The comprehensive theoretical book, traces the evolution of Swiss experimental film addressing the relationships between contemporary art and underground movies, formal and amateur films, video, expanded cinema, and performances, national scene and international influences, with a special focus on how art schools and festivals were decisive for its development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By deciphering the fragility and ramifications of historical genealogies and challenging them by modern and scientific approaches, the book proposes an active archeology of Swiss experimental cinema, making visible the main characteristics of its specific history \u00ad\u2013 a history which developed in parallel to the international evolution of marginal cinema, albeit fragmentary, often delayed, and with powerful personal, institutional, and geographic idiosyncrasies. Taking those as methodological starting points for their reflection, the editors describe Swiss experimental film as \u201cminor cinema,\u201d quoting American scholar Branden W. Joseph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An attempt to offer an overview of the development of Swiss experimental film practices, it includes essays, among other key protagonists and spaces of diffusion, on Robert Beavers and Gregory Markopoulos, Peter Liechti, Hans Helmut Klaus Schoenherr, Clemens Klopfenstein, the role of cinema at the Kunstalle Bern during Harald Szeemann\u2019s curatorship, Annette Michelson, Tony Morgan, and Kurt Blum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Editors: Fran\u00e7ois Bovier, Adeena Mey, Fred Turniger, Anton Rey and Thomas Sch\u00e4rer<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With essays by Jean-Michel Baconnier, Fran\u00e7ois Bovier, Nicolas Brulhart, Renate Buschmann, Gabriel Fl\u00fcckiger, Marcy Goldberg, Michael Hiltbrunner, Ute Holl, Simon Koenig, Thilo Koenig, Genevi\u00e8ve Loup, Adeena Mey, Vr\u00e4\u00e4th Ohner, Siri Peyer, Thomas Sch\u00e4rer, Fred Truniger, and Ian Wooldridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The publication was preceded by the research project \u00abSwiss Film Experiments 1950-1988\u00bb, which was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the following exhibition \u00abFilm Implosion! Experiments in Swiss Cinema and Moving Image\u00bb at FriArt, Kunsthalle Fribourg and the Museum f\u00fcr Gestaltung in Z\u00fcrich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
JRP|Editions, Genf 2020
ISBN: 978-3-03764-550-5
Softcover, 150 x 210 mm
384 pages
CHF 25 \/ EUR 20 \/ \u00a3 16 \/ US 29.95<\/p>\n\n\n\n