Process cinema : handmade film in the digital age /

Handmade films stretch back to cinema's beginnings, yet until now their rich history has been neglected. Process Cinema is the first book to trace the development of handmade and hand-processed film in its historical and contemporary contexts, and from a global perspective. Mapping the genealog...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: MacKenzie, Scott, 1967- (Editor), Marchessault, Janine (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2019]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Process cinema: handmade film in the digital age / Scott MacKenzie and Janine Marchessault
  • Part one. Histories of handmade film. Twenty-four signatures per second: direct animation and gestural repetition / Alla Gadassik
  • At the limits of cinema: Marie Menken's Notebook / Angela Joosse
  • Artisanal filmmaking in Australia / Arthur Cantrill
  • Part two. Process as practice. Self-skilling and home-brewing: some reflections on photochemical film culture / Kim Knowles
  • After: a beginner's guide to alchemy / Carl Brown
  • How and why: a few notes concerning production techniques employed in the making of my darkroom films / Peter Tscherkassky
  • Peter Tscherkassky manufractures two minutes of (im)pure cinema / Tom Gunning
  • Echoes of the Earth: handmade film ecologies / Gregory Zinman
  • Signs of the three: process and composition in works by Bruce Elder, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, and Blake Williams / Bart Testa
  • Notes on the materiality of language in the synthetic sound film / Kelly Egan
  • Part three. Labs and collectives. The artist-run film labs / Pip Chodorov
  • Toward artisanal cinema: a filmmakers' movement / Chris Gehman
  • Impalpable boundary, invisible common: from ciné-clubs to artist-run film labs in Korea / Junho Oh
  • A collective charge: Collectif double négativ/Double Negative Collective / Mike Rollo
  • A short overview of the production and distribution of alternative filmmaking in France / Frédérique Devaux
  • Letter to Frédérique Devaux concerning Isou's Traité de bave et d'éternité / Stan Brakhage
  • Experimental? It's not my "type"! / Frédérique Devaux
  • A dangerous encounter: Lab Laba-Laba and the New Order's Archive of Authoritarianism / Veronika Kusumaryati
  • Part four. Pedagogies. The materiality of abstract animation: the discovery and analysis of an unreleased film by Gordon Webber / Marco de Blois and Guillaume Lafleur
  • "Sight unseen": the ethos of handmade films / Hart Cohen
  • Your film farm manifesto of process cinema / Philip Hoffman
  • Chemistry class: Jeffrey Paull, the Escarpment School, and the legacy of process cinema at Sheridan College / Brett Kashmere
  • The sound we see: growing a global slow film movement / Lisa Marr and Paolo Davanzo
  • A travelogue in two parts: hand-processing in the Sahara and finding no.w.here / Terra Long
  • Part five. Counter cinemas. Some recipes for disaster in the films of Deirdre Logue and Helen Hill / Janine Marchessault
  • The immediate sensuous: the process cinema of Jennifer Reeves / Brenda Longfellow
  • Tearing up the screen: Pia Arke's post-colonial processes / Scott MacKenzie and Anna Westerstahl Stenport
  • Projection as performance: recent directions in Canadian expanded cinema / Dan Browne
  • Part six. Digital interfaces. Practice, interface, and outcome: two interviews in Helsinki / Sami van Ingen
  • Dismantling the cinema: restraining presentness with locative media and experimental architecture / Solomon Nagler
  • Writing the world: medium specificity and avant-garde film in the digital age / Tess Takahashi
  • Hardware hacking, software modding, and file manipulation: process cinema in the digital age / Clint Enns.