Title: After the avant-garde : contemporary German and Austrian experimental film /
Authors: Halle, Randall; Steingröver, Reinhild.
Publisher: Camden House,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Experimental films Germany History and criticism.
Abstract: "Filmmaking in Germany and Austria has changed dramatically in the last decades with digitalization and the use of video and the Internet. Yet despite predictions of a negative effect on experimental film, the German and Austrian filmscape is filled with dynamic new experiments, as new technological possibilities push a break with the past, encouraging artists to find new forms. This volume of theoretically engaged essays explores this new landscape, introducing the work of established and emerging filmmakers, offering assessments of the intent and effect of their productions, and describing overall trends. It also explores the relationship of today's artists to the historical avant-garde, revealing a vibrant form of artistic engagement that has a history but has certainly not ended."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: The future of "art" and "work" in the age of vision machines : Harun Farocki / Thomas Elsaesser -- The embodied film : Austrian contributions to experimental cinema / Bernadette Wegenstein -- Interview with filmmaker Birgit Hein / Randall Halle, Reinhild Steingröver -- Videorebels : actions and interventions of the German video-avant-garde / Annette Jael Lehmann -- Media in the interim : independent film in East Germany before and after 1989 / Claus Löser -- Blackbox GDR : DEFA's untimely avant-garde / Reinhild Steingröver -- In your face : activism, agit-prop, and the autonomy of migration; the case of Kanak Attak / Nanna Heidenreich, Vojin Saša Vukadinović -- Rapidly expanding cinema : on border rescue and the tendentiousness of interventionist art / Randall Halle -- The post-pop hauntings of Bjorn Melhus / Alice A. Kuzniar -- Schlingensief's peep-show : post-cinematic spectacles and the public space of history / Richard Langston -- From the diary to the Webcam : Michael Brynntrup and the medial self / Robin Curtiss -- QWERTY cinema : Christoph Girardet/Matthias Müller's Phoenix tapes / Rembert Hüser -- Kirsten Winter : from avant-garde to second modernity / Larson Powell -- The representation of space in the films of Heinz Emigholz / Owen Lyons -- Shocking the audience, shocking the artist : aesthetic affinities to the avant-garde in Elke Krystufek's work / Christina Schmid.