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• Biographies (4) • Essays (8) • Studies (79) • Interviews (3) • Stories (6) • Screenplays (1) • Photos (1) • Didactic (1) • Filmmakers' writings (4)
• Biographies (3) • Essays (3) • Studies (31) • Interviews (0) • Stories (3) • Screenplays (1) • Photos (1) • Didactic (0) • Filmmakers' writings (2)
• Biographies (4 books)(3 books)
Hollis Frampton (2023)
Navigating the Infinite Cinema
by Michael Zryd
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Director > Hollis Frampton
William Greaves (2021)
Filmmaking as Mission
Dir. Scott MacDonald and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Director > William Greaves
Walter Ruttmann and the Cinema of Multiplicity (2014)
Avant-Garde - Advertising - Modernity
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Director > Walter Ruttmann
• Essays (8 books)(3 books)
A Companion to Experimental Film (2025)
Dir. Federico Windhausen
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Subject: Genre > Experimental
At the Edges of Sleep (2022)
Moving Images and Somnolent Spectators
by Jean Ma
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Border Cinema (2019)
Reimagining Identity through Aesthetics
Dir. Monica Hanna and Rebecca A. Sheehan
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Everyday Cinema (2017)
The Films of Marc Lafia
by Marc Lafia
Publisher: Punctum Books
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Ex-Cinema (2012)
From a Theory of Experimental Film and Video
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Sequences (2009)
Contemporary Chronophotography and Experimental Digital Art
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
This Is Called Moving (2005)
A Critical Poetics of Film
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
• Studies (79 books)(31 books)
Cinemal (2025)
The Becoming-Animal of Experimental Film
by Tessa Laird
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Films That Spill (2025)
Beyond the Cinema of Transgression
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Expanding Cinemas (2024)
Experimental Filmmaking across the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic since 1960
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Harun Farocki (2024)
Forms of Intelligence
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Director > Harun Farocki
Experimental Film and Queer Materiality (2024)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Decolonial Imaginaries in Palestinian Experimental Film and Video (2024)
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Countries > Middle East
Performative Images (2023)
A Philosophy of Video Art Technology in France
by Anaïs Nony
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture (2023)
by John Powers
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Technique > Cinematography
Exovede in the Darkroom (2023)
The Films of Rhayne Vermette
Dir. Stephen Broomer and Irene Bindi
Publisher: Arp Books
Subject: Director > Rhayne Vermette
Lost Highways, Embodied Travels (2023)
The Road Movie in American Experimental Film and Video
Publisher: Brill
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Harry Smith (2022)
American Magus
Dir. Paola Igliori
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Experimental Cinemas in State-Socialist Eastern Europe (2022)
Dir. Ksenya Gurshtein and Sonja Simonyi
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
London's Arts Labs and the 60s Avant-Garde (2020)
by David Curtis
Publisher: John Libbey Publishing
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Experimental Film and Photochemical Practices (2020)
by Kim Knowles
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Performing Moving Images (2020)
Access, Archives and Affects
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Experimental and Independent Italian Cinema (2020)
Legacies and Transformations into the Twenty-First Century
Dir. Anthony Cristiano and Carlo Coen
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Absence in Cinema (2020)
The Art of Showing Nothing
by Justin Remes
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
American Avant-Garde Cinema's Philosophy of the In-Between (2020)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Making Images Move (2020)
Handmade Cinema and the Other Arts
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Japanese Avant-Garde and Experimental Film (2019)
Publisher: Peter Lang
Moving Images on the Margins (2019)
Experimental Film in Late Socialist East Germany
by Seth Howes
Publisher: Camden House
Process Cinema (2019)
Handmade Film in the Digital Age
Dir. Scott MacKenzie and Janine Marchessault
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Experimental Animation (2019)
From Analogue to Digital
Dir. Miriam Harris, Lilly Husbands and Paul Taberham
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Experimental and Expanded Animation (2018)
New Perspectives and Practices
Dir. Vicky Smith and Nicky Hamlyn
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Between Film, Video, and the Digital (2018)
Hybrid Moving Images in the Post-Media Age
by Jihoon Kim
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Futurist Cinema (2018)
Studies on Italian Avant-garde Film
Dir. Rossella Catanese
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
The Films of Bill Morrison (2018)
Aesthetics of the Archive
Dir. Bernd Herzogenrath
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Director > Bill Morrison
The Music and Sound of Experimental Film (2017)
Dir. Holly Rogers and Jeremy Barham
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
After Uniqueness (2017)
A History of Film and Video Art in Circulation
by Erika Balsom
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Visions of Avant-Garde Film (2016)
Polish Cinematic Experiments from Expressionism to Constructivism
by Kamila Kuc
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Dreamlands (2016)
Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016
Publisher: Yale University Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
The Multisensory Film Experience (2016)
A Cognitive Model of Experiental Film Aesthetics
Publisher: Intellect Books
Subject: Genre > Experimental
The Incurable-Image (2016)
Curating Post-Mexican Film and Media Arts
by Tarek Elhaik
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Hamilton Babylon (2016)
A History of the Mcmaster Film Board
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Awakening the Eye (2015)
Robert Frank's American Cinema
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Subject: Director > Robert Frank
Documents of Utopia (2015)
The Politics of Experimental Documentary
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
A History of 1970s Experimental Film (2015)
Britain's Decade of Diversity
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Motion(less) Pictures (2015)
