How to Enjoy Experimental Film

In a first for this show, two filmmakers join appear together in conversation. Partners Eve Heller and Peter Tscherkassky join the show to discuss their practices. Together they produced the book Film Unframed: A History of Austrian Avant-Garde Cinema, but their practices, whilst both deploying found footage are very distinct.

Eve Heller's films include found footage and photographed footage, produced exclusively on celluloid film and marked by particular engagement with the ideas of time, duration and memory.

Peter Tscherkassky has achieved worldwide renown for his films, which are frequently highly kinetic, visceral experiences, prompting the viewer to become aware of film as a fundamentally 3 dimensional medium. Also often working with found footage, Peter often deploys a method of contact printing (placing frames onto unexposed film and exposing the sections he wishes to reproduce by exposing them to a light source eg. a laser pointer).

Eve's films are frequently programmed worldwide, but you can find information about her work and film links on request from Sixpack film:

https://www.sixpackfilm.com/en/catalogue/filmmaker/4196/

Peter's films are available on 3 DVDs from Sixpack, as well as being included on Noel Lawrence's curated Experiments in Terror collections (produced by Craig Baldwin's Other Cinema company) and on a recent blu-ray produced by Found Footage Magazine. Many of his films are also available to download from Sixpack. Visit his site here:

http://www.tscherkassky.at

This episode was facilitated by filmmaker and fan of the show Dave Beaumler. Sincerest gratitude for his help.

Born in 1939, Barbara Meter is one of the most distinguished experimental filmmakers currently working in The Netherlands. Barbara's films are highly personal, but with universal appeal, addressing themes of love, friendship, loss and memory. In a career spanning from the late 60s to the present day, her work incorporates experimental, narrative and documentary works. In this episode, Barbara discusses her experimental and documentary films, from her first experimental film in 1970 From the Exterior to her most recent works Nachtlicht and I Know Where You Live, but Not Where You Went.

For a DVD featuring 11 of Barbara's films, visit Re:Voir's site:

https://re-voir.com/shop/en/babara-meter/821-barbara-meter-zuiver-film-9789059390270.html?search_query=Barbara+meter&results=60

For a DVD featuring her film Departure on Arrival, click here:

https://re-voir.com/shop/en/film-revoir-experiemental-film-dvd/762-studio-een-experimental-films-from-the-lowlands.html?search_query=lowlands&results=2

See a selection of Barbara's films on Vimeo:

https://vimeo.com/user11331228

Visit:

https://www.barbarameter.com

On Thursday, 10 new episodes will begin to appear in your podcast feeds.

In this clip package, you will hear the voices of the guests for the coming season (in order of appearance):

Barbara Meter

Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Ruth Novaczek

Helga Fanderl

Louise Bourque

Sapphire Goss

Vivian Ostrovsky

For our first ever "EXTRA" episode, we are joined once again by R. Bruce Elder, once described by Jonas Mekas as "the most important North American avant-garde filmmaker to emerge during the 1980s".

Bruce has supplied an additional essay discussing the Gerrard St. Village / Isaacs artists scene at the time that Michael Snow was a young man, offering some insights into artists and styles that may have contributed to Snow's own work.

Guy Sherwin makes a most welcome return to the show to continue our conversation about his prolific and varied output. In this episode, we discuss some of Guy's film performance works as well as several of his more lyrical and personal films. Through work that combines the personal with structural rigour, these films form a sensitive and highly original body of work. 

Filmmakers and artists discussed in this episode include
Malcolm LeGrice
Peter Gidal
David Larcher
Siobhan Davies

Coming next week wherever you get your podcasts:
10 new episodes of How to Enjoy Experimental Film
Featuring

Paul Bush

Guy Sherwin

Peter Rose, 

Inger Lise Hansen 

John Woodman

Ingo Petzke 

Marie Losier

French filmmaker, author, photographer and video maker Christian Lebrat joins How to Enjoy Experimental Film to discuss his entire output of works made on celluloid film. 

