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cinema
comprehensive history
deteriorating film
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experimental film
film strips
handmade cinema
history of cinema
intersection of art and media
kinetic art
media
movies
moving image artists
painted film
painting and scratching
production
psychedelic light shows
shadow history
significance of the moving image
unconventional filmmaking practices
video synthesis
Product details
- ISBN 9780520302730
- Weight: 998g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 03 Jan 2020
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Making Images Move reveals a new history of cinema by uncovering its connections to other media and art forms. In this richly illustrated volume, Gregory Zinman explores how moving-image artists who worked in experimental film pushed the medium toward abstraction through a number of unconventional filmmaking practices, including painting and scratching directly on the film strip; deteriorating film with water, dirt, and bleach; and applying materials such as paper and glue. This book provides a comprehensive history of this tradition of “handmade cinema” from the early twentieth century to the present, opening up new conversations about the production, meaning, and significance of the moving image. From painted film to kinetic art, and from psychedelic light shows to video synthesis, Gregory Zinman recovers the range of forms, tools, and intentions that make up cinema’s shadow history, deepening awareness of the intersection of art and media in the twentieth century, and anticipating what is to come.
Gregory Zinman is Assistant Professor of Film and Media in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology and is a coeditor, with John Hanhardt and Edith Decker-Phillips, of We Are in Open Circuits: Writings by Nam June Paik.
