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==Literature==
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==Resources==
[[Image:Brakhage_Stan_Metaphors_on_Vision.jpg|thumb|258px|Stan Brakhage, ''Metaphors on Vision'', 1963. [[Media:Brakhage_Stan_Metaphors_on_Vision.pdf|Download]].]]
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[[Image:Renan_Sheldon_An_Introduction_to_the_American_Underground_Film.jpg|thumb|258px|Sheldon Renan, ''An Introduction to the American Underground Film'', 1967. [http://archive.org/details/introductiontoam00rena View online].]]
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* [http://www.ubu.com/film/ UbuWeb: Film & Video], an excellent archive of experimental film and video.
[[Image:Youngblood_Gene_Expanded_Cinema.jpg|thumb|258px|Gene Youngblood, ''Expanded Cinema'', 1970. [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=218 Download].]]
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* [http://www.eai.org Electronic Arts Intermix], a resource for video and media art, founded in 1971.
[[Image:Michelson_Annette_ed_Artforum_Special_Film_Issue_September_1971.jpg|thumb|258px|Annette Michelson (ed.), ''Artforum'': Special Issue on Film (September 1971). [[Media:Michelson_Annette_ed_Artforum_Special_Film_Issue_September_1971.pdf|Download]].]]
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* [http://www.luxonline.org.uk/ LuxOnline], a web resource for exploring British based artists’ film and video in-depth.
[[Image:Vogel_Amos_Film_as_a_Subversive_Art.jpg|thumb|258px|Amos Vogel, ''Film as a Subversive Art'', 1974. [[Media:Vogel_Amos_Film_as_a_Subversive_Art.pdf|Download]].]]
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** [http://www.luxonline.org.uk/history/ The Luxonline Histories] lists key events, places, people and exhibitions which have contextualised and contributed to the development of artists' film and video from the past century to the current day.
[[Image:Gidal_Peter_ed_Structural_Film_Anthology.jpg|thumb|258px|Peter Gidal (ed.), ''Structural Film Anthology'', 1976. [[Media:Gidal_Peter_ed_Structural_Film_Anthology.pdf|Download]].]]
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* [https://avantgardefilmindex.org/ Avant-Garde Film Index] lists films, archival collections and references for selected filmmakers.
[[Image:Film_as_Film_Formal_Experiment_in_Film_1910-1975.jpg|thumb|258px|''Film as Film: Formal Experiment in Film, 1910-1975'', 1979. [[Media:Film_as_Film_Formal_Experiment_in_Film_1910-1975.pdf|Download]].]]
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* [http://www.visionaryfilm.net Visionary Film: Avant-Garde Cinema / Experimental Film], a web resource founded in 2006.
[[Image:Frampton_Hollis_Circles_of_Confusion_Film_Photography_Video_Texts_1968-1980.jpg|thumb|258px|Hollis Frampton, ''Circles of Confusion: Film/Photography/Video Texts 1968-1981'', 1983. [[Media:Frampton_Hollis_Circles_of_Confusion_Film_Photography_Video_Texts_1968-1980.pdf|Download]].]]
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* [http://www.iotacenter.org/ The iotaCenter], a resource on visual music, founded in 1994.
[[Image:Elder_R_Bruce_Harmony_and_Dissent.jpg|thumb|258px| R. Bruce Elder, ''Harmony and Dissent: Film and Avant-garde Art Movements in the Early Twentieth Century'', 2008. [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=9777 Download].]]
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* [http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/ Center for Visual Music].
[[Image:Sitney_P_Adams_Eyes_Upside_Down.jpg|thumb|258px|P. Adams Sitney, ''Eyes Upside Down: Visionary Filmmakers and the Heritage of Emerson'', 2008. [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=488 Download].]]
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* [http://www.movingimagesource.us/research/guide/145 Moving Image Source's Research Guide on Experimental and Avant-garde]
===Journals and Magazines===
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* [http://www.expcinema.com Experimental Cinema], a news and resources on experimental film.
* [[Kino-fot]], edited by [[Aleksei Gan]] in six issues, Moscow, 1922-23.
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* ''[https://www.nga.gov/features/experimental-cinema-in-eastern-europe.html Artists, Amateurs, Alternative Spaces: Experimental Cinema in Eastern Europe, 1960–1990]'', eds. Joanna Raczynska and Ksenya Gurshtein, Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2014.
* ''f.a.'' [Art Film], *1937, journal of the [[SAF]] co-operative, edited by [[Franciszka and Stefan Themerson]].
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* [http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/flicker.pl Flicker] provides links to sites about contemporary and historical experimental cinema.
* ''Film Culture'', New York, 1955–1996.
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20141217012850/http://www.cinovid.org/ cinovid], database for experimental film and video art. Discontinued in 2014.
** Adams P. Sitney (ed.), ''Film Culture Reader'', Cooper Square Press, 1970; 2nd Ed., 2000.
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* [https://gallery.98bowery.com/exhibition/no-wave-and-independent-film-1976-1985/ No Wave and Independent Film , An Exhibition of Photographs and Ephemera], by Marc H. Miller, 2013. [https://evgrieve.com/2013/09/no-wave-films-1976-1985.html]
** UbuWeb, Anthology Film Archives (eds.), [http://www.ubu.com/papers/film_culture.html "Selections from ''Film Culture'' Magazine, 1955-1996"].
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* [http://sites.google.com/site/haltered/experimentalcinemaresources more].
* [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=5987 ''Cinim'' magazine], 3 issues, 1967-1969.
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* ''[http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/ Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media]''. Founded in 1974, 50+ issues. Edited by John Hess, Chuck Kleinhans and Julia Lesage.
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==Publications==
* ''[http://www.mfj-online.org/ Millennium Film Journal]'', published biannually since 1978. Currently edited by Grahame Weinbren and Kenneth White.
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''Publications by & about individual filmmakers are listed on their respective [[#Pages|pages]].''
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===Journals, magazines===
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* ''[[Kinofon|Kinofon: revija za filmsku kulturu]]'', 12 numbers, eds. [[Branko Ve Poljanski]] and [[Dragan Aleksić]], Zagreb, 1921-1922. {{cr}}
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* ''[[Kino-fot|Kino-fot: zhurnal kinematografii i fotografii]]'', 6 numbers, ed. [[Aleksei Gan]], Moscow: Aleksei Gan, 1922-1923. {{ru}}
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* ''[[L'Art cinématographique]]'', 8 numbers, Paris: Félix Alcan, 1926-1931. {{fr}}
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* ''[[Close Up]]'', ed. Kenneth Macpherson, Territet/CH (1927-30) and London (1928-33): Pool, 1927-1933. Monthly (1927-30), quarterly (1931-33). {{en}}
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* ''[http://archive.org/details/experim15cine Experimental Cinema]'', Philadelphia, PA: Cinema Crafters of America, 1930-34. Monthly.
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* ''[[Mouvement|Mouvement: cinématographie, littérature, musique, publicité]]'', 3 numbers, ed. Maurice Aubergé, 1933. {{fr}}
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* ''[[Ekran|Ekran: měsíčník pro moderní film a fotografii]]'', 1 issue, ed. František Kalivoda, Brno: Vladislav Binder, 1934. {{cz}},{{de}}
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* ''f.a.'' [Art Film], eds. [[Franciszka and Stefan Themerson]], 1937-?. Journal of the [[SAF]] co-operative.
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* ''Film Culture'', New York, 1955-1996.
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** ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=19614 Film Culture Reader]'', ed. P. Adams Sitney, New York: Praeger, 1970, viii+438 pp; repr., New York: Cooper Square Press, 2000.
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** UbuWeb, Anthology Film Archives (eds.), [http://www.ubu.com/papers/film_culture.html "Selections from ''Film Culture'' Magazine, 1955-1996"], n.d.
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* [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=5987 ''Cinim''], 3 issues, 1967-1969.
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* ''[http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/ Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media]'', 56+ issues, eds. John Hess, Chuck Kleinhans and Julia Lesage, since 1974.
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* ''[http://www.mfj-online.org/ Millennium Film Journal]'', eds. Grahame Weinbren and Kenneth White, since 1978. Published biannually.
 
* ''[http://www.undergroundfilmjournal.com/ Underground Film Journal]''.
 
