Experimental Film

“Metaphors on Vision is a collection of writings on the film and, in particular, on the film as Stan Brakhage sees and makes it. Yet more significantly it is a testament of what makes mythopoeic art. Mythopoeia is the often attempted and seldom achieved result of making a myth new or making a new myth.” [...]

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Cherry Kino: Wondermental Super8 and 16mm Film Techniques (2010)

A DIY filmmaking booklet with information on how to make analog films, DIY techniques, cameraless filmmaking, processing film by hand, what film stocks to use, where to find them, and so on. Inspired by WORM Filmwerkplaats’s To Boldly Go and Helen Hill’s Recipes for Disaster. Self-published in Leeds, UK, November 2010 24 pages via pleintekst.nl [...]

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To Boldly Go: A Starters Guide to Hand Made and DIY Films (2008)

“This is a booklet for both those eager to begin in hand made film and those who already started but are keen to know more. It signifies a hope and commitment to making sure these techniques, tricks and handy tips remain openly available to all who might need them. Let’s not keep any secrets! These [...]

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Katarína Rusnáková (ed.): V toku pohyblivých obrazov: Antológia textov o elektronickom a digitálnom umení v kontexte vizuálnej kultúry (2005) [Slovak]

Antológia textov o elektronickom a digitálnom umení v kontexte vizuálnej kultúry prináša aktuálne pohľady na mnohotvárnu problematiku súčasného elektronického a digitálneho umenia. Autori textov: Nora Barry, Tilman Baumgärtel, Ursula Frohne, Sabine Himmelsbach, Verena Kuni, Peter Lunenfeld, Lev Manovich, Simon Penny, Peter Weibel. Publisher Academy of Fine Arts, Bratislava ISBN 8088675979, 9788088675976 193 pages publisher google [...]

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Paul Sharits, Józef Robakowski: Attention: Light!, catalogue (2004)

In the early 1980s, American artist Paul Sharits sent Jozef Robakowski plans for a film entitled Attention: Light with the suggestion that Robakowski produce it in Poland. The film was to be a visual rendition of the Mazurka in F minor, Op. 68#4 by Frederick Chopin. Unfortunately, due to unmitigated circumstances including the imposition of [...]

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Lapis

Classic abstract cinema / visual music made using early analogue computer equipment. James Whitney. 1966.

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Rubber’s Lover

Japanese cyberpunk horror by Shozin Fukui. 1996.

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Loch Ness Magick

A magical ritual on the grounds of Aleister Crowley’s Boleskine House in Loch Ness. Short film by Brian Butler. 2008.

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Impressions de la Haute Mongolie

Impressions de la haute Mongolie is surrealist film directed by Salvador Dalí and José Montes-Baquer, starring Salvador Dalí himself. It is a false documentary about a hunt through Mongolia for a giant hallucinogenic mushroom. The film is dedicated …

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The Divine Horsemen

The Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods Of Haiti is a documentary film about Haitian vodou shot by filmmaker Maya Deren between 1947 and 1954 and completed by Deren’s third husband Teiji Ito in 1985.

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The Blood of a Poet

Directed by Jean Cocteau. 1930.

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Din of Celestial Birds

A trip through the evolution of consciousness. Directed by E. Elias Merhige. 2006.

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The Witches’ Cradle

Unfinished film by Maya Deren and Marcel Duchamp. 1943.

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