Cinim, 1-3 (1967-1969)

Cinim, the first in-house magazine of the London Filmmakers Co-operative which was published between 1967-1969. The magazines offer a fascinating picture of the early days of the Co-op as well as landscape of film and art in which it operated at the time. Cinim was edited by Philip Crick and Simon Hartog with production by Bob Cobbing and Steve Dwoskin and includes writing by Jonas Mekas, Ray Durgnat, Ron Geesin, Omar Diop, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alex Viany, Norman Fruchter amongst others.

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Thomas Elsaesser (ed.): Harun Farocki: Working on the Sightlines (2004)

“For more than thirty years Harun Farocki has been a filmmaker, documentarist, film-essayist and installation artist. What preoccupies him above all is not so much an image of life, but the life of images, as they surround us in the newspapers, the cinema, history books, user manuals, posters, CCTV footage and advertising.

His vast oeuvre of some sixty films includes three feature films (Zwischen den Kriegen/Between the Wars, Etwas wird sichtbar: Vietnam/In Your Eyes: Vietnam, Wie Man sieht/As You See), essay films (e.g. Images of the World-Inscription of War), critical media-pieces, experimental work, children’s features for television, historical film essays (e.g. on Peter Lorre), `learning-films’ in the tradition of Brecht (e.g. Workers Leaving the Factory) and installation pieces (e.g. Still Life).

In this monograph, Elsaesser approaches Farocki’s work from different critical perspectives, as well as reflecting on his extraordinary biography. The volume is complemented by interviews, a selection of writings by Farocki and an annotated filmography.”

Publisher Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2004
Film Culture in Transition series
ISBN 905356635X, 9789053566350
379+[32] pages

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Independent America: New Film 1978-1988 (1988)

“Independent America: New Film 1978-1988 is an overview of personal, experimental American filmmaking of the past decade. Though some of these films have achieved modest theatrical success, most are distinctly non-commercial. Many are hard to categorize, ignoring established boundaries within ‘fiction’, ‘documentary’, ‘avant-garde’, and ‘animation’, labels that have had the harmful effect of creating ghettoes within the larger ghetto of independent film. There is enormous diversity among the 147 films included in this survey.” (from the Introduction)

The exhibition was held on October 7 – November 11, 1988.

With texts by Jonathan Rosenbaum, Steve Anker, Berenice Reynaud, David Schwartz.

Edited by David Schwartz
Publisher American Museum of the Moving Image, New York, 1988
93 pages
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Commentary: Jonathan Rosenbaum (2009).

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