Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-2000 (2010)
Filed under book, catalogue | Tags: · art history, california, experimental film, film, film history, san francisco, video, video art
“This kaleidoscopic collection of essays, interviews, photographs, and artist-designed pages chronicles the vibrant and influential history of experimental cinema in the San Francisco Bay Area. Encompassing historical, cultural, and aesthetic realms, Radical Light features critical analyses of films and videos, reminiscences from artists, and interviews with pioneering filmmakers, curators, and archivists. It explores artistic movements, film and video exhibition and distribution, artists’ groups, and Bay Area film schools. Special sections of ephemera—posters, correspondence, photographs, newsletters, program notes, and more—punctuate the pages of Radical Light, giving a first-hand visual sense of the period. This groundbreaking, hybrid assemblage reveals a complex picture of how and why the San Francisco Bay Region, a laboratory for artistic and technical innovation for more than half a century, has become a global center of vanguard film, video, and new media.
Among the contributors are Rebecca Solnit and Ernie Gehr on Bay Area cinema’s roots in the work of Eadweard Muybridge and others; Scott MacDonald on Art in Cinema; P. Adams Sitney on films by James Broughton and Sidney Peterson; Stan Brakhage, Bruce Conner, Lawrence Jordan, and Yvonne Rainer on the Bay Area film scene in the 1950s; J. Hobeman on films by Christopher Maclaine, Bruce Conner, and Robert Nelson; Craig Baldwin on found footage film; George Kuchar on student-produced melodramas; Michael Wallin on queer film in the 1970s; V. Vale on punk cinema; Dale Hoyt and Cecilia Dougherty on video in the 1980s and 1990s; and Maggie Morse on new media as sculpture.”
Edited by Steve Anker, Kathy Geritz and Steve Seid
Publisher University of California Press, and Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, 2010
ISBN 9780520249103, 0520249100
352 pages
Reviews: Molly H.Cox (Other Cinema, 2011), Lucy Raven (BOMB, 2011), Federico Windhausen (Moving Image, 2012), Mike Leggett (Leonardo, 2012).
Exhibition
Publisher (BAMPFA)
Publisher (UC Press)
WorldCat
multiple formats (on Internet Archive)
PDF (35 MB)
Jean-Marie Straub y Danièle Huillet: hacer la revolución es volver a colocar en su sitio cosas muy antiguas pero olvidadas (2016) [Spanish]
Filed under catalogue | Tags: · cinema, film, film criticism, film theory
“Primera monografía en español dedicada al cine de Jean-Marie Straub y Danièle Huillet, editada con motivo de la retrospectiva completa que el Museo dedicara a ambos cineastas en 2016. El libro es un proyecto complementario pero autónomo al ciclo y se concibe como una caja de herramientas para aproximarse desde diferentes perspectivas a un proyecto fílmico tan radical y exigente como el de Straub-Huillet. De esta manera, la crítica de Serge Daney se cita con el ensayo filosófico de Jacques Rancière y el análisis del paisaje de Santos Zunzunegui convive con la mirada a la historia de Jean Narboni. El estudio de los títulos de Manuel Ramos y una amplia entrevista cierran el libro. Complementan el volumen dos documentos de Glauber Rocha y Peter Handke, un epílogo de Pedro Costa y la filmografía completa en castellano.”
Autores: Manuel Asín, Chema González, Glauber Rocha, Serge Daney, Jean Narboni, Peter Handke, Jacques Rancière, Santos Zunzunegui, Manuel Ramos Martínez y François Albera.
Publisher Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2016
ISBN 9788480265430
238 pages
Culture as Organization in Early Soviet Thought: Bogdanov, Eisenstein, and the Proletkult (2016)
Filed under book, spherical book | Tags: · cinema, film, film theory, montage, philosophy, proletkult, russia, systems theory, tektology, theory
“This anthology brings together a group of film researchers, historians, political scientists and systems scientists to discuss historical and contemporary tangential points between the sciences and the arts in Russia during the first decades of the twentieth century. All chapters provide new insights into linkages between the arts, philosophy and other disciplines during this period. Tangential points between early Russian systems thinking and approaches to montage that were being developed within the film community are examined in detail. The contributing authors focus on two thinkers: the filmmaker, Sergei M. Eisenstein and the systems theorist, Aleksandr A. Bogdanov.”
The book is published in an interactive format inspired by Eisenstein’s idea of the “Spherical Book”, organising chapters in a thematic modular way, allowing for multiple reading perspectives.
Edited by Pia Tikka, with John Biggart, Vesa Oittinen, Giulia Rispoli, and Maja Soboleva
Publisher Aalto University School of Arts Design and Architecture, Helsinki, 2016
Tangential Points series
ISBN 9789526000763