris: Cahiers du Cinéma, 2007. {{fr}}
Line 409: Line 419:
 
* Malte Hagener, ''[http://arno.uva.nl/document/171983 Moving Forward, Looking Back: The European Avant-garde and the Invention of Film Culture, 1919-1939]'', Amsterdam University Press, 2007, 376 pp.
 
* Malte Hagener, ''[http://arno.uva.nl/document/171983 Moving Forward, Looking Back: The European Avant-garde and the Invention of Film Culture, 1919-1939]'', Amsterdam University Press, 2007, 376 pp.
  
* Alexander Graf, Dietrich Scheunemann (eds.), ''[http://libgen.rs/get?md5=A374B50B0671EF2BAC306D4815BBC682&open=0 Avant-garde Film]'', Rodopi, 2007. Result of a research project at the University of Edinburgh that aims to connect the history of avant-garde film to the wider avant-garde in literature and art. It establishes a continuum between the contemporary moving image and the classical experimental film that preceded it from the 1920s onward.
+
* Alexander Graf, Dietrich Scheunemann (eds.), ''[http://libgen.is/get?md5=A374B50B0671EF2BAC306D4815BBC682&open=0 Avant-garde Film]'', Rodopi, 2007. Result of a research project at the University of Edinburgh that aims to connect the history of avant-garde film to the wider avant-garde in literature and art. It establishes a continuum between the contemporary moving image and the classical experimental film that preceded it from the 1920s onward.
  
 
* Łukasz Ronduda, Florian Zeyfang (eds.), ''1,2,3... Avant-Gardes: Film/Art between Experiment and Archive'', Warsaw: Centre for Contemporary Art, and Berlin/New York: Sternberg, 2007.  [http://www.sternberg-press.com/index.php?pageId=1177&bookId=77&l=en] {{en}}/{{de}}
 
* Łukasz Ronduda, Florian Zeyfang (eds.), ''1,2,3... Avant-Gardes: Film/Art between Experiment and Archive'', Warsaw: Centre for Contemporary Art, and Berlin/New York: Sternberg, 2007.  [http://www.sternberg-press.com/index.php?pageId=1177&bookId=77&l=en] {{en}}/{{de}}
  
* Duncan Reekie, ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=a076b5eed59342dd9a817b36c49b2c1e&open=0 Subversion: The Definitive History of Underground Cinema]'', London: Wallflower Press, 2007. Review: [https://www.variant.org.uk/pdfs/issue31/31RadicalPop.pdf Szczelkun] (Variant).
+
* Duncan Reekie, ''[http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=a076b5eed59342dd9a817b36c49b2c1e&open=0 Subversion: The Definitive History of Underground Cinema]'', London: Wallflower Press, 2007. Review: [https://www.variant.org.uk/pdfs/issue31/31RadicalPop.pdf Szczelkun] (Variant).
  
 
* P. Adams Sitney, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=488 Eyes Upside Down: Visionary Filmmakers and the Heritage of Emerson]'', Oxford University Press, 2008, xiv+417+[32] pp.
 
* P. Adams Sitney, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=488 Eyes Upside Down: Visionary Filmmakers and the Heritage of Emerson]'', Oxford University Press, 2008, xiv+417+[32] pp.
Line 443: Line 453:
 
<div class=twocol>
 
<div class=twocol>
  
* Gabriele Jutz, ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=5c3b5cd3f16689d264e67f06c832f880&open=0 Cinéma brut. Eine alternative Genealogie der Filmavantgarde]'', Springer, 2010, 295 pp. {{de}}
+
* Gabriele Jutz, ''[http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=5c3b5cd3f16689d264e67f06c832f880&open=0 Cinéma brut. Eine alternative Genealogie der Filmavantgarde]'', Springer, 2010, 295 pp. {{de}}
  
 
* Nicole Brenez, Bidhan Jacobs (eds.), ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/57b4e43b9ff37c5920b986ec Le Cinéma critique: de l'argentique au numérique, voies et formes de l'objection visuelle]'', Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2010, 267 pp. Conference proceedings. [http://www.editionsdelasorbonne.fr/en/livre/?GCOI=28405100100350] {{fr}}
 
* Nicole Brenez, Bidhan Jacobs (eds.), ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/57b4e43b9ff37c5920b986ec Le Cinéma critique: de l'argentique au numérique, voies et formes de l'objection visuelle]'', Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2010, 267 pp. Conference proceedings. [http://www.editionsdelasorbonne.fr/en/livre/?GCOI=28405100100350] {{fr}}
Line 460: Line 470:
 
* William E.B. Verrone, ''The Avant-Garde Feature Film: A Critical History'', Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012, 222 pp.
 
* William E.B. Verrone, ''The Avant-Garde Feature Film: A Critical History'', Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012, 222 pp.
  
* Akira Mizuta Lippit, ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=3454CCD9791BC2A6C21CE96F65DE376D Ex-Cinema: From a Theory of Experimental Film and Video]'', University of California Press, 2012, 189 pp, [http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=2112CA4F645ACE09963BCA513F220CD7 EPUB]. Review: [http://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue6/HTML/ReviewFlynn.html Flynn] (Alphaville).
+
* Akira Mizuta Lippit, ''[http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=3454CCD9791BC2A6C21CE96F65DE376D Ex-Cinema: From a Theory of Experimental Film and Video]'', University of California Press, 2012, 189 pp, [http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=2112CA4F645ACE09963BCA513F220CD7 EPUB]. Review: [http://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue6/HTML/ReviewFlynn.html Flynn] (Alphaville).
  
 
* Adriano Aprà (ed.), ''Fuori norma. La via sperimentale del cinema italiano'', Marsilio, 2013, 208 pp. {{it}}
 
* Adriano Aprà (ed.), ''Fuori norma. La via sperimentale del cinema italiano'', Marsilio, 2013, 208 pp. {{it}}
  
* David Andrews, ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=FE30C528FA1F81A4BF487EAAA8FBB686 Theorizing Art Cinemas: Foreign, Cult, Avant-Garde and Beyond]'', Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013, 304 pp.
+
* David Andrews, ''[http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=FE30C528FA1F81A4BF487EAAA8FBB686 Theorizing Art Cinemas: Foreign, Cult, Avant-Garde and Beyond]'', Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013, 304 pp.
  
 
* Martin Čihák, ''Ponorná řeka kinematografie'', Prague: NAMU, 2013, 304 pp. Based on dissertation ''Skladebné postupy filmových avantgard'' (2004). [https://issuu.com/dok.revue/docs/ponorna_ukazka_2 Excerpt]. [https://namu.cz/ponorna-reka-kinematografie Publisher]. Reviews: [https://namu.cz/files/2014-06/140603155126.pdf Hudec] (Kino Ikon), [https://www.dokrevue.cz/clanky/der-absolute-cihak Střeláková] (Dokrevue), [http://www.indiefilm.cz/2014/01/13/ponorna-reka-kinematografie-manifestace-divu-plna/ Blažek] (IndieFilm), [http://25fps.cz/2014/ponorna-reka-kinematografie/ Meixner] (25fps). {{cz}}
 
* Martin Čihák, ''Ponorná řeka kinematografie'', Prague: NAMU, 2013, 304 pp. Based on dissertation ''Skladebné postupy filmových avantgard'' (2004). [https://issuu.com/dok.revue/docs/ponorna_ukazka_2 Excerpt]. [https://namu.cz/ponorna-reka-kinematografie Publisher]. Reviews: [https://namu.cz/files/2014-06/140603155126.pdf Hudec] (Kino Ikon), [https://www.dokrevue.cz/clanky/der-absolute-cihak Střeláková] (Dokrevue), [http://www.indiefilm.cz/2014/01/13/ponorna-reka-kinematografie-manifestace-divu-plna/ Blažek] (IndieFilm), [http://25fps.cz/2014/ponorna-reka-kinematografie/ Meixner] (25fps). {{cz}}
  
* ''Film as Film: The Collected Writings of Gregory J. Markopoulos'', ed. Mark Webber, forew. P. Adams Sitney, The Visible Press, 2014; rev.ed., 2017, 544 pp. [https://thevisiblepress.com/product/film-as-film-paperback/]
+
* ''[https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=2071554D22F30DDDE2EE807C72215012 Film as Film: The Collected Writings of Gregory J. Markopoulos]'', ed. Mark Webber, forew. P. Adams Sitney, The Visible Press, 2014; rev.ed., 2017, 544 pp. [https://thevisiblepress.com/product/film-as-film-paperback/ Publisher].
 +
 
 +
* Scott MacDonald, ''[https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/8ebb54c4-3cfb-4573-8011-d4c8e980ea22 Avant-Doc: Intersections of Documentary and Avant-Garde Cinema]'', Oxford University Press, 2014. [https://academic.oup.com/book/12189 Publisher].
  