The Cinema of Stasis
by Justin Remes
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Off-Screen Cinema (2015)
Isidore Isou and the Lettrist Avant-Garde
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
The Films of Richard Myers (2015)
Publisher: The Kent State University Press
Subject: Director > Richard Myers
Flesh Cinema PB (2014)
The Corporeal Turn in American Avant-Garde Film
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
The Struggle for Form (2014)
Perspectives on Polish Avant-Garde Film, 1916–1989
Dir. Kamila Kuc and Michael O'Pray
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Direct Theory (2013)
Experimental Motion Pictures as Major Genre
by Edward S. Small and Timothy W. Johnson
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Experimental Latin American Cinema (2013)
History and Aesthetics
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Subject: Countries > Latin America
Film Unframed (2012)
A History of Austrian Avant-Garde Cinema
Dir. Peter Tscherkassky
Publisher: Austrian Film Museum
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Cinema by Other Means (2012)
by Pavle Levi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Reaching Audiences (2012)
Distribution and Promotion of Alternative Moving Image
by Julia Knight and Peter Thomas
Publisher: Intellect Books
Subject: Economics
A History of Experimental Film and Video (2011)
From the Canonical Avant-Garde to Contemporary British Practice
by A. L. Rees
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Optic Antics (2011)
The Cinema of Ken Jacobs
Dir. Michele Pierson, David E. James and Paul Arthur
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Director > Ken Jacobs
Artaud-Dulac (2009)
La Coquille et le Clergyman, The Seashell and the Clergyman
by Odette Virmaux and Alain Virmaux
Publisher: Paris expérimental
(in French and English)
Subject: One Film > The Seashell and the Clergyman
After the Avant-Garde (2008)
Contemporary German and Austrian Experimental Film
Dir. Randall Norman Halle and Reinhild Steingröver
Publisher: Camden House
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Eyes Upside Down (2008)
Visionary Filmmakers and the Heritage of Emerson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Women's Experimental Cinema (2007)
Critical Frameworks
Dir. Robin Blaetz
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
The Unsilvered Screen (2007)
Surrealism on Film
Dir. Graeme Harper and Rob Stone
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Zanzibar (2006)
Les films Zanzibar et les dandys de mai 1968
by Sally Shafto
Publisher: Paris expérimental
(in French and English)
Subject: Genre > Experimental
The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson (2005)
Secret Agents, Private I
Dir. Meredith Tromble
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > Lynn Hershman Leeson
Women And Experimental Filmmaking (2005)
by Leslie Thornton, Su Friedrich, Nina Menkes and Faith Hubley
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Shadows, Specters, Shards (2005)
Making History In Avant-Garde Film
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Andy Warhol (2005)
Le cinéma comme 'Braille Mental'
Publisher: Paris expérimental
(in French and English)
Subject: Director > Andy Warhol
The Most Typical Avant-Garde (2005)
History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles
by David James
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
A Line Of Sight (2005)
American Avant-Garde Film Since 1965
by Paul Arthur
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Recycled Culture in Contemporary Art and Film (2003)
The Uses of Nostalgia
by Vera Dika
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Visionary Film (2002)
The American Avant-Garde, 1943-2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Experimental Cinema, The Film Reader (2002)
Dir. Gwendolyn Audrey Foster and Wheeler Winston Dixon
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde (2001)
by Bill Nichols
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > Maya Deren
Dreams of Chaos, Visions of Order (2000)
Understanding the American Avant-Garde Cinema
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Lovers of Cinema (1998)
The First American Film Avant-Garde 1919-1945
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
The Exploding Eye (1997)
A Re-Visionary History of 1960s American Experimental Cinema
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Rhetoric and representation in nonfiction film (1997)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Avant-garde film (1993)
motion studies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
• Interviews (3 books)(0 book)
The Sublimity of Document (2019)
Cinema as Diorama
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Jonas Mekas (2018)
Conversations with Filmmakers
by Jonas Mekas
Publisher: Spector Books
Subject: Director > Jonas Mekas
Adventures of Perception (2009)
Cinema as Exploration
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
• Stories (6 books)(3 books)
Exploding Cinema 1991 - 1999 (2021)
culture and democracy
Publisher: Independant
Subject: Genre > Experimental
At Peter's / Chez Peter (2017)
Publisher: Paris expérimental
(in French and English)
Subject: Director > Peter Kubelka
Shoot Shoot Shoot (2016)
The First Decade of the London Film-Makers' Co-Operative 1966-76
Dir. Mark Webber
Publisher: LUX
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Radical Light (2010)
Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000
Dir. Steve Anker, Kathy Geritz and Steve Seid
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
• Screenplays (1 book)(1 book)
Uiq (The Unmaking-of) (2018)
Un livre de vision / A Book of Visions
by Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson
Publisher: Post-Éditions
(in French and English)
Subject: One Film > Un amour d'UIQ
• Photos (1 book)(1 book)
Cauleen Smith (2024)
Breaking Cinema: Experimental Film 2010-2023
Publisher: Mousse Publishing
Subject: Genre > Experimental
• Didactic (1 book)(0 book)
Experimental Filmmaking and the Motion Picture Camera (2019)
An Introductory Guide for Artists and Filmmakers
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Technique > Cinematography
• Filmmakers' writings (4 books)(2 books)
Stan Brakhage in Rolling Stock, 1980-1990 (2018)
by Jerry White
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Subject: Director > Stan Brakhage
Lettres de nulle part (2004)
Letters from Nowhere
by Jonas Mekas
Publisher: Paris expérimental
(in French and English)
Subject: Director > Jonas Mekas
Déclarations de Paris (2001)
Statements from Paris
by Jonas Mekas
Publisher: Paris expérimental
(in French and English)
Subject: Director > Jonas Mekas
The Walden Book (1997)
by Pip Chodorov and Christian Lebrat
Publisher: Paris expérimental
Subject: Director > Pip Chodorov, Christian Lebrat
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