* ''[http://www.undergroundfilmjournal.com/ Underground Film Journal]''.
* [http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/collections/periodicals More].
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* ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22654 L'ébouillanté]'', 15 numbers, 1995-1999. Zine published by artist-run film labs. {{fr}}
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* ''Found Footage Magazine'', since 2015. [http://foundfootagemagazine.com/en/] {{es}},{{en}}
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* ''[https://www.losexperimentoscine.site/ Los Experimentos]'', Buenos Aires, since 2022. Web magazine devoted to Latin American cinema, and experimental cinema from Latin America. {{es}}
  
===Catalogues and Brochures===
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* [http://mediahistoryproject.org/ more], [http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/collections/periodicals more].
* Birgit Hein, Wulf Herzogenrath, ''Film als Film: 1910 bis heute'', Cologne, 1977. (in German)
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* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=10154 Film as Film: Formal Experiment in Film, 1910-1975]'', London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1979, 152 pp.  
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===Exhibition catalogues and brochures===
* Dominique Noguez, ''Trente ans de cinéma expérimental en France, 1950-1980'', Paris: A.R.C.E.F., 1982, 117 pp. (in French) [http://www.paris-experimental.asso.fr/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=107]
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* 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. (in Spanish)
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* ''[https://archive.org/details/historyofamerica00amer_0 A History of the American Avant-garde Cinema: A Film Exhibition]'', New York: American Federation of Arts, 1976, 176 pp. {{en}}
* Miklós Peternák (ed.), ''[http://catalog.c3.hu/mediatortenet/PDF/FILMMUVESZET_WEB.pdf Film / Művészet: A magyar kísérleti film története]''. Budapest, 1983. (in Hungarian)
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* Prosper Hillairet, Christian Lebrat, Patrice Rollet, ''Paris vu par le cinéma d'avant-garde (1923-1983)'', Paris: Paris expérimental, 1985. (in French) [http://www.paris-experimental.asso.fr/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=80]
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* 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. {{de}}
* Paul de Mol, Nelly Voorhuis (eds.), ''Het Experiment in de Nederlandse Film'', Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 1985. (in Dutch)
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** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=10154 Film as Film: Formal Experiment in Film, 1910-1975]'', London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1979, 152 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.
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* Gerald O’Grady, Bruce Posner (eds.), ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=10155 Articulated Light: The Emergence of Abstract Film in America]'', Boston: Harvard Film Archive & Anthology Film Archives, 1995, 16 pp.  
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* Dominique Noguez, ''Trente ans de cinéma expérimental en France, 1950-1980'', Paris: A.R.C.E.F., 1982, 117 pp. [http://www.paris-experimental.asso.fr/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=107] {{fr}}
* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=2614 Shoot Shoot Shoot: The First Decade of the London Film-Makers’ Co-operative and British Avant-Garde Film 1966-1976]'', London: Lux, 2002.
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* Gerda Cammaer (ed.), ''Placing spaces, spacing places: Canadian experimental films & videos of the 1990s'', Halifax, N.S.: Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, 2003.
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* 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. {{es}}
* Esther Schlicht, Max Hollein (eds.), [[Media:Schlicht_Esther_Hollein_Max_eds_Zelluloid_Camera_Less_Film_Film_ohne_Kamera.pdf|Zelluloid: Camera Less Film / Celluloid: Film ohne Kamera]], Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle, 2010. (in English/German)
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* Anna Abrahams, Claartje Opdam, Mariska Graveland, ''film3 [‘kju:bIk fIlm]'', Amsterdam: EYE Film Institute Netherlands & Amsterdam University Press, 2010, 390 pp. (in English/Dutch) [http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/8709701]
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* Judit Lorányi, Miklós Peternák (eds.), ''[[Media:Film muveszet a magyar kiserleti film tortenete 1983.pdf|Film/művészet: a magyar kisérleti film története]]'', Budapest: Budapest Galéria, 1983, 56 pp. {{hu}}
* 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.
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* 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'', catalogue, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, 2010, 154 pp.  
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* Prosper Hillairet, Christian Lebrat, Patrice Rollet, ''Paris vu par le cinéma d'avant-garde (1923-1983)'', Paris: Paris expérimental, 1985. [http://www.paris-experimental.asso.fr/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=80] {{fr}}
* Bruno Di Marino, Marco Meneguzzo, Andrea La Porta (eds.), ''Lo sguardo espanso. Cinema d'artista italiano 1912-2012'', Silvana Editoriale, 2012. (in Italian)
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* Susanne Pfeffer (ed.), ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=9962 You Killed Me First: The Cinema of Transgression]'', Berlin: KW Institute of Contemporary Art, and Cologne: Walther Konig, 2012. (in English/German)
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* Paul de Mol, Nelly Voorhuis (eds.), ''Het Experiment in de Nederlandse Film'', Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 1985. {{nl}}
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* 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}}
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* 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}}
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* Gerald O’Grady, Bruce Posner (eds.), ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=10155 Articulated Light: The Emergence of Abstract Film in America]'', Cambridge, MA: Harvard Film Archive, and New York: Anthology Film Archives, 1995, 16 pp. {{en}}
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* Yann Beauvais, Jean-Michel Bouhours (eds.), ''[[Media:Monter_Sampler_L_echantillonnage_generalise_2000.pdf|Monter/Sampler: L'échantillonnage généralisé]]'', Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2000, 160 pp. {{fr}}
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* Nicole Brenez, Christian Lebrat (eds.), ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22255 Jeune, dure et pure! Une histoire du cinéma d'avant-garde et expérimental en France]'', Paris: Cinémathèque française, and Milan: Mazzotta, 2001, 591 pp. [http://gdr.idhec.free.fr/oleary/oldatas/sensesofcinema_jeune.html English trans. of Introduction]. [http://web.archive.org/web/20140418102547/http://sensesofcinema.com/issue/6/retrospective-jeune-dure-et-pure/] {{fr}}
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* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=2614 Shoot Shoot Shoot: The First Decade of the London Film-Makers’ Co-operative and British Avant-Garde Film 1966-1976]'', London: LUX, 2002. {{en}}
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* 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, [https://archive.org/details/canadianexperime0000unse IA]. [http://msvuart.ca/index.php?menid=04/01&mtyp=20&ppid=46&search_categ=1#results] {{en}}
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* Gerda Cammaer (ed.), ''Placing Spaces, Spacing Places: Canadian Experimental Films & Videos of the 1990s'', Halifax, N.S.: Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, 2003, [https://archive.org/details/placingspacesspa0000unse IA]. {{en}}
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* 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. {{fr}}
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* Carolina López (ed.), ''Xcèntric: 45 películas contra dirección'', Barcelona: CCCB, 2006, 176 pp. [https://worldcat.org/oclc/145734182] {{es}}
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* 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. [https://www.cornerhousepublications.org/publications/kinomuseum/] [https://lux.org.uk/kinomuseum-film-video-tate-gallery/]
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* Esther Schlicht, Max Hollein (eds.), [[Media:Schlicht_Esther_Hollein_Max_eds_Zelluloid_Camera_Less_Film_Film_ohne_Kamera.pdf|Zelluloid: Camera Less Film / Celluloid: Film ohne Kamera]], Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle, 2010. {{en}}/{{de}}
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* Anna Abrahams, Claartje Opdam, Mariska Graveland, ''film3 [‘kju:bIk fIlm]'', Amsterdam: EYE Film Institute Netherlands & Amsterdam University Press, 2010, 390 pp. [http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/8709701] {{en}}/{{nl}}
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* 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. {{en}}
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* 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. {{en}}/{{sl}}
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* Alina Ignatova (ed.), ''[http://web.archive.org/web/20120611230327/http://www.mediaartlab.ru/books/Exp_Cin_2011.pdf Expanded Cinema / Расширенное кино]'', Moscow: MediaArtLab, 2011. {{en}}/{{ru}}
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* Alina Streltsova (ed.), ''[http://web.archive.org/web/20130820201602/http://www.mediaartlab.ru/books/mf2012_web.pdf Expanded Cinema 2. Imersions: Towards the Tactile Cinema / Расширенное кино — 2]'', Moscow: MediaArtLab, 2012, 148 pp. {{en}}/{{ru}}
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* Bruno Di Marino, Marco Meneguzzo, Andrea La Porta (eds.), ''Lo sguardo espanso. Cinema d'artista italiano 1912-2012'', Silvana Editoriale, 2012. {{it}}
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* Susanne Pfeffer (ed.), ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=9962 You Killed Me First: The Cinema of Transgression]'', Berlin: KW Institute of Contemporary Art, and Cologne: Walther Konig, 2012. {{en}}/{{de}}
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* François Bovier, Balthazar Lovay, Sylvain Menétrey, Dan Solbach (eds.), ''Film Implosion! Experimental Cinema in Switzerland'', Berlin: Revolver, 2017, 150 pp. [https://eshop.museum-gestaltung.ch/?op=product&id=8043] [http://www.fri-art.ch/index.php/de/editionen/film-implosion] [http://www.museum-gestaltung.ch/de/ausstellungen/rueckblick/2017/film-implosion/] {{de}}/{{fr}}
  
 
===Anthologies===
 
===Anthologies===
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* Peter Gidal (ed.), ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=2612 Structural Film Anthology]'', London: British Film Institute, 1976.
 
* Peter Gidal (ed.), ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=2612 Structural Film Anthology]'', London: British Film Institute, 1976.
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* 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.
 
* 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.
* Miklós Peternák (ed.), ''[http://catalog.c3.hu/mediatortenet/PDF/FILM.pdf F:I.L.M. A magyar avantgarde film története és dokumentumai''], Budapest: Jelenkor, 1991. (in Hungarian)
 
* Wheeler Winston-Dixon, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster (eds.), ''Experimental Cinema: The Film Reader'', London and New York: Routledge, 2002. 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.
 
* Jackie Hatfield (ed.), ''Experimental Film and Video: An Anthology'', Eastleigh: John Libbey Pub., 2006.
 
