Minor Cinema: Experimental Film in Switzerland | François Bovier, Adeena Mey, Fred Truniger, Anton Rey, Thomas Schärer (eds.)
CHF 25.00
The comprehensive theoretical book, traces the evolution of Swiss experimental film addressing the relationships between contemporary art and underground movies, formal and amateur films, video, expanded cinema, and performances, national scene and international influences, with a special focus on how art schools and festivals were decisive for its development.
By deciphering the fragility and ramifications of historical genealogies and challenging them by modern and scientific approaches, the book proposes an active archeology of Swiss experimental cinema, making visible the main characteristics of its specific history – a history which developed in parallel to the international evolution of marginal cinema, albeit fragmentary, often delayed, and with powerful personal, institutional, and geographic idiosyncrasies. Taking those as methodological starting points for their reflection, the editors describe Swiss experimental film as “minor cinema,” quoting American scholar Branden W. Joseph.
An attempt to offer an overview of the development of Swiss experimental film practices, it includes essays, among other key protagonists and spaces of diffusion, on Robert Beavers and Gregory Markopoulos, Peter Liechti, Hans Helmut Klaus Schoenherr, Clemens Klopfenstein, the role of cinema at the Kunstalle Bern during Harald Szeemann’s curatorship, Annette Michelson, Tony Morgan, and Kurt Blum.
With essays by Jean-Michel Baconnier, François Bovier, Nicolas Brulhart, Renate Buschmann, Gabriel Flückiger, Marcy Goldberg, Michael Hiltbrunner, Ute Holl, Simon Koenig, Thilo Koenig, Geneviève Loup, Adeena Mey, Vrääth Ohner, Siri Peyer, Thomas Schärer, Fred Truniger, and Ian Wooldridge.
The publication was preceded by the research project «Swiss Film Experiments 1950-1988», which was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the following exhibition «Film Implosion! Experiments in Swiss Cinema and Moving Image» at FriArt, Kunsthalle Fribourg and the Museum für Gestaltung in Zürich.
Minor Cinema: Experimenteller Film in der Schweiz | François Bovier, Adeena Mey, Thomas Schärer, Fred Truniger (eds.) [E-Book PDF]
The comprehensive theoretical book, traces the evolution of Swiss experimental film addressing the relationships between contemporary art and underground movies, formal and amateur films, video, expanded cinema, and performances, national scene and international influences, with a special focus on how art schools and festivals were decisive for its development.
An attempt to offer an overview of the development of Swiss experimental film practices, it includes essays, among other key protagonists and spaces of diffusion, on Robert Beavers and Gregory Markopoulos, Peter Liechti, Hans Helmut Klaus Schoenherr, Clemens Klopfenstein, the role of cinema at the Kunstalle Bern during Harald Szeemann’s curatorship, Annette Michelson, Tony Morgan, and Kurt Blum.
This pdf is a shortened version of the book Minor Cinema: Experimental Film in Switzerland published by JRP|Editions in 2020. It contains the texts originally written in German and translated for the English edition.
We felt that research on improvisation in theater has to catch up and so we invited 10 advanced researchers of the field to present and discuss their topics. The result was an interesting mix of methods, approaches and academic conven tions. As expected the contributions were quite heterogeneous, since there is no such thing as a “theory of improvisational theater” or even a consensus of which discipline should investigate on it: Psychology? Theater studies? Linguistics? This book compiles most of the contributions of IMPRO TALKS and makes them accessible for an interested public and for further research.
Contributors: Edgar Landgraf, Gunter Lösel , Nicolas J. Zaunbrecher, Tony Frost and Ralph Yarrow, Duncan Marwick, Christian F. Freisleben-Teutscher
Freilichttheater – eine Tradition auf neuen Wegen | Liliana Heimberg, Yvonne Schmidt, Kathrin Siegfried (Hg.)
CHF 29.00
Jeden Sommer beteiligen sich Tausende von Menschen am Abenteuer «Freilichttheater» und setzen dafür ihre Freizeit ein. Was geschieht, wenn ein professionelles Theaterteam auf einen Ort und seine Bewohner trifft, um ein gemeinsames Theaterprojekt zu entwickeln? Das Freilichttheater setzt auf neue Verfahren, wie dieses Buch dokumentiert: Es teilt die Autorschaft der Inszenierung im künstlerischen Team, mit den Darstellenden, mit der Bevölkerung, mit dem Raum. Es greift lebendige Traditionen auf und bewahrt sie durch Wandel.
Lebendige Traditionen der Schweiz Band 3 / subTexte 11
264 Seiten, hier + jetzt, 2015
ISBN 978-3-0-3919364-6
Dieses Buch verleiht über vierzig Schweizer Filmschaffenden eine Stimme. Ihre Erfahrungen im Übergang vom «Schweizer» zum «neuen» Film in der Schweiz verdichten sich zu einer facettenreichen Gesamtschau der Kinolandschaft in der sich rasch wandelnden Gesellschaft der 60er- und 70er-Jahre. Zu Wort kommen nicht nur Regisseure, sondern auch Cutter, Beleuchter, Skript, Labormitarbeiter, Schauspielerinnen, Schauspieler und Produzenten. Und auch Verleiher, Filmkritiker und Kinobesitzer schildern ihren damaligen Alltag, ihre Sorgen, Hoffnungen und Ziele.
704 Seiten, DVD, Limmat Verlag, 2014
ISBN 978-3-85791-653-3