Kim Knowles
Experimental Film and Photochemical Practices
Author(s) Kim Knowles
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Cham
Format softcover book
Year 2021
Language(s) English
Pages 255
This book assesses the current state of photochemical filmmaking practice in a context of technological transition and obsolescence. It argues for the continuing relevance of material engagement in opening up new ways of seeing and perceiving the world. Challenging discourses of replacement and notions of fetishism and nostalgia, the book outlines the contours of a photochemical renaissance driven by collective passion, creative resistance, and artistic reinvention. Celluloid processes continue to play a key role in the evolution of experimental cinema aesthetics, and this book offers a personal journey through the work of several major contemporary film artists. It brings a fresh perspective to the communities and infrastructures supporting this dynamic field and mobilizes a wide range of theoretical perspectives drawn from media archaeology, new materialism, ecocriticism, and social ecology.
About the author
Kim Knowles teaches alternative and experimental cinema at Aberystwyth University in Wales and is curator of the Black Box section of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. She is the author of A Cinematic Artist: The Films of Man Ray (2009) and co-editor (with Marion Schmid) of Cinematic Intermediality: Theory and Practice (2021).
Number of illustrations: 12 black and white illustrations, 34 color illustrations
ISBN: 978-3-030-44311-5