* Arnd Schneider, Caterina Pasqualino (eds.), ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=9B1B7D398581F64215EE79492766F90E Experimental Film and Anthropology]'', Berg/Bloomsbury, 2014, 208 pp. [http://www.quaibranly.fr/fileadmin/user_upload/enseignement_et_recherche/programmes/final_program_EXPERIMENTAL__FILM_AND_AND_ANTHROPOLOGY-2E.pdf Conference]. [http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/experimental-film-and-anthropology-9780857858221/]
+
* Arnd Schneider, Caterina Pasqualino (eds.), ''[http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=9B1B7D398581F64215EE79492766F90E Experimental Film and Anthropology]'', Berg/Bloomsbury, 2014, 208 pp. [http://www.quaibranly.fr/fileadmin/user_upload/enseignement_et_recherche/programmes/final_program_EXPERIMENTAL__FILM_AND_AND_ANTHROPOLOGY-2E.pdf Conference]. [http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/experimental-film-and-anthropology-9780857858221/]
  
* Andrew V. Uroskie, ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=6721c23ed5987797cf6428ecd9a2100b Between the Black Box and the White Cube: Expanded Cinema and Postwar Art]'', University of Chicago Press, 2014, 288 pp.
+
* Andrew V. Uroskie, ''[http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=6721c23ed5987797cf6428ecd9a2100b Between the Black Box and the White Cube: Expanded Cinema and Postwar Art]'', University of Chicago Press, 2014, 288 pp.
  
 
* Ara Osterweil, ''Flesh Cinema: The Corporeal Turn in American Avant-Garde Film'', Manchester University Press, 2014, 304 pp. [http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719091919/]
 
* Ara Osterweil, ''Flesh Cinema: The Corporeal Turn in American Avant-Garde Film'', Manchester University Press, 2014, 304 pp. [http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719091919/]
Line 480: Line 492:
 
* Albert Alcoz, Alberto Cabrera Bernal (eds.), ''Angular'' 1, trans. Mattea Cussel, Angular, 2014, 82 pp. Incl. DVD with 13 films (122 min). [http://angularfilms.com/shop.html] [http://angularfilms.com/volume_01_eng.html] {{es}}/{{en}}
 
* Albert Alcoz, Alberto Cabrera Bernal (eds.), ''Angular'' 1, trans. Mattea Cussel, Angular, 2014, 82 pp. Incl. DVD with 13 films (122 min). [http://angularfilms.com/shop.html] [http://angularfilms.com/volume_01_eng.html] {{es}}/{{en}}
  
* Kamila Kuc, Michael O'Pray (eds.), ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=3B850D317800BB7DEB131C8887EFFCC9 The Struggle for Form: Perspectives on Polish Avant-Garde Film, 1916–1989]'', New York: Wallflower Press, 2014. {{en}}
+
* Kamila Kuc, Michael O'Pray (eds.), ''[http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=3B850D317800BB7DEB131C8887EFFCC9 The Struggle for Form: Perspectives on Polish Avant-Garde Film, 1916–1989]'', New York: Wallflower Press, 2014. {{en}}
  
 
* P. Adams Sitney, ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/fe6d13fb-a091-493c-9bb5-38345482316c The Cinema of Poetry]'', Oxford University Press, 2014, 292 pp, [https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/5eedb12a9ff37c46062e81c2 ARG]. [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-cinema-of-poetry-9780199337026] {{en}}
 
* P. Adams Sitney, ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/fe6d13fb-a091-493c-9bb5-38345482316c The Cinema of Poetry]'', Oxford University Press, 2014, 292 pp, [https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/5eedb12a9ff37c46062e81c2 ARG]. [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-cinema-of-poetry-9780199337026] {{en}}
Line 486: Line 498:
 
* David E. James, Adam Hyman (eds.), ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/7d42ecdc-5da6-457a-994c-1dca9ed40bcd Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980]'', John Libbey, 2015, viii+335 pp. [http://www.johnlibbey.com/books_detail.php?area=cine&ID=169]
 
* David E. James, Adam Hyman (eds.), ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/7d42ecdc-5da6-457a-994c-1dca9ed40bcd Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980]'', John Libbey, 2015, viii+335 pp. [http://www.johnlibbey.com/books_detail.php?area=cine&ID=169]
  
* Patti Gaal-Holmes, ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=AC9332011F5A3EB3563A390383C04D86 A History of 1970s Experimental Film: Britain’s Decade of Diversity]'', Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, 231 pp.
+
* Patti Gaal-Holmes, ''[http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=AC9332011F5A3EB3563A390383C04D86 A History of 1970s Experimental Film: Britain’s Decade of Diversity]'', Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, 231 pp.
  
 
* Jackie Hatfield (ed.), ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/a67ecd00-cdb1-4305-84c1-fb5c961620ec Experimental Film and Video: An Anthology]'', John Libbey, 2015, 283 pp.
 
* Jackie Hatfield (ed.), ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/a67ecd00-cdb1-4305-84c1-fb5c961620ec Experimental Film and Video: An Anthology]'', John Libbey, 2015, 283 pp.
  
* Alice Lovejoy, ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=AE94ECF60271DC29C801DFC1008E9A38 Army Film and the Avant Garde: Cinema and Experiment in the Czechoslovak Military]'', Indiana University Press, 2015, 322 pp. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt16gznht]
+
* Alice Lovejoy, ''[http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=AE94ECF60271DC29C801DFC1008E9A38 Army Film and the Avant Garde: Cinema and Experiment in the Czechoslovak Military]'', Indiana University Press, 2015, 322 pp. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt16gznht]
  
 
* François Bovier, Adeena Mey (eds.), ''Cinéma exposé – Films d'artistes, art vidéo et exposition d’images en mouvement /  Exhibited Cinema: Exhibiting Artists' Films, Video Art and Moving Image'', Dijon: Les Presses du réel, 2015, 224 pp. [http://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=3871] {{fr}}/{{en}}
 
* François Bovier, Adeena Mey (eds.), ''Cinéma exposé – Films d'artistes, art vidéo et exposition d’images en mouvement /  Exhibited Cinema: Exhibiting Artists' Films, Video Art and Moving Image'', Dijon: Les Presses du réel, 2015, 224 pp. [http://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=3871] {{fr}}/{{en}}
Line 499: Line 511:
 
** ''Buenos Aires Experiment'', Prague: AMU – Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, 2017, 162 pp. [https://namu.cz/files/2017-08/170814161920.pdf Excerpt]. [https://namu.cz/buenos-aires-experiment-english] {{en}}
 
** ''Buenos Aires Experiment'', Prague: AMU – Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, 2017, 162 pp. [https://namu.cz/files/2017-08/170814161920.pdf Excerpt]. [https://namu.cz/buenos-aires-experiment-english] {{en}}
  
