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The Legacy of Representation: International Experimental Media Congress; Toronto, 1989 and 2010

Tess Takahashi
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 137–147.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1727482
Published: 01 December 2012
...Tess Takahashi This article examines the legacy of issues of representation in the International Experimental Media Congress held in Toronto in April of 2010, twenty years after the contentious 1989 International Experimental Film Congress. On the surface, the two events embraced the same stated...
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Zhang Nuanxin and Social Commitment in 1980s Chinese Women’s Experimental Cinema

Lingzhen Wang
Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (3): 1–29.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-7772363
Published: 01 December 2019
... the institutionalized practice of class and gender equality—and new mainstream discourses began to endorse a universal modernity, disregarding sociopolitical consequences of the market. Zhang Nuanxin (张暖忻, 1941–95) emerged as a pioneer in both the theory and practice of early post-Mao new experimental cinema, but she...
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Continuous Weave: Feminist Experimental Filmmaking Genealogies

Sarah Keller
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 89–103.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9349385
Published: 01 December 2021
... tendencies of feminist experimental art and continues the legacy of all three women's art. Cooperative, collaborative, and productively fragmented, it honors the creative lineage of which it is a part. Copyright © 2021 by Camera Obscura Published by Duke University Press 2021 Barbara Hammer Deborah...
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Rescuing the Fragmentary Evidence of Women's Experimental Film

Robin Blaetz
Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (3 (63)): 153–156.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2006-016
Published: 01 December 2006
...Robin Blaetz Camera Obscura 2006 Robin Blaetz is an associate professor and chair of the Film Studies Program at Mount Holyoke College. She has written Visions of the Maid: Joan of Arc in American Film and Culture (2001) and is completing an anthology titled Women's Experimental...
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Philosophy and Painting in the Age of Their Experimentation: Contribution to an Idea of Postmodernity

Jean-François Lyotard, Maria Minich Brewer, Daniel Brewer
Camera Obscura (1984) 4 (3 (12)): 110–125.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-4-3_12-110
Published: 01 December 1984
...Jean-François Lyotard; Maria Minich Brewer; Daniel Brewer © 1984 by Camera Obscura 1984 Ler Bazgneuzez (Claude-Joseph Vernet , 1771) Philosophy and Painting in the Age of Their Experimentation: Contribution to an Idea of Postmodernity Jean-FranGotj- LYO~UT~ I imagine you...
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How EXPRMNTL Made the Small Coastal Town of Knokke the Scene for Radical Artistic New Waves and Political Sea Changes

Gerda Johanna Cammaer
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 169–179.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1727509
Published: 01 December 2012
... on the particularities of the town where EXPRMNTL took place, most notably its casino, exposing how and why Knokke was such fertile ground for the international film avant-garde to explode during EXPRMNTL 4, a festival that left its mark on all subsequent debates about experimental film. It showed, as no other event has...
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Barbara Hammer and Queer|Art: Granting for the Future

Vanessa Haroutunian
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 137–139.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9349455
Published: 01 December 2021
...Vanessa Haroutunian Abstract This essay describes how the Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking Grant came into fruition, created by the pioneering lesbian experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer and administered through the New York City nonprofit organization Queer|Art. In 2017, Hammer...
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Věra Chytilová's The Fruit of Paradise : A Tale of a Feminine Aesthetic, Dancing Color, and a Doll Who Kills the Devil

Iveta Jusová, Dan Reyes
Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 65–91.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2801518
Published: 01 December 2014
... aesthetic a cinematic exploration of écriture féminine . While studying the film's experimental cinematography, its carefully thought-out costume and set design, and its deliberately naive acting style, we find particularly noteworthy the filmmakers' employment of color. Fruit 's chromatic experimentation...
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Thoughts on Making Films with Barbara Hammer

Lynne Sachs
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 129–135.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9349441
Published: 01 December 2021
...Lynne Sachs Abstract This personal essay articulates filmmaker Lynne Sachs's experiences working with experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer. Sachs conveys the journey of her relationship with Hammer when they were both artists living in San Francisco in the late 1980s and 1990s and then later...
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The Documentaries of Barbara Hammer: Lesbian Creativity, Kinship, and Erotic Pleasure in the Historical Margins

