After the Avant-Garde : Contemporary German and Austrian Experimental Film

by Halle, Randall

• ISBN13: 9781571133656
• ISBN10: 1571133658
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-01
• Publisher: Camden House

Summary

New essays exploring the surging field of experimental film in today's Germany and Austria.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Contexts
The Future of "Art" and "Work" in the Age of Vision Machines: Harun Farocki	p. 31
The Embodied Film: Austrian Contributions to Experimental Cinema	p. 50
Interview with Filmmaker Birgit Hein	p. 69
Videorebels: Actions and Interventions of the German Video-Avant-Garde	p. 80
Media in the Interim: Independent Film in East Germany before and after 1989	p. 95
Blackbox GDR: DEFA's Untimely Avant-Garde	p. 109
In Your Face: Activism, Agit-Prop, and the Autonomy of Migration; The Case of Kanak Attak	p. 131
Rapidly Expanding Cinema: On Border Rescue and the Tendentiousness of Interventionist Art	p. 157
Case Studies
The Post-Pop Hauntings of Bjorn Melhus	p. 181
Schlingensief's Peep-Show: Post-Cinematic Spectacles and the Public Space of History	p. 204
From the Diary to the Webcam: Michael Brynntrup and the Medial Self	p. 225
QWERTY Cinema: Christoph Girardet/Matthias Muller's	p. 245
Kirsten Winter: From Avant-Garde to Second Modernity	p. 269
The Representation of Space in the Films of Heinz Emigholz	p. 289
Shocking the Audience, Shocking the Artist: Aesthetic Affinities to the Avant-Garde in Elke Krystufek's Work	p. 307
Works Cited	p. 325
Filmography	p. 343
Notes on the Contributors	p. 349
Index	p. 353
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