* Kamila Kuc, ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=5EFC211678CDC792A35282BEB5B74C6B Visions of Avant-Garde Film: Polish Cinematic Experiments from Expressionism to Constructivism]'', Indiana University Press, 2016. {{en}}
+
* Kamila Kuc, ''[http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=5EFC211678CDC792A35282BEB5B74C6B Visions of Avant-Garde Film: Polish Cinematic Experiments from Expressionism to Constructivism]'', Indiana University Press, 2016. {{en}}
  
 
* Peter Gidal, ''Flare Out: Aesthetics 1966-2016'', eds. Mark Webber and Peter Gidal, The Visible Press, 2016, 288 pp. A collection of essays by Peter Gidal on film, art and aesthetics. Response: [http://www.worldpicturejournal.com/WP_12/Walley_12.html Walley] (World Picture). [https://thevisiblepress.com/product/flare-out/]
 
* Peter Gidal, ''Flare Out: Aesthetics 1966-2016'', eds. Mark Webber and Peter Gidal, The Visible Press, 2016, 288 pp. A collection of essays by Peter Gidal on film, art and aesthetics. Response: [http://www.worldpicturejournal.com/WP_12/Walley_12.html Walley] (World Picture). [https://thevisiblepress.com/product/flare-out/]
Line 514: Line 526:
  
 
* [[Pavle Levi]], ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/32369712-a2cf-44bf-b53c-2ce4fc83e556 Jolted Images: Unbound Analytic]'', Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, Oct 2017, 216 pp. [https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789462983618/jolted-images Publisher].  
 
* [[Pavle Levi]], ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/32369712-a2cf-44bf-b53c-2ce4fc83e556 Jolted Images: Unbound Analytic]'', Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, Oct 2017, 216 pp. [https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789462983618/jolted-images Publisher].  
 +
 +
* Patricia R. Zimmermann, Scott MacDonald, ''[https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/4c1396f6-e13e-4fcf-9ff0-a330bdc0c8ae The Flaherty: Decades in the Cause of Independent Cinema]'', Indiana University Press, 2017.
  
 
* Érik Bullot (ed.), ''Du film performatif'', Dijon: Les Presses du réel, 2018, 265 pp. [http://www.lespressesdureel.com/ouvrage.php?id=6510] {{fr}}
 
* Érik Bullot (ed.), ''Du film performatif'', Dijon: Les Presses du réel, 2018, 265 pp. [http://www.lespressesdureel.com/ouvrage.php?id=6510] {{fr}}
Line 527: Line 541:
 
* Olga Moskatova, ''Male am Zelluloid. Zum relationalen Materialismus im kameralosen Film'', Bielefeld: transcript, 2019, 390 pp. Based on dissertation from the Berlin Universität der Künste, 2016. [https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-4671-9/male-am-zelluloid/] {{de}}
 
* Olga Moskatova, ''Male am Zelluloid. Zum relationalen Materialismus im kameralosen Film'', Bielefeld: transcript, 2019, 390 pp. Based on dissertation from the Berlin Universität der Künste, 2016. [https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-4671-9/male-am-zelluloid/] {{de}}
  
* Scott MacKenzie, Janine Marchessault (eds.), ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=E72D7E5DD3F7503D4F18AA26A5D21D79 Process Cinema: Handmade Film in the Digital Age]'', McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019.  
+
* Scott MacKenzie, Janine Marchessault (eds.), ''[http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=E72D7E5DD3F7503D4F18AA26A5D21D79 Process Cinema: Handmade Film in the Digital Age]'', McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019.  
  
* Lucy Reynolds (ed.), ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=E79B3C51782473B646670E3636D00A97 Women Artists, Feminism and the Moving Image: Contexts and Practices]'', Bloomsbury, 2019, 328 pp, [http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=8CF0D84C00C15E6D9CA1A374890508AC EPUB]. [https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-artists-feminism-and-the-moving-image-9781784537005/ Publisher].
+
* Lucy Reynolds (ed.), ''[http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=E79B3C51782473B646670E3636D00A97 Women Artists, Feminism and the Moving Image: Contexts and Practices]'', Bloomsbury, 2019, 328 pp, [http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=8CF0D84C00C15E6D9CA1A374890508AC EPUB]. [https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-artists-feminism-and-the-moving-image-9781784537005/ Publisher].
  
 
* Erika Balsom, Lucy Reynolds, Sarah Perks (eds.), ''Artists' Moving Image in Britain Since 1989'', Yale University Press, 2019, 544 pp. [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9781913107017/artists-moving-image-britain-1989 Publisher]. [https://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/whats-on/forthcoming/artists-moving-image-in-britain-since-1989]
 
* Erika Balsom, Lucy Reynolds, Sarah Perks (eds.), ''Artists' Moving Image in Britain Since 1989'', Yale University Press, 2019, 544 pp. [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9781913107017/artists-moving-image-britain-1989 Publisher]. [https://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/whats-on/forthcoming/artists-moving-image-in-britain-since-1989]
 +
 +
* Scott MacDonald, ''[https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/95ea5cd1-f661-4d91-8579-a9b4079f2d68 The Sublimity of Document: Cinema as Diorama (Avant-Doc 2)]'', Oxford University Press, 2019. A collection of in-depth, substantive interviews with moving-image artists working “avant-doc,” that is, making films that explore the territory between documentary and experimental cinema. [https://academic.oup.com/book/35236 Publisher].
  
 
* Seth Howes, ''Moving Images on the Margins: Experimental Film in Late Socialist East Germany'', Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2019, 280 pp. [https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781640140684/moving-images-on-the-margins/ Publisher]. Reviews: [https://sci-hub.st/10.1080/17411548.2020.1851997 Ward] (Stud Eur Cinema), [https://sci-hub.st/10.1353/gsr.2020.0059 Smith] (German Stud Rev), [https://sci-hub.st/10.1093/gerhis/ghaa043 Heiduschke] (German Hist), [https://artmargins.com/moving-images-on-the-margins-experimental-film-in-late-socialist-east-germany/ Fritzsch] (ArtMargins). [https://books.google.com/books?id=9GKtDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover] [https://doi.org/10.1017/9781787447011]
 
* Seth Howes, ''Moving Images on the Margins: Experimental Film in Late Socialist East Germany'', Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2019, 280 pp. [https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781640140684/moving-images-on-the-margins/ Publisher]. Reviews: [https://sci-hub.st/10.1080/17411548.2020.1851997 Ward] (Stud Eur Cinema), [https://sci-hub.st/10.1353/gsr.2020.0059 Smith] (German Stud Rev), [https://sci-hub.st/10.1093/gerhis/ghaa043 Heiduschke] (German Hist), [https://artmargins.com/moving-images-on-the-margins-experimental-film-in-late-socialist-east-germany/ Fritzsch] (ArtMargins). [https://books.google.com/books?id=9GKtDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover] [https://doi.org/10.1017/9781787447011]
Line 541: Line 557:
 
<div class=twocol>
 
<div class=twocol>
  
* Kim Knowles, ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=D07C686C41E7DCCD774EF174B2A7F279 Experimental Film and Photochemical Practices]'', Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, xv+255 pp, [http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=FA8D43FEE116BB2413304E72ED044733 EPUB].
+
* Kim Knowles, ''[https://libgen.li/edition.php?id=138578004 Experimental Film and Photochemical Practices]'', Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, xv+255 pp, [https://libgen.li/edition.php?id=138578006 EPUB].
  
* Sarah Durcan, ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=41544B94767CFF9E64223BCB58267513 Memory and Intermediality in Artists’ Moving Image]'', Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 260 pp.
+
* Sarah Durcan, ''[https://libgen.li/edition.php?id=131382862 Memory and Intermediality in Artists’ Moving Image]'', Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 260 pp.
  
