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
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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

Zack Furness (ed.): Punkademics: The Basement Show in the Ivory Tower (2012)

In the thirty years since Dick Hebdige published Subculture: The Meaning of Style, the seemingly antithetical worlds of punk rock and academia have converged in some rather interesting, if not peculiar, ways. A once marginal subculture documented in homemade ‘zines and three chord songs has become fodder for dozens of scholarly articles, books, PhD dissertations, and conversations amongst well-mannered conference panelists. At the same time, the academic ranks have been increasingly infiltrated by professors and graduate students whose educations began not in the classroom, but in the lyric sheets of 7” records and the cramped confines of all-ages shows.

Punkademics explores these varied intersections by giving voice to some of the people who arguably best understand the odd bedfellows of punk and academia. In addition to being one of the first edited collections of scholarly work on punk, it is a timely book that features original essays, interviews, and select reprints from notable writers, musicians, visual artists, and emerging talents who actively cut & paste the boundaries between punk culture, politics, and higher education.

Contributors: Milo J. Aukerman, Maria Elena Buszek, Zack Furness, Alastair Gordon, Ross Haenfler, Curry Malott, Dylan AT Miner, Ryan Moore, Tavia Nyong’o, Mimi Thi Nguyen, Alan O’Connor, Waleed Rashidi, Helen L. Reddington, Stevphen Shukaitis, Michael Siciliano, Rubén Ortiz-Torres, Estrella Torrez, Daniel S. Traber, and Brian Tucker.

Publisher Minor Compositions, an imprint of Autonomedia, 9 May 2012
ISBN 978-1-57027-229-5
232 pages

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Anders Rydell, Sam Sundberg: Piraterna: De svenska fildelarna som plundrade Hollywood (2009) [Swedish]

The Pirate Bay, Piratpartiet och Piratbyrån befinner sig i främsta ledet av en global folkrörelse: alla de miljoner människor som fildelar. För vissa är piraterna hjältar, för andra är de terrorister som hotar att rasera hela musik- och filmbranschen. I Sam Sundbergs och Anders Rydells djuplodande reportage får läsaren lära känna piraterna – hur de lever, hur de tänker och vad som driver dem. Går det att stoppa dem, eller har illegal fildelning blivit så accepterat att det redan är för sent? Oavsett vad man tycker om den olagliga fildelningen så har den kommit att bli tjugohundratalets viktigaste svenska kulturexport.

Publisher Ordfront Förlag, Stockholm, February 2009
ISBN 9789170373206
235 pages

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