  
===Books===
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* Raffaele Milani (ed.), ''Il cinema underground americano'', Messina Firenze: D'Anna, 1978, 190 pp. {{it}}
''Monographs on individual filmmakers are included in their respective [[#Pages|pages]].''
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* 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, 1947.
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* 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; [[Media:Hammond Paul ed The_Shadow_and_Its_Shadow_Surrealist_Writings_on_the_Cinema 3rd ed 2000.pdf|3rd ed., rev. & exp.]], San Francisco: City Lights, 2000, 225 pp. {{en}}
* Roger Manvell, ''[http://archive.org/details/experimentinfilm00unse Experiment in the Film]'', London: Grey Walls Press, 1949.
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* Stan Brakhage, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=7736 Metaphors on Vision]'', Film Culture, 1963. Edited with an Introduction by P. Adams Sitney.
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* Norio Nishijima (ed.), ''Firumu wākushoppu'' [フィルム ワークショップ], Tokyo: Dagereo Shuppan, 1983, 222 pp. {{jp}}
* Sheldon Renan, ''[http://archive.org/details/introductiontoam00rena An Introduction to the American Underground Film]'', New York: Dutton, 1967.
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* Gene Youngblood, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=218 Expanded Cinema]'', New York: Dutton, 1970. With an introduction by R. Buckminster Fuller.
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* 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}}
* Parker Tyler, ''Underground Film: A Critical History'' New York: Grove Press, 1970.
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* Birgit Hein, ''Film im Underground. Von seinen Anfangen bis zum Unabhangigen Kino'', Frankfurt/Berlin/Vienna: Ullstein, 1971. (in German)
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* 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}}
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* 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).
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* Ulrich Wegenast (ed.), ''Kunst und Film. Texte zum künstlerischen Film'', Dresden: PHILO Fine Arts, 2002, 288 pp. {{de}}
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* 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]
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* 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. [https://www.archivebooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Julian-Ross_Situating-Intermedia.pdf Introduction]. [http://www.archivebooks.org/japanese-expanded-cinema-and-intermedia-critical-texts-of-the-1960s/ Publisher]. [https://www.collabjapan.org/expanded-cinema-critical-texts Editors]. Reviews: [http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/3874 Pires] (CAA), [https://hyperallergic.com/595126/ Gómez] (Hyperallergic), [https://brooklynrail.org/2020/12/film/Destination-Out-Cinematic-Illumination-More-Than-Cinema-and-Japanese-Expanded-Cinema-and-Intermedia Macfarlane] (Brooklyn Rail).
 +
 
 +
===Monographs, edited books===
 +
 
 +
====1940s-1960s====
 +
 
 +
[[Image:Deren_Maya_An_Anagram_of_Ideas_on_Art_Form_and_Film.jpg|thumb|350px|Maya Deren, ''An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film'', 1946, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=2665 Log], [[Media:Deren_Maya_An_Anagram_of_Ideas_on_Art_Form_and_Film.pdf|PDF]].]]
 +
 
 +
[[Image:Brakhage_Stan_Metaphors_on_Vision.jpg|thumb|350px|Stan Brakhage, ''Metaphors on Vision'', 1963, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=7736 Log], [[Media:Brakhage_Stan_Metaphors_on_Vision.pdf|PDF]].]]
 +
 
 +
[[Image:Renan_Sheldon_An_Introduction_to_the_American_Underground_Film.jpg|thumb|350px|Sheldon Renan, ''An Introduction to the American Underground Film'', 1967, [http://archive.org/details/introductiontoam00rena IA].]]
 +
 
 +
<div class=twocol>
 +
 
 +
* Maya Deren, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=2665 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). [http://www.paris-experimental.asso.fr/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=50] [http://www.re-voir.com/boutique/product.php?id_product=348&id_lang=1] {{fr}}
 +
** 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. {{de}}
 +
** 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. {{es}}
 +
** 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. {{cn}}
 +
 
 +
* 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. [http://sci-hub.st/10.1080/00119253.1947.10742584]
 +
 
 +
* Roger Manvell (ed.), ''[http://archive.org/details/experimentinfilm00unse Experiment in the Film]'', London: Grey Walls Press, 1949, 285 pp.
 +
 
 +
* Peter Weiss, ''Avantgardefilm'', Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1956, 147 pp. [https://monoskop.org/images/1/11/Andersson_Sundholm_Widding_A_History_of_Swedish_Experimental_Film_Culture_From_Early_Animation_to_Video_Art_no_images.pdf#page=31] {{sw}}
 +
** ''Avantgarde Film'', trans. Beat Mazenauer, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1995, 207 pp. {{de}}
 +
 
 +
* Stan Brakhage, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=7736 Metaphors on Vision]'', ed. & intro. P. Adams Sitney, Film Culture, 1963.  
 +
 
 +
* Sheldon Renan, ''[http://archive.org/details/introductiontoam00rena An Introduction to the American Underground Film]'', New York: Dutton, 1967, 318 pp; 2nd ed. as ''The Underground Film: an Introduction to Its Development in America'', London: Studio Vista, 1967, 318 pp.
 +
 
 +
* ''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.
 +
 
 +
</div>
 +
 
 +
====1970s====
 +
 
 +
[[Image:Youngblood_Gene_Expanded_Cinema.jpg|thumb|350px|Gene Youngblood, ''Expanded Cinema'', 1970, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=218 Log].]]
 +
 
 +
[[Image:Michelson_Annette_ed_Artforum_Special_Film_Issue_September_1971.jpg|thumb|350px|Annette Michelson (ed.), ''Artforum'': Special Issue on Film (September 1971), [[Media:Michelson_Annette_ed_Artforum_Special_Film_Issue_September_1971.pdf|PDF]].]]
 +
 
 +
[[Image:Sitney_P_Adams_Visionary_Film_The_American_Avant-Garde_1943-1978_2nd_ed_1979.jpg|thumb|350px|P. Adams Sitney, ''Visionary Film: the American Avant-Garde'', 1974ff, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=499 Log].]]
 +
 
 +
[[Image:Vogel_Amos_Film_as_a_Subversive_Art.jpg|thumb|350px|Amos Vogel, ''Film as a Subversive Art'', 1974. [[Media:Vogel_Amos_Film_as_a_Subversive_Art.pdf|PDF]].]]
 +
 
 +
[[Image:Gidal_Peter_ed_Structural_Film_Anthology.jpg|thumb|350px|Peter Gidal (ed.), ''Structural Film Anthology'', 1976, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=2612 Log], [[Media:Gidal_Peter_ed_Structural_Film_Anthology.pdf|PDF]].]]
 +
 
 +
[[Image:Film_as_Film_Formal_Experiment_in_Film_1910-1975.jpg|thumb|350px|''Film as Film: Formal Experiment in Film, 1910-1975'', 1979, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=10154 Log], [[Media:Film_as_Film_Formal_Experiment_in_Film_1910-1975.pdf|PDF]].]]
 +
 
 +
<div class=twocol>
 +
 
 +
* Gene Youngblood, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=218 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. [http://eduntref.com.ar/catalogo/cine-expandido/] {{es}}
 +
** ''Expanded cinema'', trans. Pier Luigi Capucci and Simonetta Fadda, Bologna: CLUEB, 2013, xvi+388 pp. {{it}}
 +
 
 +
* Birgit Hein, ''Film im Underground. Von seinen Anfangen bis zum Unabhangigen Kino'', Frankfurt/Berlin/Vienna: Ullstein, 1971. {{de}}
 +
 
 
* David Curtis, ''Experimental Cinema: A Fifty Year Evolution'', London, Studio Vista, 1971. [http://archive.org/details/structuralCinemaDavidCurtis]
 
* David Curtis, ''Experimental Cinema: A Fifty Year Evolution'', London, Studio Vista, 1971. [http://archive.org/details/structuralCinemaDavidCurtis]
* Jonas Mekas, ''Movie Journal: The Rise of the New American Cinema, 1959-1971'', New York: Macmillan, 1972, 434 pp. A collection of the columns written for the Village Voice beginning in 1958 under the title "Movie Journal" by a filmmaker who is also one of the founders of the journal Film Culture (1955–1996), the Film-Maker’s Co-op, and Anthology Film Archives.
+
 
* Gottfried Schlemmer (ed.), ''Avantgardistischer Film 1951-1971, Theorie'', Munich: Hanser, 1973. (in German)
+
* Jonas Mekas, ''[[Media:Mekas_Jonas_Movie_Journal_The_Rise_of_a_New_American_Cinema_1959-1971_1972.pdf|Movie Journal: The Rise of New American Cinema, 1959-1971]]'', New York: Macmillan, 1972, 434 pp; [http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/75bbc772-d614-489a-9b78-3088c3939ea4 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: [http://www.undergroundfilmjournal.com/movie-journal-the-rise-of-the-new-american-cinema-1959-1971/ Everleth] (UFJ 2007).
 +
** ''Ciné-Journal: Un nouveau cinéma américain (1959-1971)'', trans. Dominique Noguez, Paris: Paris expérimental, 1992, 400 pp. [http://www.paris-experimental.asso.fr/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=60] {{fr}}
 +
 
 +
* Gottfried Schlemmer (ed.), ''Avantgardistischer Film 1951-1971, Theorie'', Munich: Hanser, 1973. {{de}}
 +
 
 
* Amos Vogel, ''[[Media:Vogel_Amos_Film_as_a_Subversive_Art.pdf|Film as a Subversive Art]]'', C. T. Editions, 1974. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PduxpGsIGnY&feature=PlayList&p=0918A27EABCC8699&playnext_from=PL&index=0&playnext=1] [http://www.angoleiro.com/subversive_nub/]
 
* Amos Vogel, ''[[Media:Vogel_Amos_Film_as_a_Subversive_Art.pdf|Film as a Subversive Art]]'', C. T. Editions, 1974. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PduxpGsIGnY&feature=PlayList&p=0918A27EABCC8699&playnext_from=PL&index=0&playnext=1] [http://www.angoleiro.com/subversive_nub/]
* Hans Scheugl, Ernst Schmidt jr., ''Eine Subgeschichte des Films. Lexikon des Avantgarde-, Experimental- und Undergroundfilms, Band 1 und 2'', Frankurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1974. (in German)
+
 