* Jill Murphy, Laura Rascaroli (eds.), ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=E724D114C74D616AD11482FBFE9EB468 Theorizing Film Through Contemporary Art: Expanding Cinema]'', Amsterdam University Press, 2020.  
+
* Jill Murphy, Laura Rascaroli (eds.), ''[https://libgen.li/edition.php?id=132057142 Theorizing Film Through Contemporary Art: Expanding Cinema]'', Amsterdam University Press, 2020.  
  
* Gregory Zinman, ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=9531C5E221DD255AA9397CCD5FEDB2F0 Making Images Move: Handmade Cinema and the Other Arts]'', University of California Press, 2020, 392 pp. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvqr1bkx]
+
* Gregory Zinman, ''[https://libgen.li/edition.php?id=138504436 Making Images Move: Handmade Cinema and the Other Arts]'', University of California Press, 2020, 392 pp. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvqr1bkx]
  
* Jonathan Walley, ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=52FCD3246F8D98823D0FB36102688421 Cinema Expanded: Avant-Garde Film in the Age of Intermedia]'', Oxford University Press, 2020, 432 pp. [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/cinema-expanded-9780190938635 Publisher].
+
* Jonathan Walley, ''[https://libgen.li/edition.php?id=138580784 Cinema Expanded: Avant-Garde Film in the Age of Intermedia]'', Oxford University Press, 2020, 432 pp. [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/cinema-expanded-9780190938635 Publisher].
  
 
* Kim Knowles, Marion Schmid (eds.), ''[https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-cinematic-intermediality.html Cinematic Intermediality: Theory and Practice]'', Edinburgh University Press, 2021, 224 pp. [https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-cinematic-intermediality.html Publisher].
 
* Kim Knowles, Marion Schmid (eds.), ''[https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-cinematic-intermediality.html Cinematic Intermediality: Theory and Practice]'', Edinburgh University Press, 2021, 224 pp. [https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-cinematic-intermediality.html Publisher].
  
* Arnd Schneider, ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=C2AD163F48041101B9780B4858784A30 Expanded Visions: A New Anthropology of the Moving Image]'', Routledge, 2021, 212 pp. [https://www.routledge.com/Expanded-Visions-A-New-Anthropology-of-the-Moving-Image/Schneider/p/book/9780367253684 Publisher].
+
* Arnd Schneider, ''[https://libgen.li/edition.php?id=138804701 Expanded Visions: A New Anthropology of the Moving Image]'', Routledge, 2021, 212 pp. [https://www.routledge.com/Expanded-Visions-A-New-Anthropology-of-the-Moving-Image/Schneider/p/book/9780367253684 Publisher].
  
* David Curtis, Steve McQueen, ''[https://hostb.org/1CQZ Artists' Film]'', London: Thames & Hudson, 2021, 340 pp. [https://thamesandhudson.com/artists-film-9780500204733 Publisher].
+
* David Curtis, Steve McQueen, ''Artists' Film'', London: Thames & Hudson, 2021, 340 pp. [https://thamesandhudson.com/artists-film-9780500204733 Publisher].
  
 
* Laura A. Frahm, ''Design in Motion: Film Experiments at the Bauhaus'', MIT Press (Leonardo), 2022, 428 pp. [https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262045186/design-in-motion/ Publisher].
 
* Laura A. Frahm, ''Design in Motion: Film Experiments at the Bauhaus'', MIT Press (Leonardo), 2022, 428 pp. [https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262045186/design-in-motion/ Publisher].
  
* Federico Windhausen (ed.), ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=A65F29EA073580ACF2F5A498BA9F5364 A Companion to Experimental Cinema]'', Wiley-Blackwell, 2022, 480 pp, [http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=46D2621E0E67D2D6341BB3CA36C906F0 EPUB]. [https://www.wiley.com/en-us/A+Companion+to+Experimental+Cinema-p-9781119107903 Publisher].
+
* Federico Windhausen (ed.), ''[https://libgen.li/edition.php?id=142234477 A Companion to Experimental Cinema]'', Wiley-Blackwell, 2022, 480 pp. [https://www.wiley.com/en-us/A+Companion+to+Experimental+Cinema-p-9781119107903 Publisher].
  
* Ksenya Gurshtein, Sonja Simonyi (eds.), ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=89EADFD17E5478FF9523E7F62FBCF5AD Experimental Cinemas in State-Socialist Eastern Europe]'', Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022, 334 pp. [https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789462982994/experimental-cinemas-in-state-socialist-eastern-europe Publisher]. [https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789462982994/experimental-cinemas-in-state-socialist-eastern-europe#toc TOC]. Review: [https://artmargins.com/experimental-cinemas/ Sitek] (Artmargins). [https://doi.org/10.5117/9789462982994]
+
* Ksenya Gurshtein, Sonja Simonyi (eds.), ''[https://libgen.li/edition.php?id=142239278 Experimental Cinemas in State-Socialist Eastern Europe]'', Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022, 334 pp. [https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789462982994/experimental-cinemas-in-state-socialist-eastern-europe Publisher]. [https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789462982994/experimental-cinemas-in-state-socialist-eastern-europe#toc TOC]. Review: [https://artmargins.com/experimental-cinemas/ Sitek] (Artmargins). [https://doi.org/10.5117/9789462982994]
  
 
* Elio Della Noce, Lucas Murari (eds.), ''Expanded nature: écologies du cinéma expérimental'', Paris: Light Cone, 2022, 336 pp. [https://lightcone.org/en/news-750-expanded-nature-ecologies-du-cinema-experimental Publisher]. [https://www.lespressesdureel.com/ouvrage.php?id=9599] {{fr}}
 
* Elio Della Noce, Lucas Murari (eds.), ''Expanded nature: écologies du cinéma expérimental'', Paris: Light Cone, 2022, 336 pp. [https://lightcone.org/en/news-750-expanded-nature-ecologies-du-cinema-experimental Publisher]. [https://www.lespressesdureel.com/ouvrage.php?id=9599] {{fr}}
Line 567: Line 583:
 
* Erika Balsom, Hila Peleg (eds.), ''Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image'', MIT Press, 2022, 320 pp. [https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/feminist-worldmaking-and-moving-image Publisher]. [https://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/2022/no_master_territories/start.php Exhibition].
 
* Erika Balsom, Hila Peleg (eds.), ''Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image'', MIT Press, 2022, 320 pp. [https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/feminist-worldmaking-and-moving-image Publisher]. [https://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/2022/no_master_territories/start.php Exhibition].
  
* Howard Finn, ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=CAB66DC2CC3471816439615B547D1963 Cinematic Modernism and Contemporary Film: Aesthetics and Narrative in the International Art Film]'', Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, 336 pp. [https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/cinematic-modernism-and-contemporary-film-9781788312738/ Publisher].
+
* Howard Finn, ''[https://libgen.li/edition.php?id=143107370 Cinematic Modernism and Contemporary Film: Aesthetics and Narrative in the International Art Film]'', Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, 336 pp. [https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/cinematic-modernism-and-contemporary-film-9781788312738/ Publisher].
 +
 
 +
* Jennifer DeClue, ''[https://libgen.li/edition.php?id=146796222 Visitation: The Conjure Work of Black Feminist Avant-Garde Cinema]'', Duke University Press, 2022.
 +
 
 +
* Juan A. Suárez, ''[https://libgen.li/edition.php?id=149933500 Experimental Film and Queer Materiality]'', Oxford University Press, Aug 2024, 328 pp. [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/experimental-film-and-queer-materiality-9780197773802 Publisher].
 +
 
 +
* Kim Knowles, Jonathan Walley (eds.), ''[https://libgen.li/edition.php?id=148798449 The Palgrave Handbook of Experimental Cinema]'', Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, Sep 2024, xxi+616 pp. [https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55256-4 Publisher].
 +
 
 +
* Sophia Satchell-Baeza, ''Sensual Laboratories: Light Shows, Experimental Film, and Psychedelic Art'', forew. Jarvis Cocker, Strange Attractor Press, 2025, 200 pp. [https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781913689872/sensual-laboratories/ Distributor].
  