Ronald Gregg
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 105–117.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9349399
Published: 01 December 2021
...Ronald Gregg Abstract Lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer turned from experimental filmmaking to feature-length documentaries in the early 1990s. These late documentaries illustrate her distinct perspective on queer history and affect, which was influenced by 1970s lesbian feminism and queer...
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The Wages of Affluence: The High-Rise Housewife in Japanese Sex Films

Anne McKnight
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 1–29.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1533430
Published: 01 May 2012
..., especially films that featured the popular trope of the housewife. Both low-budget “pink films” and more lushly produced, experimental roman poruno narrative films by Nikkatsu, Japan's oldest studio, put the housewife at the center of their stories and used the housewife's dwelling in modernist architecture...
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Performing Essentialism: Reassessing Barbara Hammer's Films of the 1970s

Greg Youmans
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 101–135.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1727473
Published: 01 December 2012
... together a wide range of genders and bodies on-screen, all the while showing profound love and respect for the 1970s feminist legacy. The article takes this new queer work as an invitation and a provocation to reassess Barbara Hammer's short experimental films of the 1970s and the larger cultural-feminist...
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Afterlife and Afterimage: Maya Deren in “Transfigured Time”

Lucy Fischer
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 1–31.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2352139
Published: 01 December 2013
...Lucy Fischer More than fifty years after the death of experimental filmmaker Maya Deren on 13 October 1961, this essay attempts to grapple with her complex legacy. While numerous scholars have already provided in-depth studies of Deren's films, writings, and biography, this article seeks to take...
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Queer Structure, Animated Form, and Really Rosie

Nick Salvato
Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (2 (98)): 139–159.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-6923142
Published: 01 September 2018
... into more discrete forms, because such animation creates sites at which formal experimentation and formal redundancy are vividly and co-constitutively apparent. The essay also, playfully, nominates the suite of at-once realist and fantastical effects engendered in animation as the condition of animation’s...
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Introduction: Late Hammer

Patricia White
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 84–87.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9349371
Published: 01 December 2021
... decade of the filmmaker's life. Diagnosed with terminal cancer, Hammer made work dealing with her body; gave footage she shot over the years to several filmmakers to finish as they wished; set up a grant for lesbian experimental filmmakers; and collaborated with curators, archivists, and her partner...
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American as Apple Pie

Erica Levin
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 145–149.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9052872
Published: 01 September 2021
... reenactment of the highly gendered role that the filmmaker Stan Brakhage cast Schneemann to play in his short experimental film Cat's Cradle (1959). It considers the way she understood home and homeland as two interlocking fronts in the ongoing battle over how gender is encoded and enacted. It concludes...
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Schneemann Sounding: Embodied Sonic Systems

Melissa Ragona
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 151–163.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9052886
Published: 01 September 2021
... how her exposure to emergent forms in experimental music informed important translations she made of complex sonic structures into expanded, layered, constantly evolving visual systems. The essay argues that Schneemann transformed the body into a soft recording system that broadcast sonic testimonies...
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Temporal Surfacing: Mosori Monika (1970) and Chick Strand's Cross-Cultural Explorations

Ekin Pinar
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 31–57.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10013604
Published: 01 December 2022
...Ekin Pinar Abstract This article considers how the temporality at work in Chick Strand's film Mosori Monika (US, 1970) breaks with the patriarchal, colonial, and capitalist narratives of genealogy, progress, and production. In Mosori Monika , an experimental ethnographic film that documents...
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Art on Film at Finch College: Reproductive Labor in the Enrichment Economy

Tim Ridlen
Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 81–101.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10278600
Published: 01 May 2023
...Tim Ridlen Abstract Finch College was a small women's liberal arts college located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan open from 1900 to 1975. The Contemporary Wing of the Finch College Museum of Art held a number of important exhibitions for conceptual art, experimental media, and film organized...
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Pop, Collaboration, Utopia: Bruce Conner's BREAKAWAY in 1960s Los Angeles

Johanna Gosse
Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (2 (89)): 1–27.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3078303
Published: 01 September 2015
... female performer and, in some cases, a pop music sound track; these films include COSMIC RAY (1961), VIVIAN (1964), EASTER MORNING RAGA (1966), and THE WHITE ROSE (1967). This essay examines a work by Conner that combines all of these elements, 1966's BREAKAWAY, an experimental dance film he made...
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