* Jean Mitry, ''Le Cinema Experimental: Histoire et Perspectives'', Paris: Seghers, 1974. (in French)
+
* P. Adams Sitney, ''Visionary Film: the American Avant-Garde'', Oxford University Press, 1974, xii+452 pp; 2nd ed., exp., as ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=499 Visionary Film: the American Avant-Garde, 1943-1978]'', Oxford University Press, 1979, xiv+463 pp; 3rd ed., exp., as ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=499 Visionary Film: the American Avant-Garde, 1943-2000]'', Oxford University Press, 2002, xvi+462 pp.
** ''Storia del cinema sperimentale'', Clueb, 2006, 214 pp. (in Italian)
+
** ''Le cinéma visionnaire: l'Avant-garde américaine 1943-2000'', trans. Pip Chodorov and Christian Lebrat, Paris: Paris expérimental, 2002, 448 pp. [http://www.paris-experimental.asso.fr/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=52&Itemid=0] {{fr}}
 +
** ''Sigak yonghwa: 20-segi Miguk abanggarudo yonghwa'', trans. Tong-hyon Pak, Seoul: Pyongsari, 2005, 560 pp. {{ko}}
 +
 
 +
* Hans Scheugl, Ernst Schmidt jr., ''Eine Subgeschichte des Films. Lexikon des Avantgarde-, Experimental- und Undergroundfilms, Band 1 und 2'', Frankurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1974. {{de}}
 +
 
 +
* Jean Mitry, ''Le Cinema Experimental: Histoire et Perspectives'', Paris: Seghers, 1974. {{fr}}
 +
** ''Storia del cinema sperimentale'', trans. Giulio Stocchi and Carole Aghion, Milan: Mazzotta, 1971; 2nd ed., 1977; [[Media:Mitry Jean Storia del cinema sperimentale 2006.pdf|repr.]], Bologna: CLUEB, 2006, vi+217 pp. {{it}}
 +
 
 +
* Standish Lawder, ''The Cubist Cinema'', New York University Press, 1975, 265 pp, [https://archive.org/details/cubistcinema0000lawd OL]. Reviews: [https://sci-hub.st/10.2307/1211605 Reveaux] (Film Q), [https://sci-hub.st/10.2307/3245253 Chin] (PAJ).
 +
** ''[[Media:Lawder_Standish_Il_cinema_cubista 1996.pdf|Il cinema cubista]]'', Costa & Nolan, 1996. {{it}}
 +
 
 
* Stephen Dwoskin, ''Film is ...: The International Free Cinema'', London: Owen, 1975.
 
* 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.
 
* 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. (in Czech)
+
 
 +
* Viktoria Hradská, ''Česká avantgarda a film'', Prague: Čs. filmový ústav, 1976. {{cz}}
 +
 
 
* Malcolm Le Grice, ''Abstract Film and Beyond'', MIT Press, 1977.
 
* Malcolm Le Grice, ''Abstract Film and Beyond'', MIT Press, 1977.
* Dominique Noguez, ''Éloge du cinéma expérimental: Definitions, Jalons, Perspectives'', Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1979; 3rd Edition, 2010. (in French) [http://www.paris-experimental.asso.fr/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=165&Itemid=31]
+
 
 +
* Thanasis Rentzis (Θανάσης Ρεντζής), ''[[Media:Rentzis_Thanasis_Οι_Πρωτοπορίες_στον_κινηματογράφο.pdf|Οι Πρωτοπορίες στον κινηματογράφο]]'', Athens: Kastaniotis [Καστανιώτης], 1978, 31 pp. {{gr}}
 +
 
 +
* Dominique Noguez, ''Éloge du cinéma expérimental: Definitions, Jalons, Perspectives'', Paris: Paris expérimental and Centre Georges Pompidou, 1979; 3rd ed., 2010. {{fr}} [http://www.paris-experimental.asso.fr/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=165&Itemid=31]
 +
 
 +
</div>
 +
 
 +
====1980s====
 +
 
 +
[[Image:Frampton_Hollis_Circles_of_Confusion_Film_Photography_Video_Texts_1968-1980.jpg|thumb|350px|Hollis Frampton, ''Circles of Confusion: Film/Photography/Video Texts 1968-1981'', 1983, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=766 Log], [[Media:Frampton_Hollis_Circles_of_Confusion_Film_Photography_Video_Texts_1968-1980.pdf|PDF]].]]
 +
 
 +
<div class=twocol>
 +
 
 
* Ulrich Gregor (ed.), ''The German Experimental Film of the Seventies'', Munich: Goethe-Institut, 1980.  
 
* Ulrich Gregor (ed.), ''The German Experimental Film of the Seventies'', Munich: Goethe-Institut, 1980.  
* P. Adams Sitney, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=499 Visionary Film: the American Avant-Garde, 1943-2000]'', Oxford University Press, 1974; Third edition, 2002.
+
 
* Martin Walsh, ''The Brechtian aspect of radical cinema'', London: BFI Publishing, 1981.
+
* Martin Walsh, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11658 ''The Brechtian Aspect of Radical Cinema''], London: BFI Publishing, 1981, 136 pp.
* Hollis Frampton, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=766 Circles of Confusion: Film/Photography/Video Texts 1968-1981]'', Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1983, 200 pp. Foreword by Annette Michelson.
+
 
 +
* Hollis Frampton, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=766 Circles of Confusion: Film/Photography/Video Texts 1968-1981]'', forew. Annette Michelson, Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1983, 200 pp.  
 +
 
 
* Inez Hedges, ''Languages of Revolt: Dada and Surrealist Literature and Film'', Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1983.
 
* Inez Hedges, ''Languages of Revolt: Dada and Surrealist Literature and Film'', Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1983.
* ''Andere Avant Garde'', Linz: Gutenberg, 1984. (in German)
+
 
* Maureen Cheryn Turim, ''Abstraction in Avant-garde Films'', Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1985.  
+
* ''Andere Avant Garde'', Linz: Gutenberg, 1984. {{de}}
* Jairo Ferreira, ''Cinema de Invenção'', Sao Paulo: Editora Max Limonad, 1986. (in Portuguese) [http://cinema-de-invencao.blogspot.com/]
+
 
* Helge Krarup, Carl Norrested, ''Eksperimentalfilm i Danmark'', Copenhagen: Borgen, 1986. (in Danish)
+
* Branko Vučićević, ''[[Media:Vucicevic_Branko_Avangardni_film_1895-1939_deo_1_1984.pdf|Avangardni film 1895-1939]]'', [[Media:Vucicevic_Branko_Avangardni_film_1895-1939_deo_2_1990.pdf|vol. 2]], 2 vols., Belgrade: Radionica SIC, 1984 & 1990, 159 & 63 pp. {{sc}}
* Fernao Ramos, ''Cinema Marginal, 1968-1973: A Representacao em seu Limite'', Sao Paulo: Editora Brasiliense, 1987. (in Portuguese)
+
 
 +
* Maureen Cheryn Turim, ''[[Media:Turim_Maureen_Cheryn_Abstraction_in_Avant_Garde_Films.pdf|Abstraction in Avant-garde Films]]'', Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1985.  
 +
 
 +
* Jairo Ferreira, ''Cinema de Invenção'', Sao Paulo: Editora Max Limonad, 1986. [http://cinema-de-invencao.blogspot.com/] {{br-pt}}
 +
 
 +
* Helge Krarup, Carl Norrested, ''Eksperimentalfilm i Danmark'', Copenhagen: Borgen, 1986. {{da}}
 +
 
 +
* Fernao Ramos, ''[[Media:Ramos_Fernao_Cinema_Marginal_1968-1973_1987.pdf|Cinema Marginal, 1968-1973: A Representacao em seu Limite]]'', Sao Paulo: Editora Brasiliense, 1987. {{pt}}
 +
 
 
* Stan Brakhage, ''Film at Wit's End: Eight Avant-garde Filmmakers'', Kingston, N.Y.: Documentext, 1989.
 
