Fields of View

A.L. Rees was Head of the Time Based Media course at Maidstone College of Art from 1988 – 1995 and then Research Tutor at the Royal College of Art until 2014. At various times he was the chair of the Arts Council’s artists’ film and video committee, and an adviser on experimental film to the British Film Institute, Tate, the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Channel 4. His book A History of Experimental Film and Video (BFI, 1999/2011) remains a key text, supplemented by the wide range of essays he wrote for journals and books on film and art. Simon Payne is Reader in Film and Media Studies at Anglia Ruskin University,UK. In addition, he is an experimental video maker whose work has shown in numerous venues including Tate Modern; the Serpentine Gallery; The Hermitage, St Petersburg and the London, Edinburgh and Rotterdam Film Festivals. He has written widely on experimental film and video, and recently co-edited Kurt Kren: Structural Film with Nicky Hamlyn and A.L. Rees.

Foreword: Harvesting Fields
Acknowledgements
Fields
Film Machine
Film as Optic and Idea
Expanding Cinema
Room Films
Film Objects
Projection Space
Time Frames
Realisms
Asymptote
Digital Dialectic
Fields in Braque and Gehr
Classic Film Theory and the Spectator
Field and Gestalt
Monet, Lumière and Cinematic Time
Displacement, Sculpture
Bodies in Motion
Intervals
Methods of Montage
Frames
Frames and Windows
Constructivism and Computers
Geometry of Intervals

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