* Jennifer DeClue, ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=51BF982A0A70C03AD6642A52518CE526 Visitation: The Conjure Work of Black Feminist Avant-Garde Cinema]'', Duke University Press, 2022.
 
 
</div>
 
</div>
  
Line 583: Line 606:
 
* ''Studies in Eastern European Cinema'' 7(1): "Experimental Cinema in State Socialist Eastern Europe", eds. Ksenya Gurshtein and Sonja Simonyi, 2016. [https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/reec20/7/1] {{en}}
 
* ''Studies in Eastern European Cinema'' 7(1): "Experimental Cinema in State Socialist Eastern Europe", eds. Ksenya Gurshtein and Sonja Simonyi, 2016. [https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/reec20/7/1] {{en}}
 
* [https://revistas.uam.es/secuencias/issue/view/1154 ''Secuencias. Revista de historia del cine'' 55: "Súper 8 contra el grano"], eds. Miguel Errazu and Alberto Berzosa, UAM, 2022, [https://revistas.uam.es/secuencias/issue/view/1154/775 PDF]. {{es}}
 
* [https://revistas.uam.es/secuencias/issue/view/1154 ''Secuencias. Revista de historia del cine'' 55: "Súper 8 contra el grano"], eds. Miguel Errazu and Alberto Berzosa, UAM, 2022, [https://revistas.uam.es/secuencias/issue/view/1154/775 PDF]. {{es}}
 +
* [https://journals.oregondigital.org/konturen/issue/view/807 ''Konturen'' 12: "Feminism, Theory, Film: Critical Intersections in the Practice and Theorization of Experimental Filmmaking since the 1970s"], ed. Sonja Boos, May 2022.
  
 
</div>
 
</div>

Latest revision as of 11:22, 23 September 2025

Experimental film, avant-garde cinema, artists' film

Pages[edit]

Resources[edit]

Publications[edit]

Publications by & about individual filmmakers are listed on their respective pages.

Journals, magazines[edit]

Exhibition catalogues and brochures[edit]

  • Birgit Hein, Wulf Herzogenrath (eds.), Film als Film: 1910 bis heute: vom Animationsfilm der zwanziger zum Filmenvironment der siebziger Jahre, Cologne: Kölnischer Kunstverein, 1977, 268 pp. Exh. catalogue. (German)
  • Dominique Noguez, Trente ans de cinéma expérimental en France, 1950-1980, Paris: A.R.C.E.F., 1982, 117 pp. [3] (French)
  • Eugeni Bonet, Manuel Palacio (eds.), Practica Filmica y Vanguardia Artistica en Espana / The Avant-garde Film in Spain: 1925-1981, Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1983. (Spanish)
  • Prosper Hillairet, Christian Lebrat, Patrice Rollet, Paris vu par le cinéma d'avant-garde (1923-1983), Paris: Paris expérimental, 1985. [4] (French)
  • Paul de Mol, Nelly Voorhuis (eds.), Het Experiment in de Nederlandse Film, Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 1985. (Dutch)
  • Środek Europy. Awangardowe kino i sztuka video z Austrii, Czecho-Słowacji, Polski i Węgier, ed. Ryszard W. Kluszczynski, Warsaw: Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, 1991, 80 pp. Exh. cat. Texts: Ryszard W. Kluszczyński, Peter Tscherkassky, Gerda Lampalzer, Jozef Macko, Miklós Peternák. Exh. held at CSW Warsaw, 15-21 Apr 1991. Documents. (Polish)
  • Gerda J. Cammaer (ed.), Changing Times, Time Changes: Canadian Experimental Films and Videos of the 1990s, forew. Ingrid Jenkner, Halifax, N.S.: Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, 2002, 35 pp, IA. [7] (English)
  • Gerda Cammaer (ed.), Placing Spaces, Spacing Places: Canadian Experimental Films & Videos of the 1990s, Halifax, N.S.: Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, 2003, IA. (English)
  • Jean-Michel Bouhours, Bruce Posner, Isabelle Ribadeau Dumas (eds.), En Marge de Hollywood, la première avant-garde cinématographique américaine, 1893-1941, Paris: Centre Georges-Pompidou, 2003. (French)
  • Carolina López (ed.), Xcèntric: 45 películas contra dirección, Barcelona: CCCB, 2006, 176 pp. [8] (Spanish)
  • Mike Sperlinger, Ian White (eds.), Kinomuseum. Towards an Artist's Cinema, Cologne: Walther König, 2008, 176 pp. Exh. catalogue for screening series curated by Ian White. [9] [10]
  • Anna Abrahams, Claartje Opdam, Mariska Graveland, film3 [‘kju:bIk fIlm], Amsterdam: EYE Film Institute Netherlands & Amsterdam University Press, 2010, 390 pp. [11] (English)/(Dutch)
  • Ana Janevski (ed.), As Soon as I Open My Eyes I See a Film: Experiment in the Art of Yugoslavia in the 1960s and 1970s, Warsaw: Museum of Modern Art, 2010. (English)
  • Bojana Piškur, et al. (eds.), This Is All Film: Experimental Film in Yugoslavia 1951-1991 / Vse to je film: Eksperimentalni film v Jugoslaviji 1951-1991, Ljubljana: Museum of Modern Art, 2010, 154 pp. (English)/(Slovenian)
  • Bruno Di Marino, Marco Meneguzzo, Andrea La Porta (eds.), Lo sguardo espanso. Cinema d'artista italiano 1912-2012, Silvana Editoriale, 2012. (Italian)
  • François Bovier, Balthazar Lovay, Sylvain Menétrey, Dan Solbach (eds.), Film Implosion! Experimental Cinema in Switzerland, Berlin: Revolver, 2017, 150 pp. [12] [13] [14] (German)/(French)

Anthologies[edit]

  • P. Adams Sitney (ed.), The Avant-garde Film: A Reader of Theory and Criticism, New York: New York University Press, 1978. Contains the often-hard-to-find theoretical writings of experimental filmmakers, beginning in France in the 1920s and continuing internationally through the 1970s.
  • Raffaele Milani (ed.), Il cinema underground americano, Messina Firenze: D'Anna, 1978, 190 pp. (Italian)
  • Paul Hammond (ed.), The Shadow and Its Shadow: Surrealist Writings on the Cinema, trans. & intro. Paul Hammond, London: British Film Institute, 1978; 2nd ed., Edinburgh: Polygon, 1991; 3rd ed., rev. & exp., San Francisco: City Lights, 2000, 225 pp. (English)
  • Norio Nishijima (ed.), Firumu wākushoppu [フィルム ワークショップ], Tokyo: Dagereo Shuppan, 1983, 222 pp. (Japanese)
  • Wheeler Winston-Dixon, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster (eds.), Experimental Cinema: The Film Reader, London and New York: Routledge, 2002, 356 pp. Covers the field of experimental and avant-garde cinema from the 1920s onward, concentrating on movements and varied key figures, with a concentration on issues such as gender, sexuality, and race, as well as the impact of technological innovation. Review: Rees (Screen).
  • Ulrich Wegenast (ed.), Kunst und Film. Texte zum künstlerischen Film, Dresden: PHILO Fine Arts, 2002, 288 pp. (German)
  • Jackie Hatfield (ed.), Experimental Film and Video: An Anthology, forew. Sean Cubitt and Al Rees, Eastleigh: John Libbey, 2006, 302 pp. Forty artists have contributed images, and 25 artists reflect on the diverse critical agendas, contexts, and communities that have affected their practice across the period from the late 1960s to date. [15] [16]
  • Patrícia Mourão, Theo Duarte (eds.), Cinema estrutural, Rio de Janeiro: Aroeira, 2015, 228 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Ann Adachi-Tasch, Go Hirasawa, Julian Ross (eds.), Japanese Expanded Cinema and Intermedia: Critical Texts of the 1960s, intro. Julian Ross, Berlin: Archive Books, 2020, 222 pp. Introduction. Publisher. Editors. Reviews: Pires (CAA), Gómez (Hyperallergic), Macfarlane (Brooklyn Rail).

