Table of Contents
Introduction: Experimental Cinema, Expanded Cinema, and Artist's Film
Chapter 1. Access: Agents, Archives
Archive - Whether to preserve or to show
Programming - Historiography in the making
Curating - Montage of contexts
Case study: Arsenal – Living Archive Project, Berlin
Expanded cinema - Expanded consciousness and event
Case study: Forum Expanded, Berlin Film Festival
Case study: International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen
Case study: Anthony McCall's Line Describing a Cone
Archival impulse - Archive fever
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 2. Affect: Performance, Audience
Black box and white cube
Case study: Anthology Film Archives, New York
Case study: LUX, Light Industry, Filmforum, LaborBerlin
Case study: Harun Farocki
Case study: Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam
Aesthetic experience
Music in film studies
Sensual pleasure
Case study: Sonic Acts Festival, Amsterdam
Case study: Psychedelia and the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR)
Programming affects
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 3. Reconstruction: Memory and Audio-Visual Heritage
Historiography - Films that make history
Case study: The Realm of Possibilities 4 - Access: Diamonds, Enter, Fin
Documents - Testifying the past
Found footage - Sampling and remixing images and music
Experimental music videos in museums
Case study Deutsches Filminstitut Filmmuseum, Frankfurt
Audio-visual heritage
Expanded heritage
Memory - Joyful archive of experiences
Experimental films and philosophy
Notes
Bibliography
Outlook
Notes
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Illustrations
General bibliography
Index