* 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. (in German) [http://www.shop-filmmuseum.de/epages/61390111.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/61390111/Products/b_0113]
+
 
* Peter Gidal, ''Materialist Film'', London and New York: Routledge, 1989. [http://scribd.com/doc/84136738/Materialist-Film-Gidal-1]
+
* Ingo Petzke (ed.), ''Das Experimentalfilm-Handbuch'', Frankfurt am Main: Deutsches Filminstitut, 1989, 385 pp. {{de}} [http://www.shop-filmmuseum.de/epages/61390111.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/61390111/Products/b_0113]
* Marcin Giżycki, ''Walka o film artystyczny w miedzynarodowej Polsce''. Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warsaw, 1989. (in Polish)
+
 
* Eduard Ditschek, ''Politisches Engagement und Medienexperiment: Theater und Film der Russischen und Deutschen Avantgarde der Zwanziger Jahre'', Tübingen: Narr, 1989, 306 pp. (in German) [http://d-nb.info/890788049/04 Contents].
+
* Peter Gidal, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11651 Materialist Film]'', London and New York: Routledge, 1989.  
* P. Adams Sitney, ''Modernist Montage: The Obscurity of Vision in Cinema and Literature'', New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.
+
 
* Patricia Mellencamp, ''Indiscretions: Avant-garde Film, Video & Feminism'', Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.
+
* Marcin Giżycki, ''Walka o film artystyczny w mie̜dzywojennej Polsce'', Warsaw: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1989, 262+[32] pp. {{pl}}
* Lauren Rabinovitz, ''Points of Resistance: Women, Power & Politics in the New York Avant-garde Cinema, 1943-71'', Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991; 2nd Edition, 2003. [http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/83mts2ec9780252071249.html]
+
 
* Stanislav Ulver, ''Západní filmová avantgarda'', Prague: ČFÚ, 1991. (in Czech)
+
* Eduard Ditschek, ''Politisches Engagement und Medienexperiment: Theater und Film der Russischen und Deutschen Avantgarde der Zwanziger Jahre'', Tübingen: Narr, 1989, 306 pp. [http://d-nb.info/890788049/04 TOC]. {{de}}
* William C. Wees, ''[http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft438nb2fr&chunk.id=0&toc.depth=100&brand=ucpress Light Moving in Time: Studies in the Visual Aesthetics of Avant-Garde Film]'', University of California Press, 1992.
+
 
* Frederique Devaux, ''Le cinéma Lettriste: 1951-1991'', Paris: Paris expérimental, 1992. (in French) [http://www.paris-experimental.asso.fr/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=59]
+
* David E. James, ''[[Media:James David E Allegories of Cinema American Film in the Sixties 1989.pdf|Allegories of Cinema: American Film in the Sixties]]'', Princeton University Press, 1989, xiii+388 pp. Review: [https://sci-hub.st/10.2307/1212738 Dessser] (Film Q).
 +
 
 +
</div>
 +
 
 +
====1990s====
 +
 
 +
<div class=twocol>
 +
 
 +
* P. Adams Sitney, ''Modernist Montage: The Obscurity of Vision in Cinema and Literature'', New York: Columbia University Press, 1990, x+250+[16] pp.
 +
 
 +
* Ryszard Kluszczyński, ''[[Media:Kluszczynski Ryszard Film_sztuka_Wielkiej_Awangardy 1990.pdf|Film: sztuka Wielkiej Awangardy]]'', Warsaw/Łódź: PWN, 1990, 183 pp. [https://www.academia.edu/3781563/] {{pl}}
 +
 
 +
* Patricia Mellencamp, ''[[Media:Mellencamp_Patricia_Indiscretions_Avant-garde_Film_Video_and_Feminism_1990.pdf|Indiscretions: Avant-garde Film, Video & Feminism]]'', Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990, xix+234 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. [http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/83mts2ec9780252071249.html]
 +
 
 +
* Stanislav Ulver, ''Západní filmová avantgarda'', Prague: ČFÚ, 1991. {{cz}}
 +
 
 +
* William C. Wees, ''[http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft438nb2fr&chunk.id=0&toc.depth=100&brand=ucpress Light Moving in Time: Studies in the Visual Aesthetics of Avant-Garde Film]'', University of California Press, 1992, [http://dss-edit.com/plu/William_C._Wees_Light_Moving_in_Time_Studies_in_the_Visual_Aesthetics_of_Avant-Garde_Film__1992.pdf PDF].
 +
 
 +
* Frederique Devaux, ''Le cinéma Lettriste: 1951-1991'', Paris: Paris expérimental, 1992. {{fr}} [http://www.paris-experimental.asso.fr/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=59 Publisher].
 +
 
 +
* David E. James (ed.), ''[[Media:To_Free_the_Cinema_Jonas_Mekas_and_the_New_York_Underground_1992.pdf|To Free the Cinema: Jonas Mekas and the New York Underground]]'', University of Princeton Press, 1992, 352 pp. [http://press.princeton.edu/titles/5006.html Publisher].
 +
 
 
* Scott MacDonald, ''Avant-garde Film: Motion Studies'', Cambridge University Press, 1993.
 
* Scott MacDonald, ''Avant-garde Film: Motion Studies'', Cambridge University Press, 1993.
 +
 +
* 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.
 +
 +
* 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}}
 +
 
* Edward S. Small, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=2618 Direct Theory: Experimental Film/Video as Major Genre]'', SIU Press, 1994, 122 pp.
 
* Edward S. Small, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=2618 Direct Theory: Experimental Film/Video as Major Genre]'', SIU Press, 1994, 122 pp.
 +
 
* James Peterson, ''Dreams of Chaos, Visions of Order: Understanding the American Avante-garde Cinema'', Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1994.
 
* 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. {{de}}
 +
 
* Jan-Christopher Horak (ed.), ''Lovers of Cinema: The First American Film Avant-garde, 1919-1945'', Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. [http://www.academia.edu/1573127/Lovers_of_Cinema._The_First_American_Film_Avant-Garde_1919-1945]
 
* Jan-Christopher Horak (ed.), ''Lovers of Cinema: The First American Film Avant-garde, 1919-1945'', Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. [http://www.academia.edu/1573127/Lovers_of_Cinema._The_First_American_Film_Avant-Garde_1919-1945]
* Peter Weiss, ''Avantgarde Film'', Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1995. (in German)
+
 
 
* Rudolf E. Kuenzli (ed.), ''Dada and Surrealist Film'', MIT Press, 1996.
 
* Rudolf E. Kuenzli (ed.), ''Dada and Surrealist Film'', MIT Press, 1996.
* Marcin Giżycki, ''Awangarda wobec kina. Film w kręgu polskiej awangardy artystycznej dwudziestolecia międzywojennego'', Wydawnictwo male, Warsaw, 1996. (in Polish) [http://www.polishfilms.org/RecMovies/Awangarda/History.htm] [http://www.polishculture-nyc.org/printIndex.cfm?itemId=432&eventId=691]
+
 
* Karin Fritsche, Claus Löser (eds.), ''Gegenbilder - Filmische Subversion in der DDR 1976-1989'', Berlin: Janus Press, 1996. [http://ex-oriente-lux.net/buch.htm], [http://www.frickfilm.de/Biografie/Stasi/Filmische_Subversion.doc Review]. (in German)
+
* Marcin Giżycki, ''Awangarda wobec kina: film w kręgu polskiej awangardy artystycznej dwudziestolecia międzywojennego'', Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Małe, 1996, 142 pp. [http://www.polishfilms.org/RecMovies/Awangarda/History.htm] [http://www.polishculture-nyc.org/printIndex.cfm?itemId=432&eventId=691] {{pl}}
* ''Il cinema d'avanguardia: 1910-1930'', Venezia: Marsilio, 1997. (in Italian)
+
 
 +
* Karin Fritsche, Claus Löser (eds.), ''Gegenbilder - Filmische Subversion in der DDR 1976-1989'', Berlin: Janus Press, 1996. [http://ex-oriente-lux.net/buch.htm], [http://www.frickfilm.de/Biografie/Stasi/Filmische_Subversion.doc Review]. {{de}}
 +
 
 +
* Bruno Fischli, Carola Ferber (eds.), ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=16530 Der Deutsche experimentalfilm der 90er Jahre / The German Experimental Film of the 1990s]'', Munich: Goethe Institut, 1996, 101 pp. {{de}}/{{en}}
 +
 
 +
* Michael O'Pray (ed.), ''[[Media:Michael_OPray_The_British_Avant-Garde_Film_1926-1995_An_Anthology_of_Writings_1996.pdf|The British Avant-Garde Film, 1926-1995: An Anthology of Writings]]'', Luton: John Libbey Media, 1996, 332 pp.
 +
 
 +
* Christian Lebrat, ''Entre les images'', Paris: Paris expérimental, 1997, 100 pp. {{fr}} [http://www.paris-experimental.asso.fr/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=26]
 +
 
 +
* ''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.
 +
 
 
* 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.  
 +
 +
* Jacqueline Bobo (ed.), ''[[Media:Bobo Jacqueline ed Black Women Film and Video Artists 1998.pdf|Black Women Film and Video Artists]]'', Routledge, 1998, 288 pp. [https://www.routledge.com/Black-Women-Film-and-Video-Artists/Bobo/p/book/9780415920421 Publisher].
 +
 
* Robert A. Haller (ed.), ''[http://www.roberthaller.com/firstlight/ First Light]'', New York: Anthology Film Archives, 1998, 108 pp.
 
