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Moving Images on the Margins - Experimental Film in Late Socialist East Germany (Hardcover)
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Moving Images on the Margins - Experimental Film in Late Socialist East Germany (Hardcover)
Series: Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual
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Documents the rich allusiveness and intellectual probity of
experimental filmmaking-a form that thrived despite having been
officially banned-in East German socialism's final years. In the
German Democratic Republic during the 1970s and 1980s, more than
two hundred films and videos, many of them experimental, were made
outside government-run institutions despite legal restrictions on
independent filmmaking, and despite the state-owned DEFA studio
system's resistance to experimental film. Many were by professional
artists who incorporated their painted, sculpted, and performed
works in their films and then re-integrated their films into their
other artistic endeavors. In addition to showing and debating their
films informally in private, these artists worked within existing
institutions, establishing annual meetings at Dresden's Academy of
Fine Arts, publishing on experimental film in official journals,
and even exhibiting films at the Academy of Arts in Berlin. Though
pursued as political subversives by the Stasi and dismissed as
dilettantes by older critics, these artists frequently engaged
their detractors in open debate, advancing their creative
itineraries by exposing conceptual problems lurking in the
histories of art and cinema. Through extensive archival research,
formal analyses of over a dozen films, and interpretation of their
relation to their creators' work in other media, Seth Howes
documents the rich allusiveness and intellectual probity of
experimental filmmaking in East German socialism's final years.
Individual chapters examine Lutz Dammbeck's incorporation of
painting, dance, literature, and experimental film into a critique
of the (mass-)mediation of experience; the
Autoperforationsartisten's use of film to problematize the notion
of the "performance document"; Greifswald-based artists'
integration of film into mail-art projects that crossed political
borders and boundaries between media; and Yana Milev's blending of
film and installation art to theorize the organization and
segmentation of urban spaces. Seth Howes is Assistant Professor of
German in the Department of German and Russian Studies at the
University of Missouri.
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