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Experimental Cinema - Simon Payne

Experimental Cinema

Structures, Systems and Strategies

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Buch | Hardcover
256 Seiten
2026
BFI Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-83902-647-8 (ISBN)
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An in depth analysis of aesthetic systems and structures developed by several British experimental film and videomakers from the late 1960s to the present day.
Experimental Cinema examines a range of structures, systems and strategies that film and video artists have developed from the late 1960s to the present. Over the decades, artists have responded to the ever-changing medium of cinema and its technological advances, as well as taking inspiration from painting, sculpture and music.

Simon Payne argues that the evolution of methodical strategies in experimental cinema goes back to the first avant-garde films made a century ago, in the 1920s. He shows how key figures internationally have formed part of this picture since then, but suggests that the most thorough formal exploration of cinema can be credited to a generation of artists that began making films in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s.

Payne analyses the work of numerous influential artists including Peter Gidal, David Hall, Malcolm Le Grice, Annabel Nicolson, Jayne Parker and Guy Sherwin. He discusses recent and lesser-known works as well as canonical films, videos and expanded cinema. He also pays close attention to younger artists including Jenny Baines, Neil Henderson, Jennifer Nightingale and Samantha Rebello.

Experimental Cinema traces a lineage that has defined some of the central preoccupations of artists’ film and video, which continue to test our expectations of cinema, television and the moving image.

Simon Payne is an experimental video maker whose work has shown in numerous venues including Tate Modern; the Serpentine Gallery; The Hermitage, St Petersburg and the London, Edinburgh and Rotterdam Film Festivals. He has written widely on experimental film and video, and recently co-edited the book Kurt Kren: Structural Film with Nicky Hamlyn and A.L. Rees. He is Reader in Film and Media Studies at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.

Acknowledgements
Introduction: ThreeSs
1. After Duchamp: WilliamRaban
2. By candlelight: Elemental cinema and flicker
3. Constructivism into film: Systems art and Guy Sherwin
4. Dark from light: Nick Collins’ films
5. Film music:Jayne Parker and John Cage

6. Games and challenges in artists’ films and videos

7. In search of a sensual philosophy: Malcolm Le Grice
8. Knitting patterns in Jennifer Nightingale’s films
9. Lengths and lines: Artists’ filmstrips
10. Matches: Responses to Annabel Nicolson’s expanded cinema
11. Not far at all: Peter Gidal
12. Object no.1: Montage in films by Samantha Rebello
13. Primary structures: DavidHall’s sculpture of the screen
14. Quartet and quadrants: Nicky Hamlyn
15. Signals: Teaching, learning and positive feedback
16. Tree Again: Chris Welsby
17. Vide0 void: David Larcher and Anthony McCall
18. Words: John Smith and Lis Rhodes
19. Zeros and ones: Abstract digital cinema
Conclusion: History and criticism

Erscheint lt. Verlag 14.5.2026
Zusatzinfo 69 bw illus
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-83902-647-2 / 1839026472
ISBN-13 978-1-83902-647-8 / 9781839026478
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