A Companion to Experimental Cinema (eBook)

Federico Windhausen is a film historian and curator. His scholarly articles have been published in journals such as October, MIRAJ, Hitchcock Annual, Grey Room, and The Moving Image. He has programmed for the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Ambulante, the London Film Festival, L'Âge d'Or Festival, and various other venues.

Contributors vii

1 Introduction 1
Federico Windhausen

Part I Overviews 15

2 Poetry and "Film Poetics" 17
Sarah Keller

3 Cinematic Specificity, Intermediality, and the European Avant-Garde 40
Malcolm Turvey

4 Expanded Cinema: Then and Now 59
Jonathan Walley

5 Sketches of Spain: The Production and Circulation of Spanish Experimental Cinema 84
Josetxo Cerdán and Miguel Fernández Labayen

6 The Underground and the Institution: Spaces and Practices of French Experimental Film (1950-1980) 111
Enrico Camporesi

7 Hollywood as Home Movies: Queer Diaristic Film & Video 136
Jon Davies

8 Nothing Clarifies an Image Like Another Image: New Approaches to Found Footage Filmmaking 160
Erica Levin

9 Disquieting Soundtracks: The Sonorities of Experimental Cinema 182
Juan A. Suárez

10 Music Visualization and Medium Expansion: Key Themes in Experimental Animation 210
Paul Taberham

Part II Case Studies 231

11 Collage, Montage and Assemblage: The Instantaneity of Frames in Gregory J. Markopoulos' Cinema 233
François Bovier (translated by Miranda Stewart)

12 Experiment, Cybernetics, and the Formal Film in Britain 260
Lucy Reynolds

13 Agitation and Involvement: Narcisa Hirsch's Come Out and Michael Snow's Wavelength 284
Federico Windhausen

14 Rebellion of the Body: Hijikata Tatsumi, Performance Documentation and Japanese Experimental Film 307
Julian Ross

15 Feminist Filmmaking from the Ground Up: Three Films from the 1980s 325
Michele Pierson

16 Barbara Hammer, Optical Printing, and a Theory of Touch 349
John Powers

Part III Exchanges 369

17 Approaching India: Remarks on a Diversity of Moving Image Practices 371
Lalitha Gopalan, Shai Heredia, and Shanay Jhaveri

18 On the Visibility of Women's Experimental Cinema: Birgit Hein and Ute Aurand in Germany 390
Sylvia Schedelbauer

19 "Where Are Those Lines?": Discussions about and around Experimental Ethnography with Sky Hopinka, Naeem Mohaiemen and Deborah Stratman 410
Jason Fox

20 Platform, Showcase, Gathering, Exchange: A Conversation about Film Festivals with Erika Balsom, George Clark, Chris Kennedy, Eduardo Thomas, and Koyo Yamashita 433
Chris Kennedy

Index 453