Christian produced these works between 1975-1985 and can see and read Christian’s work from Re:Voir, either using their smartphone app or on DVD. 

Often wrongly described as a 'structuralist' filmmaker, Lebrat's films fragment the film image and allow the audience the freedom to enjoy a unique experience of colour and movement. 

Christian is the founder of Paris Experimental, a publishing house dedicated to writing about experimental cinema, which now boasts a huge catalogue of books. Christian's book Radical Cinema as available in an English-Language edition, as are some others. 

Now working in still photography and video, Lebrat is as active as ever and we look forward to returning soon with another extended episode discussing his non-celluloid works!

Visit Christian's website http://www.christian-lebrat.net

Another great interview with the filmmaker is available here: https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2007/feature-articles/christian-lebrat/

Other filmmakers and artists discussed in this episode include:
Peter Kubelka
Jonas Mekas
Mark Rothko
Paul Sharits

Recorded live at Anglia Ruskin University, we are joined by filmmakers Neil Henderson and Andrew Vallance, as they discuss their "ways in" to experimental cinema as well as how closely linked Avant-Garde cinema is to more mainstream work. The speakers have each chosen a handful of films to discuss to illustrate their points as well as recommending others to the audience.

As this is a live recording, please expect some background noise.

This episode was made possible thanks to Simon Payne, who organised the event and who co-edited the book FILM TALKS: 15 CONVERSATIONS ON EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA. The book was the impetus for this episode and more live events are taking place throughout this year. The book can be purchased here: https://www.contactscreenings.co.uk/film-talks?fbclid=IwAR2wu99xcijw4Z2XCxn-wztLcgj5n_Z3SbtGo_nzFWz26i4XT2G3EV7WVvE

Artists discussed in this episode include:
Stan Brakhage
Bruce Conner
Malcolm LeGrice
Ray Agony
Todd Haynes
Richard Kern
Francis Thompson
Oskar Fischinger

Filmmaker Ding Xin, more commonly known as Sandy Ding produces extraordinary "psychoactive" films, which lull the viewer into states of altered consciousness to weave his very special kind of cinematic magic. In this in-depth interview, he discusses his filmmaking methods as well as his wide ranging interests in noise music and hypnosis. Sandy graduated from CalArts in 2007 and now teaches at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.

A DVD of his films can be purchased from the Paris-based distributor Re:Voir.
https://re-voir.com/shop/en/revoir/766-sandy-ding-psychoecho.html

and some films, including his first feature Night Awake can be viewed via Re:Voir's VOD service.
https://vod.re-voir.com

A selection of the films found on the DVD are also now available to view using the Re:Voir app, a subscription service boasting a huge selection of experimental films.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/online-re-voir/id1545131544

Filmmaker Emily Richardson joins us to discuss her highly atmospheric explorations of spaces and locations, many of which are in states of transition. Working both in film and digital video, Emily's works communicate a sense of immanence in often anxious atmospheres hinting at something just unseen at the periphery of our vision. These spaces are often "haunted" by soundscapes created by recording and manipulating sounds recorded on the locations. 

For more information, visit emilyrichardson.org.uk

Prolific filmmaker Nick Collins joins us to discuss his extensive body of film work. Shot in some of the filmmaker's most frequently visited locations, these are films that defy classification, despite the regular presence of landscapes and of carefully controlled structures. Simply put, we are in the presence of a filmmaker who explores the world around him and we are gently invited to explore with him. Extremely hard to label, Nick's cinema might even transcend the label of experimental film, with appeal far beyond what is sometimes described as a "niche" interest. 

