Film art phenomena /
Publication details: London : BFI Pub., 2003.Description: viii, 200 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmISBN:- 0851709710
- 9780851709710
- 0851709729
- 9780851709727
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-194) and index.
pt. 1: Media -- Film and video -- Digital media -- Expanded technologies -- Installation and its audience -- pt. 2: The apparatus -- The frame and its dissolution -- Framing -- Holding the camera -- Point of view -- pt. 3: Aesthetics -- Space -- Location -- Interactivity -- Sound, sync, performance -- Film, art, ideology.
Alongside the commercial cinema of narrative and spectacle there has always been another practice--call it avant-garde, experimental, or artists' film. In this provocative book, Nicky Hamlyn, an acclaimed filmmaker in the alternative tradition, investigates the film art phenomenon. Taking cues from modern trends in other artforms, notably painting and sculpture, this type of filmmaking emphasizes the nature of its apparatus and medium in order to bring about a critical, inquisitive state of mind in the viewer. It deconstructs, anatomizes, and reimagines what film images are it builds new machines it recreates the setting of cinema or expands into new kinds of performance and exhibition. And it often has a political dimension--urging audiences to make a free and active response, not a passive, consumerist one. Hamlyn treats artists' film conceptually in order to explore key categories that connect different works and filmmakers: from framing to digital media, installation to interactivity, point of view, to sound. In so doing he considers the work of Stan Brakhage, Malcolm Le Grice, and Michael Snow, as well as younger artists such as Karen Mirza and Brad Butler, Jennifer Nightingale, and Colin Crockatt, among many others.