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Experimental Filmmaking and the Motion Picture Camera

Author : Joel Schlemowitz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429997035
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Experimental Filmmaking and the Motion Picture Camera written by Joel Schlemowitz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experimental Filmmaking and the Motion Picture Camera is an introductory guide to experimental filmmaking, surveying the practical methods of experimental film production as well as the history, theory, and aesthetics of experimental approaches. Author Joel Schlemowitz explains the basic mechanism of the camera before going on to discuss slow and fast motion filming, single-frame time lapse, the long take, camera movement, workings of the lens, and the use of in-camera effects such as double exposure. A comprehensive guide to using the 16mm Bolex camera is provided. Strategies for making films edited in-camera are covered. A range of equipment beyond the basic non-sync camera is surveyed. The movie diary and film portrait are examined, along with the work of a range of experimental filmmakers including Stan Brakhage, Rudy Burckhardt, Paul Clipson, Christopher Harris, Peter Hutton, Takahiko Iimura, Marie Losier, Rose Lowder, Jonas Mekas, Marie Menken, Margaret Rorison, Guy Sherwin, and Tomonari Nishikawa. This is the ideal book for students interested in experimental and alternative modes of filmmaking. It provides invaluable insight into the history, methods, and concepts inherent to experimental uses of the camera, while providing students with a solid foundation of techniques and practices to foster their development as filmmakers. Supplemental material, including links to films cited in the book, can be found at www.experimentalfilmmaking.com.

Experimental Filmmaking

Author : Kathryn Ramey
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1136071504
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Experimental Filmmaking written by Kathryn Ramey and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experimental Filmmaking emerges out of a deep and abiding love of celluloid and artisanal media practices and a personal exploration of the field of avant-garde and experimental film, animation and video produced since the beginnings of cinema. Although there have been many critical and historical books on the subject, with the exception of zines and hand-published volumes, there has never been a comprehensive instructional manual on experimental processes. This book will introduce film students and professional filmmakers alike to various methods of experimental animation, film and video production that involve material interventions into the normative process of the medium while offering brief introductions to artists and their works.

Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture

Author : Powers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019768338X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture written by Powers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bolex camera, 16mm reversal film stocks, commercial film laboratories, and low-budget optical printers were the small-gauge media technologies that provided the infrastructure for experimental filmmaking at the height of its cultural impact. Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture examines how the avant-garde embraced these material resources and invested them with meanings and values adjacent to those of semiprofessional film culture. By reasserting the physicality of the body in making time-lapse and kinesthetic sequences with the Bolex, filmmakers conversed with other art forms and integrated broader spheres of humanistic and scientific inquiry into their artistic process. Drawing from the photographic qualities of stocks such as Tri-X and Kodachrome, they discovered pliant metaphors that allowed them to connect their artistic practice to metaphysics, spiritualism, and Hollywood excess. By framing film labs as mystical or adversarial, they cultivated an oppositionality that valorized control over the artistic process. And by using the optical printer as a tool for excavating latent meaning out of found footage, they posited the reworking of images as fundamental to the exploration of personal and cultural identity. Providing a wealth of new detail about the making of canonized avant-garde classics by such luminaries as Carolee Schneemann, Jack Smith, and Stan Brakhage, as well as rediscovering works from overlooked artists such as Chick Strand, Amy Halpern, and Gunvor Nelson, Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture uses technology as a lens for examining the process of making: where ideas come from, how they are put into practice, and how arguments about those ideas foster cultural and artistic commitments and communities.

