...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...

...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...

...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 are...

... 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...

... 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...

... experimental filmmaking to evoke “critical arousal,” these alt-porn films revise, to varying extents, the representational politics of conventional adult video. Jennifer Moorman is visiting assistant professor of women's and gender studies at Loyola Marymount University. She received her doctorate in...

... 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...

..., 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...

... 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...

...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...

... 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 in...

...Sara Saljoughi This article examines the problem of collectivity in Forugh Farrokhzad's The House Is Black ( Khaneh siah ast , Iran, 1962), an experimental film set in a leper colony in northwestern Iran. Focusing on the film's experiments with form, the article explores how the development of new...

... 2016 feminist affect theory Canadian documentary video collectives media activism archives experimental video Figure 1. Jennifer Gilmour, left, and Marusya Bociurkiw, right, of Emma Productions, 1985 Big Affect: The Ephemeral Archive of Second-Wave­ Feminist Video...

...Lynne Sachs Camera Obscura 2007 Lynne Sachs makes experimental and documentary films, videos, installations, and Web projects that expose the limits of verbal language by complementing it with complex emotional and visual imagery. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches alternative media in...

...Jackie Hatfield Camera Obscura 2006 Jackie Hatfield is an artist and writer. She is coeditor of the Experimental Film and Video, An Anthology and works for the University of Dundee as a postdoctoral research fellow on “Rewind: Artists' Video in the Seventies and Eighties.” Tamara...

... show an image of women which is quite different from the one found in most narrative, commercial films until now, and we try to encourage spectators to see this. We also do our best to support independent and experimental films which have a very limited public in France for...

..., Wheeler Winston. Straight: Constructions of Heterosexuality in the Cinema. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2003. Dixon, Wheeler Winston, and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, eds. Experimental Cinema: The Film Reader. New York: Routledge, 2002. Doane, Mary Ann. The Emergence of...

... development of the American horror film in the early nineties. Harun Farocki is a Berlin-based filmmaker, who makes primarily experimental documentary and "essay" films. He has made over seventy films, including Images ofthe World and the Inscription ofWar, Videograms ofa...

... Naficy. American Film Institute, 1999. Post Identity 1.2. U of Detroit Mercy, 1998. Fatal Advice: How Safe-Sex Education Went Wrong by Cindy Patton. Duke UP, 1996. Robert Bresson edited by James Quandt. Indiana UP, 1999. Shohei Imamura edited by James Quandt. Indiana UP, 1999. Experimental...

...-minute film 'fragments' which may become part of his Magellan Cycle. D Shirley Clarke is teaching experimental video at UCLA and working on a comical-musical teleplay written with Susan Yankowitz. She is also designing a collaborative video communications network in Los Angeles: it will begin...