Overview
- opens up new theoretical perspectives on materialist film
- discusses the potential for new kinds of tactile knowledge, privileging process as a form of physical and embodied encounter
- uses specific examples of analogue and hybrid experimental works to unravel new aesthetic and philosophical perspectives
Part of the book series: Experimental Film and Artists’ Moving Image (EFAMI)
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About this book
This book assesses the contemporary status of photochemical 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 photochemical 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.
Authors and Affiliations
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Experimental Film and Photochemical Practices
Authors: Kim Knowles
Series Title: Experimental Film and Artists’ Moving Image
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44309-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-44308-5Published: 30 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-44311-5Published: 01 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-44309-2Published: 29 September 2020
Series ISSN: 2523-7527
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7535
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 255
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 34 illustrations in colour
Topics: Experimental Film, Film History, Arts