You may want to look at James Peterson's "Dreams of Chaos, Visions of Order" (1994) for a cognitive approach to the avant-garde. There's a more recent edition to Sitney's book as well (2001, I think). Cheers,
P.Mather
Nicky Hamlyn <[log in to unmask]> 11/24/2010 1:59 pm >>>
Why are you limiting yourself to the 1950s for experimental film? That
means Robert Frank, Maya Deren, Marie Menken, early Brakhage, one or
two other things. Why not the 60s and 70s, when so much exciting work
was made?
Re books, you should also look at A.L.Rees: A History of Experimental
Film and Video, which also deals with 80s and 90s work. Also look at
books by Chris Meigh-Andrews, Yvonne Spielmann and Cate Elwes. My own
book Film Art Phenomena covers a range of recent and not so recent work.
Nicky Hamlyn.
On 24 Nov 2010, at 15:52, Steffen Moestrup wrote:
Thanks for some great suggestions on further reading and web sites.
Some of you asked for further details on my project. Right now I am
just trying to narrow down the project. However, my main thoughts
are to examine how production, content, screening and debating
culture in the avantgarde film has changed in the digital age - and
I will use the 1950s undergound cinema and the 1980s video art scene
as a historical (contrast).
So basically want I am looking for are sites or communities that
produce, screen and/or discuss experimental/avantgarde film.
My reading list at the moment consist of these works:
Bogost, Ian. Unit Operations - an approach to videogame criticism.
2006
Brakhage, Stan. Essential Brakhage - Selected Writings on
Filmmaking. 2001
Le Grice, Malcolm. Experimental cinema in the digital age. 2001
Reekie, Duncan. Subversion: the definitive history of underground
cinema. 2007
Sitney, P. Adams. Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde. 1974
Wheeler Winston-Dixon. Experimental cinema : the film reader. 2002
I will of course also be very happy to receive suggestions on
further reading, especially articles dealing with the digital impact
on the films and the way they are screened and distributed. A lot of
the books out there mainly deal with the historical aspects and very
little with contemporary avantgarde film and the digital culture
surrounding it.
Hope it makes some sense.
Steffen
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