Direct Theory

Author : Edward S. Small
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809332140
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Direct Theory written by Edward S. Small and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2013-08-02 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making the case for the significance of experimental motion pictures Undulating water patterns; designs etched or painted directly onto clear or black film leader; computer-generated, pulsating, multihued light tapestries—the visual images that often constitute experimental motion pictures are unlike anything found in either fictive narratives or documentary works. Thus, Direct Theory provides an historical and theoretical survey of this overlooked and misunderstood body of international films, videos, and digital productions that offers a strong case for the understanding of experimental motion pictures as a separate, major motion picture genre. In a radical revision of film-theory that incorporates Ferdinand de Saussure's semiotic system, and adds to it historian Raymond Fielding’s technological determinism, Edward S. Small and Timothy W. Johnson argue that experimental moviemaking constitutes a special mode of theory that bypasses written and spoken words. By exploring the development of experimental motion pictures over nine decades, they trace the practice from its beginnings in the European avant-garde movement in the 1920s, through American underground productions, into international structuralist works that marked the experimental films of the 1970’s, and finally the digital experimental innovations of the twenty-first century. To demonstrate that the aesthetic of experimental motion pictures is best understood separately from other major film genres such as fictive narrative and documentary, Small and Johnson highlight eight defining technical and structural characteristics of experimental productions, including the autonomy of the artist, economic independence, brevity, and the use of dreams, reveries, hallucinations, and other mental imagery. They also highlight a number of films, including Ralph Steiner’s 1929 H2Oand Bruce Conner’s 1958 A Movie,and provide a sampling of frames from them to demonstrate that the heightened reflexivity of these films transmit meaning through images rather than words. A deft historical interweaving of experimental production and scholarly discourse, this thought-provoking work firmly establishes the importance of experimental motion pictures in the discipline of film studies (theory and history) and production.

Alternative Projections

Author : David E. James
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 086196909X
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Alternative Projections written by David E. James and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-13 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of papers discussing Los Angeles’s role in avant-garde, experimental, and minority filmmaking. Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980 is a groundbreaking anthology that features papers from a conference and series of film screenings on postwar avant-garde filmmaking in Los Angeles sponsored by Filmforum, the Getty Foundation, and the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, together with newly-commissioned essays, an account of the screening series, reprints of historical documents by and about experimental filmmakers in the region, and other rare photographs and ephemera. The resulting diverse and multi-voiced collection is of great importance, not simply for its relevance to Los Angeles, but also for its general discoveries and projections about alternative cinemas. “Alternative Projections provides a useful corollary and often a corrective to what has become a somewhat unilateral approach to experimental cinema in the period taken up here.” —Millennium Film Journal “[T]here are enough examples of ingenuity and achievement contained in this volume to unite a new generation of independent artists, exhibitors, and audiences in maintaining a viable outlet for cinematic creativity in Los Angeles.” —Los Angeles Review of Books

Women's Experimental Cinema

Author : Robin Blaetz
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822340447
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Women's Experimental Cinema written by Robin Blaetz and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers introductions to the work of fifteen avant-garde American women filmmakers.

EDISON MOTION PICTURES

Author : MUSSER CHARLES
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book EDISON MOTION PICTURES written by MUSSER CHARLES and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1997 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides essential documentation of all known Edison films made between 1890 and 1900. Thomas Edison and his associates at the Edison Laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey, invented the first system of commercial motion pictures." "Making the historical framework predominant while retaining traditional cataloging features, Edison Motion Pictures, 18901900 is of value to a wide range of scholars interested in American life at the turn of the century - those working in performance studies, film and media studies, cultural history, ethnic studies, and social and political history. Documentary filmmakers, film programmers, archivists, and librarians can also benefit from using this catalog." "Edison films from the end of the nineteenth century offer a unique visual record of American entertainment and popular culture - moving images that become much more interesting and useful when they can be examined in conjunction with pertinent documentation." "Scholars concerned with portrayals of war, depictions of the American presidency, and many other topics in the nation's political history will find much useful information."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Women and Experimental Filmmaking

Author : Jean Petrolle
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252030062
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Women and Experimental Filmmaking written by Jean Petrolle and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women and Experimental Filmmaking gathers essays by some of the top scholars in cinema studies dealing with women experimental filmmakers. Tracking the topic across racial, economic, geographic, and even temporal boundaries, Jean Petrolle and Virginia Wexman's selections refiect the deep diversity of methodologies and research. The introduction sets out by addressing the basic difficulties of both historiography and definition before providing a historical overview of how these particular filmmakers have helped shape moviemaking traditions. The essays explore the major theoretical controversies that have arisen around the work of groundbreaking women such as Leslie Thornton, Su Friedrich, Nina Menkes, and Faith Hubley. With the film- makers representations of women's subjectivity ranging across film, video, digital media, ethnography, animation, and collage, Women and Experimental Filmmaking represents the full spectrum of genres, techniques, and modes.