* Robert A. Haller (ed.), ''[http://www.roberthaller.com/firstlight/ First Light]'', New York: Anthology Film Archives, 1998, 108 pp.
* Beatriz Sarlo Sabajanes, ''La maquina cultural: maestras, traductores y vanguardistas'', Buenos Aires: Ariel, 1998. (in Spanish)
+
 
 +
* 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. 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.
+
 
* Emanuel Levy, ''Cinema of outsiders: the rise of American independent film'', New York: New York University Press, 1999.
+
* 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.
* Bruno Di Marino, ''Sguardo inconscio azione: cinema sperimentale e underground a Roma: 1965-1975'', Rome: Lithos, 1999. (in Italian)
+
** ''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. {{jp}}
* Joan M Minguet Batllori, ''Cinema, modernitat i avantguarda (1920-1936)'', Valencia: E. Climent, 2000. (in Spanish)
+
** ''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. {{cn}}
* Barbara Wilinsky, ''Sure Seaters: the emergence of art house cinema'', Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
+
** 험영화와 비디오의 역사 : 정통 아방가르드부터 현대 영국 예술의 실천까지, 2014. {{ko}}
* Hans Scheugl, ''Erweitertes Kino. Die Wiener Filme der 60er Jahre'', Vienna, 2002. (in German)
+
 
 +
* Emanuel Levy, ''[[Media:Levy_Emanuel_Cinema_of_Outsiders_The_Rise_of_American_Independent_Film_1999.pdf|Cinema of Outsiders: The Rise of American Independent Film]]'', New York: New York University Press, 1999.
 +
 
 +
* Bruno Di Marino, ''Sguardo inconscio azione: cinema sperimentale e underground a Roma: 1965-1975'', Rome: Lithos, 1999. {{it}}
 +
 
 +
</div>
 +
 
 +
====2000s====
 +
 
 +
[[Image:Elder_R_Bruce_Harmony_and_Dissent.jpg|thumb|350px| R. Bruce Elder, ''Harmony and Dissent: Film and Avant-garde Art Movements in the Early Twentieth Century'', 2008, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=9777 Log].]]
 +
[[Image:Sitney_P_Adams_Eyes_Upside_Down.jpg|thumb|350px|P. Adams Sitney, ''Eyes Upside Down: Visionary Filmmakers and the Heritage of Emerson'', 2008, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=488 Log].]]
 +
 
 +
<div class=twocol>
 +
 
 +
* 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/].
 +
 
 +
* 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.
 +
 
 +
* Scott MacDonald, ''[[Media:MacDonald Scott The Garden in the Machine A Field Guide to Independent Films about Place 2001.pdf|The Garden in the Machine: A Field Guide to Independent Films about Place]]'', University of California Press, 2001, 487 pp. [http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520227385 Publisher].
 +
 
 +
* 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.
 +
 
 +
* Malcolm Le Grice, ''[http://libgen.rs/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}}
 +
 
 
* 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.
* Maurice Lemaitre, ''1967-1969, le cafe-cinema Lemaitre : suivi de Huit filmes lettristes'', Paris: Paris expérimental, 2003. (in French)
+
 
* Michael O'Pray, ''Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions'', London/New York: Wallflower, 2003.
+
* Maurice Lemaitre, ''1967-1969, le cafe-cinema Lemaitre : suivi de Huit filmes lettristes'', Paris: Paris expérimental, 2003. {{fr}}
 +
 
 +
* 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.
 +
 
 
* 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]
 +
 
* Jeffrey Skoller, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=1032 Shadows, Specters, Shards. Making History in Avant-Garde Film]'', University of Minnesota Press, 2005, 233 pp.
 
* Jeffrey Skoller, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=1032 Shadows, Specters, Shards. Making History in Avant-Garde Film]'', University of Minnesota Press, 2005, 233 pp.
* Paul Arthur, ''A line of sight: American avant-garde film since 1965'', Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
+
 
* Jean Petrolle, Virginia Wright Wexman (eds.), ''Women and Experimental Filmmaking'', Urbana: University of Illinois, 2005. [http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip055/2004029712.html]
+
* Haidee Wasson, ''[[Media:Wasson Haidee Museum Movies The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art Cinema 2005.pdf|Museum Movies: The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art Cinema]]'', University of California Press, 2005.
* Paul G. Pickowicz, Yingjin Zhang (eds.), ''From underground to independent: alternative film culture in contemporary China'', Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.
+
 
* Robin Blaetz (ed.), ''Women's Experimental Cinema: Critical Frameworks'', Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. [http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0713/2007009344.html]
+
* David E. James, ''The Most Typical Avant-garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles'', University of California Press, 2005, 548 pp. [http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=10993 Review].
* Malte Hagener, ''[http://dare.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://gen.lib.rus.ec/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.
+
* Clayton Patterson (ed.), ''Captured: A Film & Video History of the Lower East Side'', New York: Seven Stories Press, 2005, 554 pp. [http://patterson.no-art.info/books/2005_captured.html]
* 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. (in English/German) [http://www.sternberg-press.com/index.php?pageId=1177&bookId=77&l=en]
+
 
* Duncan Reekie, ''[http://libgen.org/get?md5=a076b5eed59342dd9a817b36c49b2c1e&open=0 Subversion: The Definitive History of Underground Cinema]'', London: Wallflower Press 2007.
+
* Paul Arthur, ''A Line of Sight: American Avant-Garde Film Since 1965'', University of Minnesota Press, 2005. [http://books.google.com/books?id=jkE4374rcEMC&printsec=frontcover]
* P. Adams Sitney, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=488 Eyes Upside Down: Visionary Filmmakers and the Heritage of Emerson]'', 2008.
+
 
* Randall Halle, Reinhild Steingröver (eds.), ''After the avant-garde : contemporary German and Austrian experimental film'', Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2008.
+
* Jean Petrolle, Virginia Wright Wexman (eds.), ''[[Media:Petrolle Jean_Wexman_Virginia eds_Women_and_Experimental_Filmmaking_2005.pdf|Women and Experimental Filmmaking]]'', Urbana: University of Illinois, 2005, 300 pp. Review: [https://sci-hub.st/10.1086/599264 Hutchison] (Signs). [http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip055/2004029712.html]
 +
 
 +
* François Albera, ''L’Avant-garde au cinéma'', Paris: Armand Colin, 2005. {{fr}}
 +
 
 +
* Scott MacDonald, ''[[Media:MacDonald Scott Art in Cinema Documents Toward a History of the Film Society 2006.pdf|Art in Cinema: Documents Toward a History of the Film Society]]'', Temple University Press, 2006, 307 pp.
 +
 
 +
* Paul G. Pickowicz, Yingjin Zhang (eds.), ''From Underground to Independent: Alternative Film Culture in Contemporary China'', Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.
 +
 
 +
* Nicole Brenez, ''[[Media:Brenez_Nicole_Cinemas_d_avant-garde.pdf|Cinémas d'avant-garde]]'', Paris: Cahiers du cinéma, 2006, 95 pp. {{fr}}
 +
 
 +
* Nicole Brenez, ''[[Media:Brenez_Nicole_Traitement_du_Lumpenproletariat_par_le_cinema_d_avant-garde.pdf|Traitement du lumpenproletariat par le cinéma d'avant-garde]]'', Biarritz: Séguier, and Paris: Archimbaud, 2006, 97 pp. {{fr}}
 +
 
 +
*{{a|Blaetz2007}}Robin Blaetz (ed.), ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22693 Women's Experimental Cinema: Critical Frameworks]'', Durham: Duke University Press, 2007, viii+421 pp. [https://www.dukeupress.edu/womens-experimental-cinema Publisher]. [http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25768 OAPEN].
 +
 
 +
* 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].
 +
 
 +
* Jacques Aumont, ''Moderne? Comment le cinéma est devenu le plus singulier des arts'', Paris: Cahiers du Cinéma, 2007. {{fr}}
 +
 
 +
* Noël Burch, ''De la Beauté des latrines: pour réhabiliter le sens au cinéma et ailleurs'', Paris: L’Harmattan, 2007. {{fr}}
 +
 
 +
* 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.
 +
 
 +
* 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).
 +
 
 +
* 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.
 +
 
 +
* Randall Halle, Reinhild Steingroever (eds.), ''After the Avant-Garde: German and Austrian Experimental Film'', Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2008. [http://books.google.com/books?id=Y1_8odWgKNgC&printsec=frontcover]
 +
 
 
* R. Bruce Elder, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=9777 Harmony and Dissent: Film and Avant-garde Art Movements in the Early Twentieth Century]'', Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008.
 
* R. Bruce Elder, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=9777 Harmony and Dissent: Film and Avant-garde Art Movements in the Early Twentieth Century]'', Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008.
 +
 
* Daniel Barnett, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=493 Movement as Meaning: In Experimental Film]'', Rodopi, 2008, 240 pp.
 
* Daniel Barnett, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=493 Movement as Meaning: In Experimental Film]'', Rodopi, 2008, 240 pp.
* Randall Halle, Reinhild Steingroever (eds.), ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=Y1_8odWgKNgC&printsec=frontcover After the Avant-Garde: German and Austrian Experimental Film]'', Camden House, 2008.
+
 
* Hollis Frampton, ''[http://cdn.anonfiles.com/1389093619758.pdf On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton]'', ed. Bruce Jenkins, MIT Press, 2009, 360 pp. [http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/camera-arts-and-consecutive-matters]
+
* Christian Lebrat, ''Cinéma radical: dimensions du cinéma expérimental et d’avant-garde'', Paris: Paris Expérimental, 2008, 182 pp. Review: [https://journals.openedition.org/questionsdecommunication/336 Olivesi] (QdC). {{fr}}
* Jean-Paul Aubert, ''L'école de Barcelone : un cinéma d'avant-garde en Espagne sous le franquisme'', Paris: Harmattan, 2009. (in French)
+
** ''Radical Cinema'', trans. Anna Doyle, et al., Paris: Paris Expérimental, 2020.  
 +
 
 +
* Hollis Frampton, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=18212 On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton]'', ed. Bruce Jenkins, MIT Press, 2009, 360 pp. [http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/camera-arts-and-consecutive-matters]
 +
* Jean-Paul Aubert, ''L'école de Barcelone: un cinéma d'avant-garde en Espagne sous le franquisme'', Paris: Harmattan, 2009. {{fr}}
 +
 
 +
* Paul Young, Paul Duncan (eds.), ''Art Cinema'', Taschen, 2009, 192 pp. [http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/film/all/00185/facts.art_cinema.htm]
 +
** ''La cinéma expérimental'', Taschen, 2009, 192 pp. {{fr}} [http://www.taschen.com/pages/fr/catalogue/film/all/00185/facts.le_cinema_experimental.htm]
 +
 