Nick's films can be found here: https://vimeo.com/user13647711

Or on DVD published by Simon Payne, from the BFI Store. https://shop.bfi.org.uk/five-greek-films-dvd.html

Filmmakers discussed in this episode include:

Simon Payne

Yasujirō Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Anna Thew

Authors discussed include:

Gaston Bachelard

Bret Battey is a composer and visual musician, who creates both electro-acoustic music together with digital moving image art. The films are as complex visually as the music is to listen to, but together they create an altogether gripping and captivating experience. Musically, Bret is influenced as much by the sweep of late romantic composers such as Gustav Mahler as he is by the granularity of Iannis Xenakis, or the 'organised noise' of Edgard Varése and a host of other more recent electro-acoustic composers. Visually, he works often by digitally manipulating photographs (which he has often taken himself) to create colourful abstract visualisations to compliment the music, working often from programming individual pixels into alluringly complex larger pictures. Here, he discusses the processes involved in creating both music and image for his artworks, as well as the lineage of visual music into which he fits. 

Filmmakers discussed in this episode include:
Oskar Fischinger
Jordan Belson
Norman McLaren

The incredibly prolific Lynne Sachs returns to the show to discuss her films, particularly those found under the collective title "I Am Not A War Photographer". These titles include: States of Unbelonging, Which Way is East, Investigation of a Flame, The Las Happy Day and Your Day is My Night. We also discuss her films Film About a Father Who... as well as film as an act of civil disobedience. Many of Lynne's films can be found on her personal Vimeo page, as well as The Criterion Channel and, in the case of Film About A Father Who... on a new Blu-ray Disc. 

One of the leading figures in the field of experimental documentary, Lynne Sachs joins H2EEF to discuss her extraordinary body of work. In subjects ranging from the personal to the global political, Lynne's films are consistently sensitive and completely compelling. In this episode, she discusses the field of experimental documentary in general as well as her ways into the field. 

Filmmakers discussed in this episode include:

Jonas Mekas

MM Serra

Chantal Akerman

Robert Altman 

Jean-Luc Godard

Sharon Greytak

Larry Gottheim returns to the show to discuss some of his mid and late period works as well as the questions some of these films raise. It includes a discussion of how Larry found himself travelling to Haiti and becoming deeply involved with Voodoo as well as the deep self questioning that led to his latest films Chants and Dances for Hand and Knot/Not, both of which can be downloaded from the New York Filmmakers' Co-Operative Vimeo page. Some of the discussions travel to quite dark thematic areas and Larry will be discussing the problems, both intellectual and moral, of assembling the material for some of his films. 

One of the giants of the American Avant-Garde, Larry Gottheim joins H2EEF to discuss his life and work from his near legendary early films like Blues, Fog Line and Barn Rushes to his mid-period work (more recent work will be discussed in part 2). 

The serenity and beauty of Larry's early films can be enjoyed in a DVD produced by the New York Filmmakers' Co-Operative and Re:Voir and more recent works are available via the NYFMC's on-demand Vimeo page. 

Filmmakers discussed in this episode include:

Stan Brakhage
Tony Conrad
Ernie Gehr
Hollis Frampton
Ken Jacobs
Jonas Mekas
Nicholas Ray

Filmmaker Bill Morrison, whose work explores found and often decayed film footage, discusses his work and the nature of memory when contained in found footage. Broadly describable as documentary films, Bill's works have a hypnotic quality (his production company is even called Hypnotic Pictures!), which feature footage both from fiction and documentary films as well as home movies, scientific documentations and more. He recently collaborated with composer David Lang on the short film Let Me Come In for LA Opera as well as the feature film The Village Detective: A Song Cycle. His feature Decasia (in collaboration with composer Michael Gordon) was the first film of the 21st century to be entered into the Library Of Congress National Film Registry and his work consistently transcends the boundaries of the term "experimental", winning over audiences around the world. 

Painter who makes experimental films and experimental filmmaker who paints, Jeff Scher joins us to discuss his complete embrace of the term "experimental" across a rich and varied body of work including rotoscope animations and live action films. 

A student of Adolfas Mekas, Scher also teaches animation at NYU.

Jeff has collaborated with musicians as diverse as Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and Graham Nash as well as winning a Creative Arts Emmy for his work on the HBO special The Tattoo on Great Grandpa's Arm.

