Cinematic Folds: the furling and unfurling of images
Toronto: Pleasure Dome, 2008
ISBN 9780968211540
Cinematic Folds: the furling and unfurling of images edited by Firoza Elavia includes essays addressing various examples of experimental media. The artworks mentioned in these essays employ innovative techniques that disrupt categorizations and genres. The authors discuss the poetic and political impact of these techniques to chart movements in experimental media arts.
Contents:
Acknowledgements;
Conceptualizing Cinematic Folds by Firoza Elavia;
Hymn by Jubal Brown;
Killer Artists: Taking Some Stabs at A Bucket of Blood and Color Me Blood Red by Louis Kaplan;
An Affective Aesthetics of Fear: From Cat People to J-horror by Ils Huygens;
Production Stills from Otto: or, Up With Dead People by Bruce LaBruce;
The Anxiogenic Cinema: A Consideration of Provocation and Distress in the Underground of the 60s by Carlos Kase;
This is Hardcore by Jack Sargeant;
Serial Killers by GB Jones;
Flaming Pixels, Cosmic Puke: Ryan Trecartin's A Family Finds Entertainment by Jon Davies;
Istvan Kantor, Machinery Execution by Shannon Bell;
Works from Still Life: Stilled Lives by Diana Thorneycroft;
Molecular Becomings: Of Grains and Cellular Mass by Firoza Elavia;
A Few Moments of Arousal in a Film by Martin Arnold by George Toles;
Grace Taking Form: Marey's Movement Machines by Erin Manning;
Collision and other art works by Carl Brown;
Electronic Color in Experimental Video Art by Carolyn lee Kane;
The Force of Pixels: Woody Vasulka, Time/Energy Objects, and the Becoming-Image by Troy Rhoades;
Untitled, from Kincora by Donigan Cumming;
Altered Body Maps and the Cinematic Sensorium by Anna Powell;
The Entranced Spectator: A Case of Dispossession or Three Films: Lynne Ramsay's Morvern Callar, Salla Tykkä's Lasso, and Maya Deren's Ritual in Transfigured Time by Maria Walsh;
The Film To Come by Steven Eastwood;
Fun TV by Willy Le Maitre and Eric Rosenveig;
Note from Margit by Margit Brünner;
Abrashing The Ungiven, And Givenness Abrashed (14 Lines) by Linda Marie Walker;
Contributors.
ITEM 2008.211 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
A Bucket of Blood – Roger Corman
Color Me Blood Red – Herschell Gordon Lewis
Cure – Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Pulse – Kiyoshi Kurosawa
The Grudge – Takashi Shimizu
The Grudge 2 – Takashi Shimizu
The Ring – Hideo Nakata
The Ring 2 – Hideo Nakata
Dark Water – Hideo Nakata
Cat People – Val Lewton
Otto; Or, Up With Dead People – Bruce LaBruce
Empire – Andy Warhol
Flaming Creatures – Jack Smith
Chelsea Girls – Andy Warhol
Portrait of Jason – Shirley Clarke
Rape – Yoko Ono and John Lennon
Sleep – Andy Warhol
City Piece – Yoko Ono
After Cease to Exist – Coum Transmissions
Untitled (2007) – GB Jones
Portrait of Ted Bundy – GB Jones
The Altar of the Cemetery of the Capuchin Monks – GB Jones
Portrait of Jeffrey Dahmer – GB Jones
The Altar of Jeffrey Dahmer – GB Jones
Lebensraum/Lifespace – Istvan Kantor
Body Worlds – Gunther von Hagen
Playroom-Remains of a Revolution – Istvan Kantor
Hospital Puppy – Diana Thorneycroft
Bumble – Diana Thorneycroft
Cut mouth lick – Diana Thorneycroft
Doll with flower – Diana Thorneycroft
Pigeon head doll – Diana Thorneycroft
Rabbit with ears – Diana Thorneycroft
POL – Granular Synthesis
Modell 5 – Granular Synthesis
Noise Gate – Granular Synthesis
Legion – Ross McMillan
Alone: Life Wastes Andy Hardy – Martin Arnold
Movements of a White Horse – Etienne-Jules Marey
Flight of a Gull – Etienne-Jules Marey
Anomie – Carl Brown
Materials at Two Speeds – Carl Brown
Reworked Pad #16 – Carl Brown
Nayami – Carl Brown
Studies – Steina and Woody Vasulka
Flux – Steina and Woody Vasulka
Binary Lives – Steina and Woody Vasulka
Test Tube – General Idea
Shut the Fuck Up – General Idea
(Absolutions) Pipilotti's Mistakes – Pipilotti Rist
Ever is Over All – Pipilotti Rist
C-Trend – Woody Vasulka
The Matter – Woody Vasulka
Explanation – Woody Vasulka
Artifacts – Woody Vasulka
Untitled, from Kincora (2008) – Donigan Cumming
Dog Star Man – Stan Brakhage
The Prelude – Stan Brakhage
Reflections in Black – Stan Brakhage
Projective Verse – Charles Olson
Ray Gun Virus – Paul Sharits
The Flicker – Beverly Conrad
Adrian Lyne – Jacob's Ladder
Fuses – Carolee Shneemann
Loving – Stan Brakhage
Cat's Cradle – Stan Brakhage
Movern Callar – Lynne Ramsay
Ratcatcher – Lynne Ramsay
Once Upon a Time in the West – Sergio Leone
Ritual in Transfigured Time – Maya Deren
Has the Film Already Started? – Maurice Lemaitre
The Longest Most Meaningless Movie in the World – Vincent Patouillard
Raiders: The Adaptation – Eric Zala and Chris Strompolos
In Real Time – Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller
The Actually Trilogy – Eastwood
Of Camera – Eastwood
The Film – Eastwood
The Film We Didn't Make – Eastwood
Fun TV – Willy Le Maitre and Eric Rosenzveig