Experimental Film and Photochemical Practices

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 proces...