Monographs, edited books[edit]

1940s-1960s[edit]

Maya Deren, An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film, 1946, Log, PDF.
Stan Brakhage, Metaphors on Vision, 1963, Log, PDF.
Sheldon Renan, An Introduction to the American Underground Film, 1967, IA.
  • Maya Deren, An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film, Yonkers, NY: Alicat Book Shop Press, 1946, 52 pp; repr. in Deren, The Art of Cinema: Selected Essays, forew. George Amberg, New York: Arno Press, 1972, 104 pp; repr. in Deren, The Legend of Maya Deren: A Documentary Biography and Collected Works, v. 1, part 2: Chambers (1942-47), New York: Anthology Film Archives/Film Culture, 1988. The 1972 reprint also contains her essay "Cinematography: the Creative Use of Reality".
    • trans., in Deren, Écrits sur l'art et le cinéma, trans. Éric Alloi and Julie Beaulieu, Paris: Paris expérimental, 2004, 120 pp. Also contains a translation of "The Creative Use of Cinematography as the Reality" (1960). [17] [18] (French)
    • trans., in Deren, Choregraphie für eine Kamera. Schriften zum Film, eds. Jutta Hercher, Ute Holl, Kathrin Reichel, Kira Stein and Petra Wolff, trans. Susanne Amatosero, Ute Holl and Christine Noll-Brinckmann, Hamburg: Material-Verlag, 1995. (German)
    • trans., in Deren, El universo dereniano: textos fundamentales de la cineasta Maya Deren, intro., ed. & trans. Carolina Martínez López, Cuenca: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 2015. (Spanish)
    • trans., in Deren, Ma ya.de lun lun dian ying [玛雅.德伦论电影], Chang chun: Ji lin chu ban ji tuan, 2015. (Chinese)
  • Frank Stauffacher (ed.), Art in Cinema: A Symposium on the Avantgarde Film, Together with Program Notes and References for Series One of Art in Cinema, San Francisco: Art in Cinema Society: San Francisco Museum of Art, 1947, 104 pp; repr., New York: Arno Press, 1968, 104 pp. [19]
  • Peter Weiss, Avantgardefilm, Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1956, 147 pp. [20] (Swedish)
    • Avantgarde Film, trans. Beat Mazenauer, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1995, 207 pp. (German)
  • Cinema Now: Stan Brakhage, John Cage, Jonas Mekas, Stan Vanderbeek, eds. Hector Currie and Michael Porte, University of Cincinnati Press, 1968, 28 pp. Transcript of a discussion among filmmakers and members of the Film as Art and Communication class at the University of Cincinnati, which took place in April 1967.
  • Parker Tyler, Underground Film: A Critical History, New York: Grove Press, 1969, 249+[32] pp; London: Secker & Warburg, 1969, 249+[32] pp; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974, 240+[16] pp; repr., intro. J. Hoberman, afterw. Charles Boultenhouse, New York: Da Capo Press, 1995, 265+[16] pp.

1970s[edit]

Gene Youngblood, Expanded Cinema, 1970, Log.
Annette Michelson (ed.), Artforum: Special Issue on Film (September 1971), PDF.
P. Adams Sitney, Visionary Film: the American Avant-Garde, 1974ff, Log.
Amos Vogel, Film as a Subversive Art, 1974. PDF.
Peter Gidal (ed.), Structural Film Anthology, 1976, Log, PDF.
Film as Film: Formal Experiment in Film, 1910-1975, 1979, Log, PDF.
  • Gene Youngblood, Expanded Cinema, intro. R. Buckminster Fuller, New York: Dutton, 1970, 432+[6] pp; 50th anniv.ed., Fordham University Press, 2020.
    • Cine expandido, Buenos Aires: Eduntref, 2012, 456 pp. [21] (Spanish)
    • Expanded cinema, trans. Pier Luigi Capucci and Simonetta Fadda, Bologna: CLUEB, 2013, xvi+388 pp. (Italian)
  • Birgit Hein, Film im Underground. Von seinen Anfangen bis zum Unabhangigen Kino, Frankfurt/Berlin/Vienna: Ullstein, 1971. (German)
  • David Curtis, Experimental Cinema: A Fifty Year Evolution, London, Studio Vista, 1971. [22]
  • Jonas Mekas, Movie Journal: The Rise of New American Cinema, 1959-1971, New York: Macmillan, 1972, 434 pp; 2nd ed., forew. Peter Bogdanovich, intro. Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker, Columbia University Press, 2016, 496 pp. A collection of the columns written for the Village Voice beginning in 1958 under the title "Movie Journal". Review: Everleth (UFJ 2007).
    • Ciné-Journal: Un nouveau cinéma américain (1959-1971), trans. Dominique Noguez, Paris: Paris expérimental, 1992, 400 pp. [23] (French)
  • Gottfried Schlemmer (ed.), Avantgardistischer Film 1951-1971, Theorie, Munich: Hanser, 1973. (German)
  • P. Adams Sitney, Visionary Film: the American Avant-Garde, Oxford University Press, 1974, xii+452 pp; 2nd ed., exp., as Visionary Film: the American Avant-Garde, 1943-1978, Oxford University Press, 1979, xiv+463 pp; 3rd ed., exp., as Visionary Film: the American Avant-Garde, 1943-2000, Oxford University Press, 2002, xvi+462 pp.
    • Le cinéma visionnaire: l'Avant-garde américaine 1943-2000, trans. Pip Chodorov and Christian Lebrat, Paris: Paris expérimental, 2002, 448 pp. [26] (French)
    • Sigak yonghwa: 20-segi Miguk abanggarudo yonghwa, trans. Tong-hyon Pak, Seoul: Pyongsari, 2005, 560 pp. (Korean)
  • Hans Scheugl, Ernst Schmidt jr., Eine Subgeschichte des Films. Lexikon des Avantgarde-, Experimental- und Undergroundfilms, Band 1 und 2, Frankurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1974. (German)
  • Jean Mitry, Le Cinema Experimental: Histoire et Perspectives, Paris: Seghers, 1974. (French)
    • Storia del cinema sperimentale, trans. Giulio Stocchi and Carole Aghion, Milan: Mazzotta, 1971; 2nd ed., 1977; repr., Bologna: CLUEB, 2006, vi+217 pp. (Italian)
  • Standish Lawder, The Cubist Cinema, New York University Press, 1975, 265 pp, OL. Reviews: Reveaux (Film Q), Chin (PAJ).
  • Stephen Dwoskin, Film is ...: The International Free Cinema, London: Owen, 1975.
  • P. Adams Sitney (ed.), The Essential Cinema: Essays on the Films in the Collection of Anthology Film Archives, New York: Anthology Film Archives, 1975. Essays by filmmakers and scholars of the avant-garde, written with a wide range of approaches ranging from the theoretical to the purely personal, intended to reinforce appreciation of the films chosen by the archive for inclusion in its Essential Cinema Collection.
  • Viktoria Hradská, Česká avantgarda a film, Prague: Čs. filmový ústav, 1976. (Czech)
  • Malcolm Le Grice, Abstract Film and Beyond, MIT Press, 1977.
  • Dominique Noguez, Éloge du cinéma expérimental: Definitions, Jalons, Perspectives, Paris: Paris expérimental and Centre Georges Pompidou, 1979; 3rd ed., 2010. (French) [27]

1980s[edit]

