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Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture
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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.
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Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
August 2023 |
Authors: |
John Powers
(Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies)
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Dimensions: |
235 x 156mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
280 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-768339-2 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-19-768339-8 |
Barcode: |
9780197683392 |
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