A History of 1970s Experimental Film [electronic resource] : Britain's Decade of Diversity /
Gaal-Holmes, P.author.
This comprehensive historical account demonstrates the rich diversity in 1970s British experimental filmmaking, acting as a form of reclamation for films and filmmakers marginalized within established histories. An indispensable book for practitioners, historians and critics alike, it provides new interpretations of this rich and diverse history.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Questions of History; Historiography and history through curation; Accessibility to films; Whose history do we need?; 'Which History?'; The 'return to image' thesis; Concluding thoughts; 2 Institutional Frameworks and Organisational Strategies; Film workshops; Audience engagement; Independent Film-Maker's Association (IFA); Funding; The Arts Council Great Britain (ACGB) and the British Film Institute (BFI); The Attenborough Enquiry; Group funding and other alternatives; Distribution; Education
1970s screeningsConcluding thoughts; 3 Experimental Film and Other Visual Arts; Conceptualism, modernism and approaches to filmmaking; 'Black box' or 'white cube' and anti- commodification; Expanded cinema; Film experimentation; Jarman's painting, romanticism and 'sensuous' film; Colour Field painting and Cubism; Optical painting/optical film; Film and photography; Drawing on film; Land Art and landscape in film; Sculpting space; 'No-film' film; Concluding thoughts; 4 Visionary, Mythopoeia and Diary Films; Contexts for filmmaking; New considerations for 1970s British films
Psycho-dramatic trance, lyrical and mythopoeia in British filmsFire in the Water (1977); Vibration (1975) and Anti-Clock (1979); The Other Side of the Underneath (1972) and Central Bazaar (1976); 'Psycho-dramatic trance'; Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969) and Rayday Film (1968-70 and 1976); Lucifer Rising ( 1970-1981), In the Shadow of the Sun ( 1974-81) and The Art of Mirrors (1973); British 'diary' films; Ian Breakwell; B. S. Johnson; Margaret Tait; Anne Rees-Mogg; David Larcher; Concluding thoughts; 5 Experiments with Structure and Material; International exchanges
Theoretical perspectives for filmmaking: Sitney, Le Grice and GidalDistinctively British experimentation and the LFMC; Consolidating structural and material filmmaking: Le Grice and Gidal; Film experimentation; Film materiality; The objective and/or subjective ' camera-eye': Gidal and Brakhage; Anticipation through image construction; Humour, play and sound/image; Sound as narrative formation; Critiques of the formal ideological position; Concluding thoughts; 6 Women and Film; Political and theoretical frameworks for filmmaking; Questions of a feminine aesthetic
Diversity in women's filmmakingThe domestic; The gendered film text; A feminine aesthetic of ephemerality; History, language and ideology; Concluding thoughts; Conclusion: (Re)cognitions and (Re)considerations for This History; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This comprehensive historical account demonstrates the rich diversity in 1970s British experimental filmmaking, acting as a form of reclamation for films and filmmakers marginalized within established histories. An indispensable book for practitioners, historians and critics alike, it provides new interpretations of this rich and diverse history.
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