 +
* S. Buchmann, H. Draxler, S. Geene (eds.), ''Film, Avantgarde, Biopolitik'', Vienna: Schlebrügge, 2009, 428 pp. [http://www.schlebruegge.com/de/content/film-avantgarde-biopolitik] {{de}}
 +
 
 +
* [https://monoskop.org/log/?p=282 ''From Absolute Cinema to Future Film: Materials from the History of Experiment in the Moving Picture Art''], eds. Violetta Kutlubasis-Krajewska and Piotr Krajewski, Wroclaw: WRO Art Center, 2009, 84 pp.
 +
** [https://monoskop.org/log/?p=282 ''Od kina absolutnego do filmu przyszłości''], Wroclaw: WRO Art Center, 2009. {{pl}}
 +
 
 +
</div>
 +
 
 +
====2010s====
 +
 
 +
<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}}
 +
 
 +
* 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}}
 +
 
 +
* Steve Anker, Kathy Geritz, Steve Seid (eds.), ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=18233 Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-2000]'', University of California Press, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2010, 352 pp.
 +
 
 
* Lars Gustaf Andersson, John Sundholm, Astrid Söderbergh Widding, ''[[Media:Andersson_Sundholm_Widding_A_History_of_Swedish_Experimental_Film_Culture_From_Early_Animation_to_Video_Art_no_images.pdf|A History of Swedish Experimental Film Culture: From Early Animation to Video Art]]'', Stockholm: Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2010. [http://www.kb.se/aktuellt/Butik-och-Publikationer/Mediehistoriskt-arkiv2/Experimental-film/]
 
* Lars Gustaf Andersson, John Sundholm, Astrid Söderbergh Widding, ''[[Media:Andersson_Sundholm_Widding_A_History_of_Swedish_Experimental_Film_Culture_From_Early_Animation_to_Video_Art_no_images.pdf|A History of Swedish Experimental Film Culture: From Early Animation to Video Art]]'', Stockholm: Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2010. [http://www.kb.se/aktuellt/Butik-och-Publikationer/Mediehistoriskt-arkiv2/Experimental-film/]
* Malcolm Turvey, ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/get?md5=493A858A784B322509C0F23498663C59&open=0 The Filming of Modern Life: European Avant-Garde Film of the 1920s]'', MIT Press, 2011.
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* Pavle Levi, ''[http://cdn.anonfiles.com/1388931516752.pdf Cinema by Other Means]'', Oxford University Press, 2012, 224 pp. [http://global.oup.com/academic/product/cinema-by-other-means-9780199841424?cc=sk&lang=en&]
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* Malcolm Turvey, ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/4d5055ad-ea5d-42a9-b7ea-571f865997cf The Filming of Modern Life: European Avant-Garde Film of the 1920s]'', MIT Press, 2011. Review: [https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/even-as-everything-melts-malcolm-turveys-the-filming-of-modern-life/ Foltz] (LARB).
* Adriano Aprà (ed.), ''Fuori norma. La via sperimentale del cinema italiano'', Marsilio, 2013, 208 pp. (in Italian)
+
 
 +
* Pavle Levi, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=10297 Cinema by Other Means]'', Oxford University Press, 2012, 224 pp.  
 +
 
 +
* Peter Tscherkassky (ed.), ''Film Unframed: A History of Austrian Avant-Garde Cinema'', Vienna: Synema, 2012, 368 pp. [https://shop.bfi.org.uk/film-unframed-a-history-of-austrian-avant-garde-cinema.html]
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 +
* 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).
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 +
* 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.
 +
 
 +
* 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/]
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 +
* 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/]
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 +
* 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.
 +
 
 +
* Ara Osterweil, ''Flesh Cinema: The Corporeal Turn in American Avant-Garde Film'', Manchester University Press, 2014, 304 pp. [http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719091919/]
 +
 
 +
* Božidar Zečević, ''Srpska avangarda i film 1920-1932'', Belgrade: Akademski filmski centar/Dom kulture Studentski grad, 2014, 390 pp. {{sr}}
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 +
* 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}}
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 +
* 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}}
 +
 
 +
* 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}}
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 +
* 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]
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 +
* 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.
 +
 
 +
* 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]
 +
 
 +
* 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}}
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 +
* Jeffrey Babcock, Cecilia Dino, ''Séances: Re-wiring Images in the Amsterdam Underground'', Amsterdam, 2016. [https://www.facebook.com/events/1096241460434909/]
 +
 
 +
* George Bagdasarov, Alexandra Moralesová, et al., ''Buenos Aires Experiment'', Prague: Akademie múzických umění v Praze, 2016, 162 pp. [https://namu.cz/files/2017-05/170516163728.pdf TOC], [https://namu.cz/files/2017-05/170516163749.pdf Excerpt]. [https://namu.cz/buenos-aires-experiment]. Review: [https://www.kinecko.com/na-ceste-za-experimentalnym-filmom/ Križková] (Kapitál/Kinečko). {{cz}}
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** ''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}}
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 +
* 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}}
 +
 
 +
* 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/]
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 +
* Albert Alcoz, ''Resonancias fílmicas: el sonido en el cine estructural (1960-1981)'', Santander: Shangrila Textos Aparte, 2017, 358 pp. [http://shangrilaediciones.com/producto/resonancias-filmicas/ Publisher]. {{es}}
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 +
* 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. [https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520296084/ism-ism-ism-ismo-ismo-ismo Publisher]. {{en}}/{{es}}
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 +
* 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. [http://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=5884] [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1019616425&referer=brief_results]
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 +
* Sue Clayton, Laura Mulvey (eds.), ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/b98879a3-7a78-49ef-b508-c2a96fcf5071 Other Cinemas: Politics, Culture and Experimental Film in the 1970s]'', I.B. Tauris, 2017.
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 +
* Érik Bullot, ''Le film et son double. Boniment, ventriloquie, performativité'', Dijon: Les Presses du réel, 2017, 208 pp. [http://www.lespressesdureel.com/PDF/5883.pdf Introduction]. [http://www.lespressesdureel.com/ouvrage.php?id=5883&menu=] {{fr}}
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 +
* Érik Bullot (ed.), ''Du film performatif'', Dijon: Les Presses du réel, 2018, 265 pp. [http://www.lespressesdureel.com/ouvrage.php?id=6510] {{fr}}
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 +
* Claudia Aravena, Iván Pinto, ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/5ca5fe049ff37c21a9622be3 Visiones laterales: cine y video experimental en Chile 1957-2017]'', Santiago de Chile: Metales Pesados, 2018, 271 pp. [https://luchalibrola.com/visiones-laterales-cine-y-video-experimental-en-chile-1957-2017-7ad0fe630e24?gi=14274211269a]. Reviews: [http://revistas.uncu.edu.ar/ojs/index.php/mel/article/view/1304 Moreno] (Algarrobo-MEL), [http://www.lafuga.cl/visiones-laterales-cine-y-video-experimental-1957-2017/893 Kottow] (laFuga). {{es}}
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* Gonzalo de Lucas (ed.), ''Xcèntric Cinema: Conversations on the Creative Process and the Filmic Vision'', Barcelona: CCCB, 2018, 311 pp. With DVD. [http://xcentric.cccb.org/en/publications/fitxa/xcantric-cinema/228867] [https://worldcat.org/oclc/1099428662]
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* Richard H. Brown, ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/ec816ac7-9eec-4b3a-b7a6-fd6ed9c8553c Through The Looking Glass: John Cage and Avant-Garde Film]'', Oxford University Press, 2019, 256 pp. [http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190628079.001.0001/oso-9780190628079]
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* Albert Alcoz, ''[[Media:Alcoz_Albert_Radicales_libres_50_peliculas_esenciales_del_cine_experimental_2019.pdf|Radicales libres: 50 películas esenciales del cine experimental]]'', Barcelona: Editorial UOC, 2019, 236 pp. [https://www.editorialuoc.cat/radicales-libres Publisher]. {{es}}
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* 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}}
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 +
* 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.
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 +
* 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].
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* 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]
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* 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]
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====2020s====
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<div class=twocol>
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* 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].
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* Sarah Durcan, ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=41544B94767CFF9E64223BCB58267513 Memory and Intermediality in Artists’ Moving Image]'', Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 260 pp.
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* Jill Murphy, Laura Rascaroli (eds.), ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=E724D114C74D616AD11482FBFE9EB468 Theorizing Film Through Contemporary Art: Expanding Cinema]'', Amsterdam University Press, 2020.
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* 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]
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* 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].
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* 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].
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* 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].
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* David Curtis, Steve McQueen, ''[https://hostb.org/1CQZ Artists' Film]'', London: Thames & Hudson, 2021, 340 pp. [https://thamesandhudson.com/artists-film-9780500204733 Publisher].
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* 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].
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* 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].
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* 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]
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* 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}}
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* 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].
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* 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].
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* Jennifer DeClue, ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=51BF982A0A70C03AD6642A52518CE526 Visitation: The Conjure Work of Black Feminist Avant-Garde Cinema]'', Duke University Press, 2022.
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===Journal issues===
 