Many of Jeff's films are available on 2 DVDs from Re:Voir https://re-voir.com/shop/en/

And more are available on his personal Vimeo page: https://vimeo.com/user623597

Filmmakers discussed in this episode include:

Kenneth Anger

Bruce Baillie

Robert Breer

Max Fleischer

Marie Menken

Warren Sondbert

Francis Thompson

Andy Warhol

In a special extended episode of How to Enjoy Experimental Film, FOUR filmmakers gather to discuss one of their favourite filmmakers: Kurt Kren.

Nicky Hamlyn and Simon Payne have edited (with the late A.L. Rees) the first English-Language study of Kren's films, while Anna Thew, who has regularly programmed Kren's works for screenings, shares some stories of her own association with Kren and his films. Steven Woloshen, who lists Kren as one of his favourite filmmakers, starts the ball rolling with questions sent in specially for this episode all the way from Canada!

Filmmakers discussed in this episode include:
Peter Kubelka
Rose Lowder
Michael Snow
Paul Sharits
Oki Hiroyuki
Tony Conrad
Peter Tscherkassky

Writers discussed in this episode include:
Annette Michelson

We also discuss the music of the Second Viennese School in relation to films by Kren and Kubelka, focusing on:

Arnold Schoenberg
Alban Berg
Anton Webern

Anna Thew returns to the show for a lively discussion of her film works, including Cling Film, which has been known to generate considerable controversy, particularly when shown in the UK. Much of the work, however is very personal and has universal appeal, whether humorous, or tragic. We'll also discuss broader themes connected to the films including the AIDS crisis and the role of arts in education.

Filmmakers discussed in this episode include

Luis Buñuel

Jean Cocteau

Takahiko Iimura

Kenneth Anger

Carolee Schneemann

Yann Beauvais

Painter turned filmmaker Anna Thew discusses her first steps in filmmaking, leading to her feature film Hilda was a Goodlooker, which dramatises her mother's reminiscences and Behind Closed Doors, which deals with the trauma of losing her mother suddenly. Anna's cinema is deeply personal and yet possesses universal appeal, which will be approachable to audiences everywhere. Highly literate and indeed cine-literate, these are works that amply reward repeated viewings to explore their links to other works.

Find a selection of Anna's films on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/user4605273

Filmmakers discussed in this episode include:

Anne Rees Mogg

Rose Lowder

Peter Gidal

Malcolm LeGrice

David Hall

Chris Wellsby

Guy Sherwin

Marcel Duchamp

John Smith

Steve Farrer

Katerina Thomadaki

Maria Klonaris

Yann Beauvais

Cordelia Swan

John Maybury

Derek Jarman

Stan Brakhage

Kenneth Anger

Terence Davies

George Saxon

Writers discussed in this episode include:

Alexei Sayle

Walter Benjamin

Jean Genet

Contains brief strong language.

Legendary London-based artist-filmmaker John Smith joins H2EEF to discuss the beginnings of his career leading up to his breakthrough film The Girl Chewing Gum. Smith's films are renowned for their sense of humour, often used to illustrate a more serious underlying point. His works are shown all over the world including, at the time of recording, on Mubi. 

Popular with audiences everywhere, John's films are heavily informed by the notions of structural film, though they do not comfortably fit this, or any other description. With a deep focus on the power of language to suggest and mislead the viewer, "he has attracted admirers from way beyond the narrow confines of the Avant Garde."- Michael O'Pray, Art Monthly. 

