A History of Experimental Film and Video

A.L. Rees

Bloomsbury Academic, Nov 15, 2011 - Performing Arts - 208 pages

This revised and updated edition covers the history of avant-garde film and video, ranging from Cezanne and dada, via Cocteau, Brakhage and Le Grice, to the new wave of British video artists in the 1990s. The author also reconstitutes the avante-garde film as an independent form of art practice with its own internal logic and aesthetic discourse.

About the author

A.L. Rees was Head of the Time-Based Media course at Maidstone College of Art from 1988 – 1995 and then Research Tutor at the Royal College of Art until 2014. At various times he was the chair of the Arts Council's artists' film and video committee, and an adviser on experimental film to the British Film Institute, Tate, the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Channel 4. His book A History of Experimental Film and Video (BFI, 1999/2011) remains a key text, supplemented by the wide range of essays he wrote for journals and books on film and art.

Bibliographic information

• Title: A History of Experimental Film and Video
• Author: A.L. Rees
• Edition: 2, illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2011
• ISBN: 1844574377, 9781844574377
• Length: 208 pages
• Subjects: Performing Arts / Film / General; Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism; Performing Arts / General