Film as Film: Formal Experiment in Film, 1910-1975 (1979)

Catalogue for an exhibition held at Hayward Gallery, London, in May-June 1979, derived from a project originally conceived by Birgit Hein and Wulf Herzogenrath and shown at the Kunstverein in Cologne in the previous year.

With texts by Phillip Drummond, A.L. Rees, Birgit Hein, Wulf Herzogenrath, Malcolm Le Grice, Ian Christie, Peter Weibel, Deke Dusinberre and William Moritz.

Publisher Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1979
ISBN 0728702002
152 pages
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Exhibition review (John McEwen, The Spectator)

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Don Miller: “B” Movies: An Informal Survey of the American Low-Budget Film, 1933-1945 (1973)

“Charlie Chan gave nuggets of Oriental wisdom to his number one son? Ann Miller tap-danced in front of cardboard backdrops? Tarzan swung through the trees? The sound of the Whistler echoed in the dark? Abbott and Costello joined the army? Andy Hardy faced his father? Sherlock Holmes found the vital clue? A producer named Val Lewton sent shivers down your spine?

From the beginning of sound to the start of the television era, Hollywood turned out thousands of low-budget “B” movies. Some were simply awful, most were pretty good, and not a few reached greatness. Don Miller, one of the most notable of movie experts, has written a superlative survey of this neglected facet of Hollywood’s golden age-a brilliant history of the studios, producers, directors, performers and films that made “B” stand for beautiful in the memory of every movie buff.” (from the back cover)

Publisher Curtis Books, New York, 1973
The Curtis Film Series
350 pages

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Ingrid Hoelzl, Friedrich Tietjen (eds.): Images in Motion: Cahier #3 (2012)

The aim of this Cahier is to bring together contributions that, induced by digitalization but not confined to digital images, explore historical and contemporary image practices that are situated beyond the habitual definitions of photography and film. The first part of the essays traces the pre-digital history of photography as a time-image in early photography (Timm Starl), the implications of using photographic images for proto-cinematic optical toys (Friedrich Tietjen) and Auguste Chevallier’s translation of panoramic images into a circular image which upsets traditional notions of photographic temporality as much as notions of the frame (Katja Müller-Helle). The second part explores the historical legacy of the digital “moving still” such as the freeze effect (Eivind Røssaak) employed in the blockbuster film The Matrix (1999) or the ubiquitous Ken Burns effect (Ingrid Hoelzl) used as a display feature in Apple iPhoto and other photo-software. It is preluded by a visual essay by Maarten Vanvolsem and Jonathan Shaw. The essay assembles and discusses their respective artistic practice in relation to their chronophotographic predecessors such as Bragagila—in the unusual format of the photographic still.

Publisher Luca School of Arts, Brussels, December 2012
ISBN 9789490049072
78 pages
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