"In John Smith’s films, the spectator is a producer as well as a consumer of meaning, bound in to the process but simultaneously distanced from the ‘naturalness’ of the film dream. This feature alone marks off John Smith’s films from the lure of cinema (to which his richly visual images nonetheless allude) and locates him firmly as an artist-filmmaker, who turns the codes of the film medium into a continual questioning of film truth." - A.L. Rees (Full essay here: http://johnsmithfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Associations.-A-L-Rees.pdf)

A number of John's recent films can be found on YouTube including Dad's Stick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx2hPQ2S08k&t=25s

Several more films and excerpts are available on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/johnsmithfilms/videos

And there is a DVD box set available from Lux Online, for which 50% of all sales go directly to the artist: https://luxmovingimage.square.site/product/john-smith-3-dvd-boxset/70?cp=true&sa=false&sbp=false&q=false&category_id=10

Filmmakers discussed in this episode include:

Peter Gidal

Guy Sherwin

Anne Rees Mogg

Malcolm LeGrice

Shifting focus from our earlier discussion, this episode focuses on Myron Ort's found footage films and film portraits. The epic 5 hour film cycle Eikono-Klastes is made up of found footage as well as hand painted film to create an enormous exploration of history and the moving image. It also includes re-contextualising of often very non-PC footage in order to create a new framework through which to view more difficult aspects of human history. 

The whole cycle is viewable on Youtube here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUEvOLwEmGMdHLIky44ttSnKhYTLvrl-Z

And you can view/purchase Myron's films and paintings on his website:
https://www.myronort.com

Filmmakers mentioned in this episode include:

Bruce Conner

Joseph Cornell

Ken Jacobs

Myron Ort, filmmaker, painter, musician, composer, repairer of antique cuban drums, restorer of vintage cars and expert on Latin-American music, talks to H2EEF about his unique film works. Spanning most forms of experimental practice and heavily influenced by the 60s psychedelic scene and Gestalt psychology, using hand painted film, multi-exposure films, film portrait, found footage and more, Myron's work is really deserving of a wider audience. In this first part of our discussion, we discuss the influences of the 60s Bay Area scene on the filmmaker's work and in particular his psychedelic films and the film that Stan Brakhage referred to as "the most worked on hand painted film I've ever seen!" OMMO.

You can find his wondrous array of work on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/myronort

On Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ZenOkeanos

and on his own website, where you can buy his collected films on DVD along with his paintings!: 

Filmmakers & artists discussed in this episode include

Barbara Hammer

Steven Zailian

Stan Brakhage

Jordan Belson

James Broughton

Bruce Baillie 

Ben Van Meter

Chick Strand

Sidney Peterson

Wassily Kandinsky

Len Lye

Man Ray

Jean Cocteau

Standish Lawder

Fernand Leger

Harold Gregor

Donna Germain

Peter Kubelka

Writers discussed include:

Aldous Huxley

Hoyt Sherman

Rudolf Arnheim

Wolfgang Köhler

Siegfried Kracauer

Filmmaker Toby Tatum joins H2EEF to discuss his extraordinary body of work. Tatum's work is a landscape of the mind, with pieces often set in gardens and grottos and featuring mind-bending visual effects, particularly involving composite imagery. Meditative, dreamlike and sometimes dark, these are unashamedly romantic film works that invite the viewer to participate in a completely unique view of the world. 

View Toby's films at: https://vimeo.com/tobytatum

Figures discussed in this episode include:

Alex Cox

Borja Calvo

Erik Davis

Simon Payne produces works almost exclusively with video, often without using a camera. In these video pieces, patterns work themselves out quite systematically, through colour and well-defined shapes to create unique cinematic experiences, which compel the viewer to reflect upon what they are seeing as well as their relation to it. Sometimes, these are frenetic and colourful, and other times, subdued and meditative, these pieces are shot through with a true spirit of experimentation, exploring what unexpected results might be produced by using shape, light and colour in various ways. In short, they are driven by a quest to see what happens!

Some of Simon's works can be found at his Vimeo page:

https://vimeo.com/simonpayne

And two DVDs of his works (Colour Field Videos & Systems Cinema) can be purchased in the Lux Store:

https://luxmovingimage.square.site/shop/dvds/10

Simon has also edited a number of books, most recently Fields of View, a posthumous collection of writings by A.L. Rees and the first English Language study of the work of Kurt Kren called Kurt Kren: Structural Films.

