Reflections on Contemporary British Experimental Film and Video Deniz Johns and Simon Payne March 2016 Contemporary British Experimental Film & Video The essays that we have collected together here offer a partial reflection on contemporary experimental film and video in the UK. Other writers would ...
Two ‘Machine’ Films: About Now MMX and Ex Library Nicky Hamlyn March 2016 Contemporary British Experimental Film & Video For a long time I have been interested in the paradoxical idea of machine vision – cameras that ‘see’. What this really means is non-anthropic forms o...
1970s Experimental Films: Then and Now Patti Gaal-Holmes March 2016 Contemporary British Experimental Film & Video This essay focuses on films by the British experimental filmmakers Guy Sherwin, Malcolm Le Grice, William Raban and John Smith, who began working in t...
Negative Light: Contemporary British Experimental Film and Video Simon Payne March 2016 Contemporary British Experimental Film & Video Cinema depends on negation. Framing is a form of exclusion; cutting is destructive as well as constructive; the projected image turns on presence and ...
Beyond the Cringe: Australia, Britain, and the Post-Colonial Film Avant-Garde Steven Ball March 2016 Contemporary British Experimental Film & Video For some decades there has been two-way traffic between the avant-garde film worlds of Australia and the UK. Australian artists arrive from a local sc...