===Journal issues===
* Annette Michelson (ed.), ''[[Media:Michelson_Annette_ed_Artforum_Special_Film_Issue_September_1971.pdf|Artforum: Special Film Issue]]'' (September 1971).
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* Violetta Kutlubasis-Krajewska, Piotr Krajewski (eds.), [http://video.wrocenter.pl/media/pdf/WIDOK1_English_wrocenter.pl.pdf ''Widok'' 1: "From Absolute Cinema to Future Film. Materials from the history of experiment in the moving picture art"], Wroclaw: WRO Art Center, 2009.
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* ''Kino-Integral'' 11-21 (2011): "Prispevki k zgodovini slovenskega eksperimentalnega filma". Issue on the history of Slovenian experimental film. (in Slovenian) [http://www.e-kino.si/2011/no-11-12/kazalo]
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* [[Media:Michelson_Annette_ed_Artforum_Special_Film_Issue_September_1971.pdf|''Artforum'': "Special Film Issue"]], ed. Annette Michelson, Sep 1971.
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* ''Journal of the University Film Association'' 33(2): "Avant-garde Film/Video", Spring 1981. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/i20687557]
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* ''Cinepur'' 17: "Současný český experimentální film", Prague, Feb 2001. [http://cinepur.cz/list.php?issue=16] {{cz}}
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* [http://www.e-kino.si/2011/no-11-12/kazalo ''Kino-Integral'' 11-12: "Prispevki k zgodovini slovenskega eksperimentalnega filma"], 2011. Issue on the history of Slovenian experimental film. {{sl}}
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* [http://revistas.um.es/api/issue/view/12631 ''Arte y Políticas de Identidad'' 8: "La pantalla experimental en el Estado español: Ensayos, estructuras, deconstrucciones, militancias"], 2013. {{es}}
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* ''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}}
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* [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}}
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===Selected essays, theses===
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* John G. Hanhardt, [https://archive.org/stream/blamexplosionofp16hask#page/116/mode/2up "The American Independent Cinema, 1958-1964"], in ''Blam! The Explosion of Pop, Minimalism, and Performance, 1958-1964'', ed. Barbara Haskell, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1984, pp 117-136.
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* Ansje van Beusekom, ''[[Media:Van_Beusekom_Ansje_Film_als_kunst_Reacties_op_een_nieuw_medium_in_Nederland_1895-1940.pdf|Film als kunst. Reacties op een nieuw medium in Nederland, 1895-1940]]'', Vrije Universiteit, 1998, 336 pp. Ph.D. Dissertation. {{nl}}
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* 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.
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* Carlos Kase, ''[http://scribd.com/doc/88287183/ A Cinema of Anxiety: American Experimental Film in the Realm of Art (1965-75)]'', University of Southern California, 2009. PhD dissertation.
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* 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.
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* Julian Ross, ''[https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/30267599.pdf Beyond the Frame: Intermedia and Expanded Cinema in 1960s-1970s Japan]'', Leeds: University of Leeds, 2014, 287 pp. PhD dissertation. {{en}}
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* 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.
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===Encyclopedic entries===
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: [[Media:GEMTA_2008_Experimental_film.pdf|"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.
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: Jeffrey Skoller, [[Media:Skoller Jeffrey 2014 Experimentalism Film and Video.pdf|"Experimentalism: Film and Video"]], in ''Encyclopedia of Aesthetics'', 2nd ed., ed. Michael Kelly, Oxford University Press, 2014, pp 547-551.
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===Mailing lists===
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* [http://www.hi-beam.net/fw.html Frameworks]. Started by [[Pip Chodorov]] of Re:Voir in Paris; unmoderated. [http://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/pipermail/frameworks/ Archives].
  
 
===Documentary films===
 
===Documentary films===
* ''Die kritische Masse – Film im Underground, Hamburg '68'', dir. Christian Bau, 110 min, 1998. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0188778/]
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* ''Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film'', dir. Pip Chodorov, 82 min, 2012. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1666305/]
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* ''Die kritische Masse – Film im Underground, Hamburg '68'', dir. Christian Bau, 1998, 110 min. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0188778/]
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* ''Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film'', dir. Pip Chodorov, 2012, 82 min. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1666305/]
  
 
===Bibliographies===
 
===Bibliographies===
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* [http://www.ubu.com/papers/#film UbuWeb: Papers on Film]
 
* [http://www.ubu.com/papers/#film UbuWeb: Papers on Film]
 
* [http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/avantbib.html Avant-garde, Underground, and Experimental Cinema: A Selected Bibliography/Videography of Materials in the UC Berkeley]
 
* [http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/avantbib.html Avant-garde, Underground, and Experimental Cinema: A Selected Bibliography/Videography of Materials in the UC Berkeley]
 
* [http://www.nyu.edu/projects/cinema.resources/exam_bib/ag_history.pdf NYU Department of Cinema Studies' Avant-Garde Reading List]
 
* [http://www.nyu.edu/projects/cinema.resources/exam_bib/ag_history.pdf NYU Department of Cinema Studies' Avant-Garde Reading List]
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* [http://cinemasound.wikispaces.com/Woloshen Steven Woloshen's Selected Bibliography: Experimental Sound in Film]
 
* Robin Blaetz, [http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199791286/obo-9780199791286-0082.xml "Avant-Garde and Experimental Film"], ''Oxford Bibliographies''
 
* Robin Blaetz, [http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199791286/obo-9780199791286-0082.xml "Avant-Garde and Experimental Film"], ''Oxford Bibliographies''
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* [http://www.criterionforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1876&start=500#p349812 Compiled list of books on experimental film from Frameworks mailing list], 2011. [http://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/pipermail/frameworks/2011-July/thread.html#4612 Archived discussion].
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* [http://sites.google.com/site/eddietainment/womenscinema Film Aesthetics: Women’s Experimental Cinema course by Ed Halter], 2008.
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* Grahame Weinbren, Arlene Zeichner, [https://sci-hub.st/https://www.jstor.org/stable/20687564 "A Selected Annotated Bibliography of Writings Connected with Avant-Garde Film"], ''Journal of the University Film Association'' 33(2): "Avant-garde Film/Video", Spring 1981, pp 35-56.
  
==Resources==
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==See also==
* [http://www.ubu.com/film/ UbuWeb: Film & Video], excellent archive of experimental film and video.
 
* [http://www.cinovid.org/ cinovid], database for experimental film and video art.
 
* [http://www.eai.org Electronic Arts Intermix], resource for video and media art, founded in 1971.
 
* [http://www.luxonline.org.uk/ LuxOnline], a web resource for exploring British based artists’ film and video in-depth.
 
* [http://www.iotacenter.org/ The iotaCenter], resource on visual music, founded in 1994.
 
* [http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/ Center for Visual Music].
 
* [http://www.movingimagesource.us/research/guide/145 Moving Image Source's Research Guide on Experimental and Avant-garde]
 
* [http://www.expcinema.com Experimental Cinema], news and resources on experimental film.
 
* [http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/flicker.pl Flicker], further links to sites about contemporary and historical experimental cinema.
 
* [http://sites.google.com/site/haltered/experimentalcinemaresources More].
 
  
==See also==
 
 
* Experimental film in [[Media_art_in_Central_and_Eastern_Europe#Experimental_film|CEE]], [[Hungary#Experimental_film.2C_avant-garde_film|Hungary]], [[Poland#Experimental_film.2C_avant-garde_film|Poland]], [[Czech_Republic#Experimental_film.2C_avant-garde_film|Czech Republic]], [[Slovakia#Experimental_film|Slovakia]], [[Croatia#Experimental_film|Croatia]], [[Serbia#Experimental_film|Serbia]], [[Slovenia#Experimental_film|Slovenia]], [[Bosnia_and_Herzegovina#Experimental_film|Bosnia and Herzegovina]], [[Romania#Experimental_film.2C_avant-garde_film|Romania]], [[Estonia#Experimental_film|Estonia]], [[Lithuania#Experimental_film|Lithuania]].
 
* Experimental film in [[Media_art_in_Central_and_Eastern_Europe#Experimental_film|CEE]], [[Hungary#Experimental_film.2C_avant-garde_film|Hungary]], [[Poland#Experimental_film.2C_avant-garde_film|Poland]], [[Czech_Republic#Experimental_film.2C_avant-garde_film|Czech Republic]], [[Slovakia#Experimental_film|Slovakia]], [[Croatia#Experimental_film|Croatia]], [[Serbia#Experimental_film|Serbia]], [[Slovenia#Experimental_film|Slovenia]], [[Bosnia_and_Herzegovina#Experimental_film|Bosnia and Herzegovina]], [[Romania#Experimental_film.2C_avant-garde_film|Romania]], [[Estonia#Experimental_film|Estonia]], [[Lithuania#Experimental_film|Lithuania]].
 
* Further [[Media art in Central and Eastern Europe Bibliography#Experimental_film|bibliography]].
 
* Further [[Media art in Central and Eastern Europe Bibliography#Experimental_film|bibliography]].
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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)
  • 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]
  • 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.
  • 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. 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. [43] (English)/(German)
  • Randall Halle, Reinhild Steingroever (eds.), After the Avant-Garde: German and Austrian Experimental Film, Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2008. [44]
  • 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. [46]
    • La cinéma expérimental, Taschen, 2009, 192 pp. (French) [47]
  • S. Buchmann, H. Draxler, S. Geene (eds.), Film, Avantgarde, Biopolitik, Vienna: Schlebrügge, 2009, 428 pp. [48] (German)

2010s[edit]

  • Peter Tscherkassky (ed.), Film Unframed: A History of Austrian Avant-Garde Cinema, Vienna: Synema, 2012, 368 pp. [51]
  • 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)
  • 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. [52]
  • 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]

  • 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.

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]


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