Hollis Frampton, Circles of Confusion: Film/Photography/Video Texts 1968-1981, 1983, Log, PDF.
  • Ulrich Gregor (ed.), The German Experimental Film of the Seventies, Munich: Goethe-Institut, 1980.
  • Inez Hedges, Languages of Revolt: Dada and Surrealist Literature and Film, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1983.
  • Andere Avant Garde, Linz: Gutenberg, 1984. (German)
  • Jairo Ferreira, Cinema de Invenção, Sao Paulo: Editora Max Limonad, 1986. [28] (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Helge Krarup, Carl Norrested, Eksperimentalfilm i Danmark, Copenhagen: Borgen, 1986. (Danish)
  • Stan Brakhage, Film at Wit's End: Eight Avant-garde Filmmakers, Kingston, N.Y.: Documentext, 1989.
  • Ingo Petzke (ed.), Das Experimentalfilm-Handbuch, Frankfurt am Main: Deutsches Filminstitut, 1989, 385 pp. (German) [29]
  • Marcin Giżycki, Walka o film artystyczny w mie̜dzywojennej Polsce, Warsaw: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1989, 262+[32] pp. (Polish)
  • Eduard Ditschek, Politisches Engagement und Medienexperiment: Theater und Film der Russischen und Deutschen Avantgarde der Zwanziger Jahre, Tübingen: Narr, 1989, 306 pp. TOC. (German)

1990s[edit]

  • P. Adams Sitney, Modernist Montage: The Obscurity of Vision in Cinema and Literature, New York: Columbia University Press, 1990, x+250+[16] pp.
  • Lauren Rabinovitz, Points of Resistance: Women, Power & Politics in the New York Avant-garde Cinema, 1943-71, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991, xi+250 pp; 2nd ed., 2003, xviii+252 pp. [31]
  • Stanislav Ulver, Západní filmová avantgarda, Prague: ČFÚ, 1991. (Czech)
  • Frederique Devaux, Le cinéma Lettriste: 1951-1991, Paris: Paris expérimental, 1992. (French) Publisher.
  • Scott MacDonald, Avant-garde Film: Motion Studies, Cambridge University Press, 1993.
  • Image Forum, Japanese Experimental Film & Video 1955–1994, Osaka: Kirin Plaza Osaka, 1994.
  • Germaine Dulac, Écrits sur le cinéma, 1919-1937, ed. Prosper Hillairet, Paris: Paris expérimental, 1994, 225 pp. Anthology of Dulac's writings with contextual essay. [32] (French)
  • James Peterson, Dreams of Chaos, Visions of Order: Understanding the American Avante-garde Cinema, Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1994.
  • Holger Wilmesmeier, Deutsche Avantgarde und Film: Die Filmmatinee "Der absolute film" (3. und 10. Mai 1925), 1994, 220 pp. (German)
  • Jan-Christopher Horak (ed.), Lovers of Cinema: The First American Film Avant-garde, 1919-1945, Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. [33]
  • Rudolf E. Kuenzli (ed.), Dada and Surrealist Film, MIT Press, 1996.
  • Marcin Giżycki, Awangarda wobec kina: film w kręgu polskiej awangardy artystycznej dwudziestolecia międzywojennego, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Małe, 1996, 142 pp. [34] [35] (Polish)
  • Karin Fritsche, Claus Löser (eds.), Gegenbilder - Filmische Subversion in der DDR 1976-1989, Berlin: Janus Press, 1996. [36], Review. (German)
  • Christian Lebrat, Entre les images, Paris: Paris expérimental, 1997, 100 pp. (French) [37]
  • Il cinema d'avanguardia: 1910-1930, Venezia: Marsilio, 1997. (Italian)
  • Wheeler W. Dixon, The Exploding Eye: A Re-Visionary History of 1960s American Experimental Cinema, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.
  • Robert A. Haller (ed.), First Light, New York: Anthology Film Archives, 1998, 108 pp.
  • Beatriz Sarlo Sabajanes, La maquina cultural: maestras, traductores y vanguardistas, Buenos Aires: Ariel, 1998. (Spanish)
  • Scott MacDonald, A Critical Cinema: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers, 5 vols, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988–2005. Vol. 2, Vol. 5. Five volumes of in-depth, perceptive, enlightening interviews with a multitude of filmmakers offer a veritable history of the field. The author’s overriding concern is with experimental cinema as a form of critique of conventional media.
  • A. L. Rees, A History of Experimental Film and Video: From Canonical Avant-garde to Contemporary British Practice, London: British Film Institute, 1999, viii+152+[32] pp; 2nd ed., Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 208 pp.
    • Jikken eizō no rekishi eiga to bideo: kihanteki abangyarudo kara gendai eikoku deno eizō jissen [実験映像の歴史:映画とビデオ : 規範的アヴァンギャルドから現代英国での映像実践], Kyoto: Kōyōshobō, 2010. (Japanese)
    • Shi yan dian ying shi yu lu xiang shi [实验电影史与录像史], Changchun: Ji lin chu ban ji tuan you xian ze ren gong si, 2011, 210 pp. (Chinese)
    • 험영화와 비디오의 역사 : 정통 아방가르드부터 현대 영국 예술의 실천까지, 2014. (Korean)
  • Bruno Di Marino, Sguardo inconscio azione: cinema sperimentale e underground a Roma: 1965-1975, Rome: Lithos, 1999. (Italian)

2000s[edit]

R. Bruce Elder, Harmony and Dissent: Film and Avant-garde Art Movements in the Early Twentieth Century, 2008, Log.
P. Adams Sitney, Eyes Upside Down: Visionary Filmmakers and the Heritage of Emerson, 2008, Log.
  • Joan M Minguet Batllori, Cinema, modernitat i avantguarda (1920-1936), Valencia: E. Climent, 2000. (Spanish)
  • Barbara Wilinsky, Sure Seaters: The Emergence of Art House Cinema, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
  • Bruce Posner (ed.), Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1893-1941, New York: Black Thistle Press, and New York: Anthology Film Archives, 2001.
  • Hans Scheugl, Erweitertes Kino. Die Wiener Filme der 60er Jahre, Vienna: Triton, 2002. (German)
  • Nina Danino, Michael Maziere (eds.), The Undercut reader: critical writings on artists' film and video, London/New York: Wallflower, 2003.
  • Maurice Lemaitre, 1967-1969, le cafe-cinema Lemaitre : suivi de Huit filmes lettristes, Paris: Paris expérimental, 2003. (French)
  • Nicky Hamlyn, Film Art Phenomena, London: British Film Institute, 2003, viii+200 pp. Ch 4. Reviews: Rees (Screen), Conomos (Screening the Past).
  • Anna Abrahams, Mariska Graveland, Erwin van 't Hart, Peter van Hoof, MM2. Experimental film in the Netherlands since 1960, Amsterdam: Filmbank & De Balie, 2004, 286 pp. [39]
  • David E. James, The Most Typical Avant-garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2005, 548 pp. Review.
  • Clayton Patterson (ed.), Captured: A Film & Video History of the Lower East Side, New York: Seven Stories Press, 2005, 554 pp. [40]
  • Paul Arthur, A Line of Sight: American Avant-Garde Film Since 1965, University of Minnesota Press, 2005. [41]
  • François Albera, L’Avant-garde au cinéma, Paris: Armand Colin, 2005. (French)
  • Paul G. Pickowicz, Yingjin Zhang (eds.), From Underground to Independent: Alternative Film Culture in Contemporary China, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.
  • Jacques Aumont, Moderne? Comment le cinéma est devenu le plus singulier des arts, Paris: Cahiers du Cinéma, 2007. (French)
  • Noël Burch, De la Beauté des latrines: pour réhabiliter le sens au cinéma et ailleurs, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2007. (French)
  • Alexander Graf, Dietrich Scheunemann (eds.), Avant-garde Film, Rodopi, 2007. Result of a research project at the University of Edinburgh that aims to connect the history of avant-garde film to the wider avant-garde in literature and art. It establishes a continuum between the contemporary moving image and the classical experimental film that preceded it from the 1920s onward.
  • Łukasz Ronduda, Florian Zeyfang (eds.), 1,2,3... Avant-Gardes: Film/Art between Experiment and Archive, Warsaw: Centre for Contemporary Art, and Berlin/New York: Sternberg, 2007. [44] (English)/(German)
  • Randall Halle, Reinhild Steingroever (eds.), After the Avant-Garde: German and Austrian Experimental Film, Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2008. [45]
  • Christian Lebrat, Cinéma radical: dimensions du cinéma expérimental et d’avant-garde, Paris: Paris Expérimental, 2008, 182 pp. Review: Olivesi (QdC). (French)
    • Radical Cinema, trans. Anna Doyle, et al., Paris: Paris Expérimental, 2020.
  • Paul Young, Paul Duncan (eds.), Art Cinema, Taschen, 2009, 192 pp. [47]
    • La cinéma expérimental, Taschen, 2009, 192 pp. (French) [48]
  • S. Buchmann, H. Draxler, S. Geene (eds.), Film, Avantgarde, Biopolitik, Vienna: Schlebrügge, 2009, 428 pp. [49] (German)