Filmmaker MM Serra discusses her extraordinary film work. Serra's work often incorporates documentary in a textural exploration of the film medium. Her films empower the viewer by allowing them to share in the empowerment of her film's subjects, often real people pushed to, or testing limits, but always viewed in the most humane and approachable manner. As Jonas Mekas put it: they are REAL films about REAL people "One of the most difficult things to do in cinema."

Filmmakers discussed in this episode include:

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Duchamp

Shirley Clarke

Josh Lewis

Carolee Schneemann

Abel Ferrara 

Todd Browning

Writers discussed in this episode include:

Baroness Elsa von Freitag Loringhoven

Filmmaker and Executive Director of the New York Filmmakers' Co-Op MM Serra talks to How to Enjoy Experimental Film about the work of the Co-Op and and her extraordinary work in keeping the amazing institution running. Founded by a group of artists in the 60s, the NYFMC is one of the most exciting and diverse non-profit collections of artists and experimental film on the planet. 

You can support them by visiting https://film-makerscoop.com

View some films in distribution here: https://vimeo.com/nacgfmc

Or purchase films on DVD co-produced by the Co-Op and Re:Voir at the Re:Voir website. Available titles so far: MM Serra ArtCore; Storm De Hirsch Mythology for the Soul; Larry Gottheim Fog Line and Taylor Mead Home Movies.

Filmmakers mentioned in this episode include:

Jonas Mekas

Shirley Clarke

Andy Warhol

Lindsay Anderson

Jack Smith

Edward Owens

Saul Levine

Abi Child

Carolee Schneemann

Stan Vanderbeek

Martha Colburn

Art Jones

Ken Jacobs

Marie Menken

Helen Levitt

Carmichael George

Stan Brakhage

Catherine Aldridge

Writers Discussed:

P. Adams Sitney 

Artist and filmmaker Joost Rekveld discusses his singular approach to creating image works. Making films using machinery and software, often of his own design, his abstract works are mesmerising and incorporate a scientific research alongside a lifelong interest in musical composition (Rekveld trained as a composer) to create work that is as rigorous in its attitude to content as it is to form. 

Read about his research project Dialogues with Machines at http://www.joostrekveld.net

Buy his films on DVD & Blu Ray at: https://re-voir.com/shop/en/joost-rekveld/1040-joost-rekveld-11-films.html

Filmmakers discussed in this episode include:

Bart Vegter

Karel Doing

Kurt Kren

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jürgen Rebele

Coming soon, 10 new episodes of How to Enjoy Experimental Film!

Featuring (in order of appearance in this trailer)

MM Serra

Joost Rekveld

Toby Tatum

Anna Thew

Myron Ort

John Smith

&

Simon Payne

Something a little different for our 10th epsode. Here, we have a very welcome return from Steven Woloshen along with Charlie Hewison, an expert on experimental film & PhD candidate currently in Paris. We discuss our own personal interpretations of some of Deren's puzzles as well as discussing the ways in which her influence has been felt ever since. 

Renowned filmmaker & artist Nicky Hamlyn, who has occasionally been linked to the label of "Structural Film" discusses the meanings and interpretations of this label in relation to his own work as well as to the works of other filmmakers.

Find some of Nicky's work here: https://vimeo.com/user56141429

3 DVDs of Nicky's work are also available from the BFI store.

A selection of filmmakers discussed in this episode:

Ernie Gehr

Michael Snow

Peter Gidal

Chris Welsby

William Raban

Maya Deren

Stan Brakhage

Ken Jacobs

Kurt Kren

Andy Warhol 

Paul Sharits

Hollis Frampton

Morgan Fisher

Simon Payne

John Smith

William English

A selection of writers Discussed: 

P. Adams Sitney, 

Peter Gidal, 

Hollis Frampton, 

Paul Sharits, 

Peter Wollen 

Nicky Recommends:

William Raban

Malcolm LeGrice

Amy Dixon

Guy Sherwin

Kurt Kren

Birgit & Wilhelm Hein

Hollis Frampton

Paul Sharits 

Michael Snow

Helga Fanderl

Steve Farrer

Jennifer Nightingale

Artist, filmmaker and anthropologist Diana Reichenbach makes films for conventional cinema settings as well as immersive films created in "Fulldome"- 360 degree projected films.

