Experimental Film and Photochemical Practices

by Kim Knowles

Overview

This book assesses the contemporary status of phohemical film practice against a backdrop of technological transition and obsolescence. It argues for the continued relevance of material engagement for opening up alternative ways of seeing and sensing the world. Questioning narratives of replacement and notions of fetishism and nostalgia, the book sketches out the contours of a phohemical renaissance driven by collective passion, creative resistance and artistic reinvention. Celluloid processes continue to play a key role in the evolution of experimental film aesthetics and this book takes a personal journey into the work of several key contemporary film artists. It provides fresh insight into the communities and infrastructures that sustain this vibrant field and mobilises a wide range of theoretical perspectives drawn from media archaeology, new materialism, ecocriticism and social ecology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030443085
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	09/30/2020
Series:	Experimental Film and Artists' Moving Image
Edition description:	1st ed. 2020
Pages:	255
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Kim Knowles lectures in Alternative and Experimental Film at Aberystwyth University in Wales and curates the Black Box strand of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. She is the author of A Cinematic Artist: The Films of Man Ray (2009) and co-editor (with Marion Schmid) of Cinematic Intermediality: Theory and Practice (2021).

Table of Contents

Introduction.- Chapter 1: From Materialist Film to New Materialism.- Chapter 2: The Politics of Process.- Chapter 3: Expanded Cinema and Material Excess.- Chapter 4: Alternative Communities.- Chapter 5: The Dialectics of Old and New.- Conclusion.