Process cinema : handmade film in the digital age

Exploring new and experimental practices with celluloid film in the digital age. Exploring new and experimental practices with celluloid film in the digital age. Cover Process Cinema Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Process Cinema: Handmade Film in the Digital Age Part One Histories of Handmade Film 1 Twenty-Four Signatures per Second: Direct Animation and Gestural Repetition 2 At the Limits of Cinema: Marie Menken’s Notebook 3 Artisanal Filmmaking in Australia Part Two Process as Practice 4 Self-Skilling and Home-Brewing: Some Reflections on Photochemical Film Culture 5 After: A Beginner’s Guide to Alchemy 6 How and Why: A Few Notes Concerning Production Techniques Employed in the Making of My Darkroom Films 7 Peter Tscherkassky Manufractures Two Minutes of (Im)Pure Cinema 8 Echoes of the Earth: Handmade Film Ecologies 9 Signs of the Three: Process and Composition in Works by Bruce Elder, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, and Blake Williams 10 Notes on the Materiality of Language in the Synthetic Sound Film Part Three Labs and Collectives 11 The Artist-Run Film Labs 12 Toward Artisanal Cinema: A Filmmakers’ Movement 13 Impalpable Boundary, Invisible Common: From Ciné-Clubs to Artist-Run Film Labs in Korea 14 A Collective Charge: Collectif double négativ/Double Negative Collective 15 A Short Overview of the Production and Distribution of Alternative Filmmaking in France 16 Letter to Frédérique Devaux concerning Isou’s 17 Experimental? It’s Not My “Type”! 18 A Dangerous Encounter: Lab Laba-Laba and the New Order’s Archive of Authoritarianism Part Four Pedagogies 19 The Materiality of Abstract Animation: The Discovery and Analysis of an Unreleased Film by Gordon Webber 20 “Sight Unseen”: The Ethos of Handmade Films 21 Your Film Farm Manifesto of Process Cinema 22 Chemistry Class: Jeffrey Paull, the Escarpment School, and the Legacy of Process Cinema at Sheridan College 23 The Sound We See: Growing a Global Slow Film Movement 24 A Travelogue in Two Parts: Hand-Processing in the Sahara and Finding no.w.here Part Five Counter Cinemas 25 Some Recipes for Disaster in the Films of Deirdre Logue and Helen Hill 26 The Immediate Sensuous: The Process Cinema of Jennifer Reeves 27 Tearing Up the Screen: Pia Arke’s Post-Colonial Processes 28 Projection as Performance: Recent Directions in Canadian Expanded Cinema Part Six Digital Interfaces 29 Practice, Interface, and Outcome: Two Interviews in Helsinki 30 Dismantling the Cinema: Restraining Presentness with Locative Media and Experimental Architecture 31 Writing the World: Medium Specificity and Avant-Garde Film in the Digital Age 32 Hardware Hacking, Software Modding, and File Manipulation: Process Cinema in the Digital Age Illustrations Contributors Index "Handmade films stretch back to cinema's beginnings, yet until now their rich history has been neglected. Process Cinema is the first book to trace the development of handmade and hand-processed film in its historical and contemporary contexts, and from a global perspective. Mapping the genealogy of handmade film, and uncovering confluences, influences, and interstices between various international movements, sites, and practices, Process Cinema positions the resurgence of handmade and process cinema as a counter-practice to the rise of digital filmmaking. This volume brings together a range of renowned academics and artists to examine contemporary artisanal films, DIY labs, and filmmakers typically left out of the avant-garde canon, addressing the convergence between the analog and the digital in contemporary process cinema. Contributors investigate the history of process cinema - unscripted, improvisatory manipulation of the physicality of film - with chapters on pioneering filmmakers such as Len Lye and Marie Menken, while others discuss an international array of collectives devoted to processing films in artist-run labs from South Korea to Finland, Australia to Austria, and Greenland to Morocco, along with historical and contemporary practices in Canada and the United States. Addressing the turn to a new, sustainable creative ecology that is central to handmade films in the twenty-first century, and one that defines today's reinvigorated film cultures, Process Cinema features some of the most beautiful handcrafted films and the most forward-thinking filmmakers within a global context."-- Provided by publisher