Experimental Film and Photochemical Practices

opens up new theoretical perspectives on materialist film
discusses the potential for new kinds of tactile knowledge, privileging process as a form of physical and embodied encounter

uses specific examples of analogue and hybrid experimental works to unravel new aesthetic and philosophical perspectives

opens up new theoretical perspectives on materialist film discusses the potential for new kinds of tactile knowledge, privileging process as a form of physical and embodied encounter uses specific examples of analogue and hybrid experimental works to unravel new aesthetic and philosophical perspectives

Auteur

Kim Knowles lectures in Alternative and Experimental Film at Aberystwyth University in Wales and curates the Black Box strand of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. She is the author of A Cinematic Artist: The Films of Man Ray (2009) and co-editor (with Marion Schmid) of Cinematic Intermediality: Theory and Practice (2021).

Contenu
Introduction.- Chapter 1: From Materialist Film to New Materialism.- Chapter 2: The Politics of Process.- Chapter 3: Expanded Cinema and Material Excess.- Chapter 4: Alternative Communities.- Chapter 5: The Dialectics of Old and New.- Conclusion.