Experimental Film and Photochemical Practices

Author : Kim Knowles
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030443094
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Experimental Film and Photochemical Practices written by Kim Knowles and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assesses the contemporary status of photochemical film practice against a backdrop of technological transition and obsolescence. It argues for the continued relevance of material engagement for opening up alternative ways of seeing and sensing the world. Questioning narratives of replacement and notions of fetishism and nostalgia, the book sketches out the contours of a photochemical renaissance driven by collective passion, creative resistance and artistic reinvention. Celluloid processes continue to play a key role in the evolution of experimental film aesthetics and this book takes a personal journey into the work of several key contemporary film artists. It provides fresh insight into the communities and infrastructures that sustain this vibrant field and mobilises a wide range of theoretical perspectives drawn from media archaeology, new materialism, ecocriticism and social ecology.

Experimental Cinema

Author : Wheeler W. Dixon
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415277877
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (778 download)

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Download or read book Experimental Cinema written by Wheeler W. Dixon and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together key writings on American avant-garde cinema to explore the long tradition of underground filmmaking from its origins in the 1920s to the work of contemporary film and video artists.

Avant-garde Film

Author : Michael O'Pray
Publisher : Wallflower Press
ISBN 13 : 9781903364567
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (645 download)

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Download or read book Avant-garde Film written by Michael O'Pray and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Few aspects of American military history have been as vigorously debated as Harry Truman's decision to use atomic bombs against Japan. In this carefully crafted volume, Michael Kort describes the wartime circumstances and thinking that form the context for the decision to use these weapons, surveys the major debates related to that decision, and provides a comprehensive collection of key primary source documents that illuminate the behavior of the United States and Japan during the closing days of World War II. Kort opens with a summary of the debate over Hiroshima as it has evolved since 1945. He then provides a historical overview of thye events in question, beginning with the decision and program to build the atomic bomb. Detailing the sequence of events leading to Japan's surrender, he revisits the decisive battles of the Pacific War and the motivations of American and Japanese leaders. Finally, Kort examines ten key issues in the discussion of Hiroshima and guides readers to relevant primary source documents, scholarly books, and articles.

Movement as Meaning in Experimental Cinema

Author : Daniel Barnett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501329820
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Movement as Meaning in Experimental Cinema written by Daniel Barnett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Movement as Meaning in Experimental Cinema offers sweeping and cogent arguments as to why analytic philosophers should take experimental cinema seriously as a medium for illuminating mechanisms of meaning in language. Using the analogy of the movie projector, Barnett deconstructs all communication acts into functions of interval, repetition and context. He describes how Wittgenstein's concepts of family resemblance and language games provide a dynamic perspective on the analysis of acts of reference. He then develops a hyper-simplified formula of movement as meaning to discuss, with true equivalence, the process of reference as it occurs in natural language, technical language, poetic language, painting, photography, music, and of course, cinema. Barnett then applies his analytic technique to an original perspective on cine-poetics based on Paul Valery's concept of omnivalence, and to a projection of how this style of analysis, derived from analog cinema, can help us clarify our view of the digital mediasphere and its relation to consciousness. Informed by the philosophy of Quine, Dennett, Merleau-Ponty as well as the later work of Wittgenstein, among others, he uses the film work of Stan Brakhage, Tony Conrad, A.K. Dewdney, Nathaniel Dorsky, Ken Jacobs, Owen Land, Saul Levine, Gregory Markopoulos Michael Snow, and the poetry of Basho, John Cage, John Cayley and Paul Valery to illustrate the power of his unique perspective on meaning.

A History of Experimental Film and Video

Author : A.L. Rees
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838714197
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book A History of Experimental Film and Video written by A.L. Rees and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avant-garde film is almost indefinable. It is in a constant state of change and redefinition. In his highly-acclaimed history of experimental film, A.L. Rees tracks the movement of the film avant-garde between the cinema and modern art (with its postmodern coda). But he also reconstitutes the film avant-garde as an independent form of art practice with its own internal logic and aesthetic discourse. In this revised and updated edition, Rees introduces experimental film and video to new readers interested in the wider cinema, as well as offering a guide to enthusiasts of avant-garde film and new media arts. Ranging from Cézanne and Dada, via Cocteau, Brakhage and Le Grice, to the new wave of British film and video artists from the 1990s to the present day, this expansive study situates avant-garde film between the cinema and the gallery, with many links to sonic as well as visual arts. The new edition includes a review of current scholarship in avant-garde film history and includes updated reading and viewing lists. It also features a new introduction and concluding chapter, which assess the rise of video projection in the gallery since the millennium, and describe new work by the latest generation of experimental film-makers. The new edition is richly illustrated with images of the art works discussed.

