P. Adams Sitney (ed.), Film Culture Reader (1970)
Filed under book | Tags: · avant-garde, cinema, experimental film, film, film theory
“This compilation from Film Culture magazine―the pioneering periodical in avant-garde film commentary―includes contributors like Charles Boultenhouse, Erich von Stroheim, Michael McClure, Stan Brakhage, Annette Michelson, Arthur Miller, Dylan Thomas, Andrew Sarris, Rudolph Arnheim, Jonas Mekas, and Parker Tyler. This collection covers a range of topics in twentieth century cinema, from the Auteur Theory to the commercial cinema, from Orson Welles to Kenneth Anger.”
Publisher Praeger Publishers, New York, 1970
Reprint, Cooper Square Press, New York, 2000
ISBN 0815411014, 9780815411017
viii+438 pages
PDF (23 MB)
Comment (0)Theo van Doesburg: Principles of Neo-Plastic Art (1919–) [DE, EN]
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, art, art criticism, art theory
Van Doesburg‘s treatise on De Stijl movement.
First published in Dutch as “Grondbegrippen der nieuwe beeldende kunst in the magazine Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 13:1 & 13:2, 1919.
German edition
Publisher Albert Langen, Munich, 1925
Bauhausbücher series, 6
40+[26] pages
English edition
Publisher Lund Humphries, London, 1968
Publisher (US edition): New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, CT, 1968
x+73 pages
WorldCat (EN)
Grundbegriffe der neuen gestaltenden Kunst (German, 1925, 11 MB)
Principles of Neo-Plastic Art (English, 1968, 45 MB)
Jonas Reinhardt: Ganymede (2014)
Filed under music video, video | Tags: · science fiction
“Ganymede is an experimental science fiction film set on the solar system’s largest moon. On Ganymede, it is thought that volcanic vents supply the necessary power to fuel life. This film imagines unknown extra-terrestrial life forms engaged in ritualistic aquatic dance beneath a sky of ice. The resulting way of life is depicted as fluctuating pulses of energy abstracted beyond conventional consciousness.”
Produced by Jesse Reiner and Antonia Kuo
Edited by Antonia Kuo and Lily Jue Sheng
Featuring films by Antonia Kuo, Josh Lewis, Ben Mosca, Kenneth Curwood, Shona Maslin, and Lily Sue Sheng
Music by Jonas Reinhardt
35 min
Posted in 2014 by Jesse Reiner on Vimeo.
Download MP4 (672 MB).
Listen to music album.