2010s[edit]

  • Peter Tscherkassky (ed.), Film Unframed: A History of Austrian Avant-Garde Cinema, Vienna: Synema, 2012, 368 pp. [52]
  • William E.B. Verrone, The Avant-Garde Feature Film: A Critical History, Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012, 222 pp.
  • Adriano Aprà (ed.), Fuori norma. La via sperimentale del cinema italiano, Marsilio, 2013, 208 pp. (Italian)
  • Martin Čihák, Ponorná řeka kinematografie, Prague: NAMU, 2013, 304 pp. Based on dissertation Skladebné postupy filmových avantgard (2004). Excerpt. Publisher. Reviews: Hudec (Kino Ikon), Střeláková (Dokrevue), Blažek (IndieFilm), Meixner (25fps). (Czech)
  • Ara Osterweil, Flesh Cinema: The Corporeal Turn in American Avant-Garde Film, Manchester University Press, 2014, 304 pp. [54]
  • Božidar Zečević, Srpska avangarda i film 1920-1932, Belgrade: Akademski filmski centar/Dom kulture Studentski grad, 2014, 390 pp. (Serbian)
  • Albert Alcoz, Alberto Cabrera Bernal (eds.), Angular 1, trans. Mattea Cussel, Angular, 2014, 82 pp. Incl. DVD with 13 films (122 min). [55] [56] (Spanish)/(English)
  • François Bovier, Adeena Mey (eds.), Cinéma exposé – Films d'artistes, art vidéo et exposition d’images en mouvement / Exhibited Cinema: Exhibiting Artists' Films, Video Art and Moving Image, Dijon: Les Presses du réel, 2015, 224 pp. [60] (French)/(English)
  • Jeffrey Babcock, Cecilia Dino, Séances: Re-wiring Images in the Amsterdam Underground, Amsterdam, 2016. [61]
  • George Bagdasarov, Alexandra Moralesová, et al., Buenos Aires Experiment, Prague: Akademie múzických umění v Praze, 2016, 162 pp. TOC, Excerpt. [62]. Review: Križková (Kapitál/Kinečko). (Czech)
    • Buenos Aires Experiment, Prague: AMU – Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, 2017, 162 pp. Excerpt. [63] (English)
  • Peter Gidal, Flare Out: Aesthetics 1966-2016, eds. Mark Webber and Peter Gidal, The Visible Press, 2016, 288 pp. A collection of essays by Peter Gidal on film, art and aesthetics. Response: Walley (World Picture). [64]
  • Albert Alcoz, Resonancias fílmicas: el sonido en el cine estructural (1960-1981), Santander: Shangrila Textos Aparte, 2017, 358 pp. Publisher. (Spanish)
  • Jesse Lerner, Luciano Piazza (eds.), Ism, Ism, Ism: Experimental Cinema in Latin America / Ismo, Ismo, Ismo: Cine experimental en America Latina, University of California Press, 2017, 400 pp. Publisher. (English)/(Spanish)
  • François Bovier (ed.), Early Video and Experimental Film Networks: French-Speaking Switzerland in 1974: A Case for "Minor History", Lausanne: ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne, 2017, 252 pp. [65] [66]
  • Érik Bullot, Le film et son double. Boniment, ventriloquie, performativité, Dijon: Les Presses du réel, 2017, 208 pp. Introduction. [67] (French)
  • Érik Bullot (ed.), Du film performatif, Dijon: Les Presses du réel, 2018, 265 pp. [68] (French)
  • Gonzalo de Lucas (ed.), Xcèntric Cinema: Conversations on the Creative Process and the Filmic Vision, Barcelona: CCCB, 2018, 311 pp. With DVD. [70] [71]
  • Olga Moskatova, Male am Zelluloid. Zum relationalen Materialismus im kameralosen Film, Bielefeld: transcript, 2019, 390 pp. Based on dissertation from the Berlin Universität der Künste, 2016. [73] (German)
  • Erika Balsom, Lucy Reynolds, Sarah Perks (eds.), Artists' Moving Image in Britain Since 1989, Yale University Press, 2019, 544 pp. Publisher. [74]
  • Seth Howes, Moving Images on the Margins: Experimental Film in Late Socialist East Germany, Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2019, 280 pp. Publisher. Reviews: Ward (Stud Eur Cinema), Smith (German Stud Rev), Heiduschke (German Hist), Fritzsch (ArtMargins). [75] [76]

2020s[edit]

  • David Curtis, Steve McQueen, Artists' Film, London: Thames & Hudson, 2021, 340 pp. Publisher.
  • Laura A. Frahm, Design in Motion: Film Experiments at the Bauhaus, MIT Press (Leonardo), 2022, 428 pp. Publisher.
  • Elio Della Noce, Lucas Murari (eds.), Expanded nature: écologies du cinéma expérimental, Paris: Light Cone, 2022, 336 pp. Publisher. [79] (French)
  • Erika Balsom, Hila Peleg (eds.), Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image, MIT Press, 2022, 320 pp. Publisher. Exhibition.
  • Sophia Satchell-Baeza, Sensual Laboratories: Light Shows, Experimental Film, and Psychedelic Art, forew. Jarvis Cocker, Strange Attractor Press, 2025, 200 pp. Distributor.

Journal issues[edit]

Selected essays, theses[edit]

  • Michael Zryd, "A Report on Canadian Experimental Film Institutions, 1980–2000", in North of Everything: English Canadian Cinema Since 1980, eds. William Beard and Jerry White, Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2002, pp 392-401.
  • Kathryn Ramey, "Economics and Culture of the Film Avant-Garde: Networks and Strategies in the Circulation of Films, Ideas and People", Jump Cut 52, Summer 2010.
  • Ayanna Dozier, Mnemonic Aberrations: Black Feminism and the Emergence of a Counter-Poetics of Rhythm in Experimental Short Films (1968-Present), Montréal: McGill University, 2020. PhD dissertation.

Encyclopedic entries[edit]

"Experimental film (avant-garde; fine-art film)", in The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in Art, ed. Gerald W.R. Ward, Oxford University Press, 2008, pp 213-215.
Jeffrey Skoller, "Experimentalism: Film and Video", in Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, 2nd ed., ed. Michael Kelly, Oxford University Press, 2014, pp 547-551.

Mailing lists[edit]

Documentary films[edit]

  • Die kritische Masse – Film im Underground, Hamburg '68, dir. Christian Bau, 1998, 110 min. [83]
  • Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film, dir. Pip Chodorov, 2012, 82 min. [84]

Bibliographies[edit]

See also[edit]