We discuss making experimental work for projection in a dome as well as filmmaking for virtual reality experiences as well as reproducing Fulldome films online and in non 3D spaces, combining analog and digital methods and the challenges of virtual experiences.

See some of Diana's work here: https://vimeo.com/dianareichenbach

and here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVudNJWwm2k

Filmmakers discussed in this episode:

Jan Svankmajer

Jordan Belson

Writers/ Critics discussed in this episode:

Scott McCloud

Diana Recommends:

Jordan Belson

Oskar Fischinger

Norman McLaren

Diana also recommends reading Marshall McLuhan's work. 

In this episode, we explore the idea of "visual music" with artist Jean Detheux, who has a unique approach to marrying audio and visual material in his films. 

Differing from the likes of Oskar Fischinger and Norman McLaren, Detheux rejects the idea of animation in a traditional sense, making the whole cinema screen into his canvas on which living paintings emerge before your eyes. 

Regularly collaborating with musicians for live performances, he aims to create a dialogue between music and image and a whole world into which the audience can enter.

Check out over 300 films and "sketches" as well as documentation of live performances on his Vimeo page at https://vimeo.com/jeandetheux

A very welcome return from artist Steven Woloshen, this time discussing his own filmmaking work and methods as well as the importance of encouraging others to attempt direct filmmaking for themselves.

See Steven's work on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/user6129068

Filmmakers discussed in this episode:

Stan Brakhage

Willard Maas

Bruce Conner

Norman McLaren

Standish Lawder

Hollis Frampton

Steven Woloshen recommends:

Bastien Dupriez

Gina Kamentsky

Julian Antonisz

José Antonio Sistiaga

Karl Lemieux

Lis Rhodes

PART 1 OF 2: Artist, writer and infectiously enthusiastic advocate of direct filmmaking Steven Woloshen discusses some of the history of this form of experimental filmmaking. You'll also hear why Steven wants everyone to have a go at working directly on film for themselves and express his passion for workshops to make his approach approachable and accessible to as many as possible. You won't want to miss part 2!

Filmmakers discussed in this episode:

Norman McLaren

Len Lye

Hans Richter

Steven Woloshen

Dziga Vertov

Steven Woloshen recommends:

Bastien Dupriez

Gina Kamentsky

Julian Antonisz

José Antonio Sistiaga

Karl Lemieux

Lis Rhodes

Fresh from his triumphant BBC series The Sound of TV, Writer, composer, presenter and pianist Neil Brand discusses some of the earliest of cinema and how experimental processes influenced almost all cinema pioneers.

For more information and to support his work, visit https://www.neilbrand.com

Filmmakers discussed in this episode

Lumière Brothers

Georges Méliès

Burt Acres

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Eisenstein

F.W. Murnau

Ladislas Starevich

Godfrey Reggio

Walter Ruttmann

D.W. Griffith

Hans Richter

Teinosuke Kinugasa

Robert Weine

Robert Siodmak

George Loane Tucker

René Clair

Abram Room

Fernand Léger

Dr. Vicky Smith discusses her work in film and her desire to communicate to the embodied viewer through multiple senses. 

Vicky's DVD can be purchased here: https://luxmovingimage.square.site/product/vicky-smith-grainy-realism/127?cp=true&sa=false&sbp=false&q=true

Find more of her work on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/user26846409

Filmmakers discussed in this episode:

Len Lye

Guy Sherwin

Man Ray

Normal McLaren

Critics/ Authors discussed:

P. Adams Sitney

Laura Marks

Vicky Recommends:

Annabel Nicolson