Alexander Kluge: Raw Materials for the Imagination (2012)

“Alexander Kluge is best known as a founding member of the New German Cinema. His work, however, spans a diverse range of fields and, over the last fifty years, he has been active as a filmmaker, writer and television producer. This book – the first of its kind in English – comprises a wide selection of texts, including articles and stories by Kluge, television transcripts, critical essays by renowned international scholars, and interviews with Kluge himself. It will be a valuable resource for students and scholars in the fields of film, television, and literary studies, as well as those interested in exploring the intersections between art, politics, and social change.”

Edited by Tara Forrest
Publisher Amsterdam University Press, 2012
Film Culture in Transition series
Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License
ISBN 9089642722, 9789089642721
440 pages

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Helen Hill (ed.): Recipes for Disaster: A Handcrafted Film Cookbooklet (2001/2005)

“This is a collection of handcrafted film recipes from 37 fellow experimental filmmakers, mostly from Canada but also from all over. These generous folks donated their blueprints, ideas, drawings and technical information for only free copies of this book and a chance to read everyone else’s contributions. Thank you to all these fine filmmakers. And thank you to my husband Paul Gailiunas, who helped all along.

During 1999 and 2000, the Canada Council for the Arts gave me a grant to learn about handcrafted film. I traveled from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Vancouver, Toronto and Calgary. I met dozens of experimental filmmakers who shared their techniques with me. I thought the least I could do would be to gather this scattered information together. Thank you Canada Council, for funding this good year. And thank you to Laura and Kelly at the Splice This! Super 8 Film Festival in Toronto. They gave me what I needed–a deadline. This book was launched at the 2001 festival.

The main changes in this new version are my new permanent address in New Orleans and the loss of a favorite film stock.

Kodak no longer makes the film stock 7378, which is a high contrast black and white film used in many of these handprocessing recipes. However, the film stock called 3378e has been tested in many underground filmmaking labs and seems to work just the same. So anywhere you see 7378 mentioned, you may use 3378e instead.” (from Introduction)

A revised, post-hurricane edition of the book
95 pages
via Andre Castro

about Helen Hill (wikipedia)

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Related: To Boldly Go: A Starters Guide to Hand Made and DIY Films
Related: Cherry Kino: Wondermental Super8 and 16mm Film Techniques

3/4 magazine, 27-28: Media Art History: Remake (2012) [English/Slovak]

Special bilingual issue of 3/4 magazine dedicated to media art history. Serves as a catalogue of a travelling exhibition Remake. It also brings, for the first time, selection of interviews done by Dušan Barok with personalities and media art and culture history-makers Diana McCarty, Michal Murin, Călin Man, Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits. Interviews are complemented by a passage from monograph about Steina and Woody Vasulka, entitled Dialogue with Daemons of Tools by art historian Lenka Dolanová, views on art scenes in Ukraine and Iceland and appendix showing the process of development of works for Remake exhibition.

Editor: Barbora Šedivá
Editor-in-chief: Slávo Krekovič
Contributing editors: Dušan Barok, Katarína Gatialová, Oliver Rehák, Mária Rišková, Catherine Lenoble
Publisher Atrakt Art, Bratislava, Slovakia
ISSN 1335-5309
134 pages

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