Lovers of Cinema

Author : Jan-Christopher Horak
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299146849
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (468 download)

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Download or read book Lovers of Cinema written by Jan-Christopher Horak and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians and students of American avant-garde cinema often overlook the films of the 1920s through the early 1940s, considering them mere derivatives of their European counterparts. In fact, the American films possess an eclecticism, innovation, and naivete all their own. Marshaling his broad cinematic and cultural knowledge, editor Jan-Christopher Horak has compiled in Lovers of Cinema a ground-breaking group of articles on this neglected film period. With one exception, all are original to this volume, and many are the first to treat comprehensively such early filmmakers as Mary Ellen Bute, Theodore Huff, and Douglass Crockwell.

Experimental Cinema

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture

Author : John Powers (College teacher)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780197683415
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture written by John Powers (College teacher) and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1972, the filmmaker John Luther Schofill lured two promising students, Bill Brand and Louis Hock, to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago to join the newly inaugurated film department. Brand was tantalized by the prospect of getting his hands on the school's optical printer, which would allow him to submit his images to repetition, multiplication, and other forms of synthetic transformation through rephotography. For several years, the promise of rephotography had inspired Brand to invent one-off devices for his own films and those of Paul Sharits, his mentor at Antioch College. Upon arrival in Chicago, however, Brand learned that, in fact, no printer existed--he had been recruited to build one. Meanwhile, Hock found himself in need of a financial stipend. At Schofill's behest, the pair was charged with fashioning a newly purchased Mauer camera and a heavy industrial lathe bed into a do-it-yourself (DIY) optical printer--"one piece at a time, putting things in place, modified as we went along," Hock recalled. Homemade optical printers (and their mass-produced offshoot, the JK optical printer) were appearing at other schools, too, providing the first generation of experimental film students with easier access to the technology. Within a decade, the optical printer became a mainstay of MFA programs and filmmaker's cooperatives, as fundamental to avant-garde practice as Bolex cameras and reversal stocks. Meanwhile, the practice itself became routinized, a skill that could be acquired. In hindsight, P. Adams Sitney remarked, "just as rapid editing with invisible splice marks had, for many filmmakers, become a mark of aesthetic authority in the early sixties, optical printing represented technical mastery in the seventies." His observation affirms that technical sophistication had become an important distinction in experimental filmmaking, but it also suggests that the optical printer came to instantiate aesthetic, cultural, and even philosophical values. What were these values, and where did they come from?"--

Movement as Meaning in Experimental Film

Author : Daniel Barnett
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401205744
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Movement as Meaning in Experimental Film written by Daniel Barnett and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers sweeping and cogent arguments as to why analytic philosophers should take experimental cinema seriously as a medium for illuminating mechanisms of meaning in language. Using the analogy of the movie projector, Barnett deconstructs all communication acts into functions of interval, repetition and context. He describes how Wittgenstein’s concepts of family resemblance and language games provide a dynamic perspective on the analysis of acts of reference. He then develops a hyper-simplified formula of movement as meaning to discuss, with true equivalence, the process of reference as it occurs in natural language, technical language, poetic language, painting, photography, music, and of course, cinema. Barnett then applies his analytic technique to an original perspective on cine-poetics based on Paul Valery’s concept of omnivalence, and to a projection of how this style of analysis, derived from analog cinema, can help us clarify our view of the digital mediasphere and its relation to consciousness. Informed by the philosophy of Quine, Dennett, Merleau-Ponty as well as the later work of Wittgenstein, among others, he uses the film work of Stan Brakhage, Tony Conrad, A.K. Dewdney, Nathaniel Dorsky, Ken Jacobs, Owen Land, Saul Levine, Gregory Markopoulos Michael Snow, and the poetry of Basho, John Cage, John Cayley and Paul Valery to illustrate the power of his unique perspective on meaning.