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.
With essays by Renate Buschmann, Gabriel Flückiger, Michael Hiltbrunner, Ute Holl, Simon Koenig, Thilo Koenig, Vrääth Ohner, Thomas Schärer, Fred Truniger.
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: Experimental Film in Switzerland | François Bovier, Adeena Mey, Fred Truniger, Anton Rey, Thomas Schärer (eds.)
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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.
Wirkungsmaschine Schauspieler | Anton Rey, Hajo Kurzenberger, Stephan Müller (Hg.) [E-Book PDF]
Vom Menschendarsteller zum multifunktionalen Spielemacher
Was macht Schauspielen heute aus? Vertreter aus Theaterpraxis, Wissenschaft und Ausbildung diskutieren über Darstellung im Spannungsfeld zwischen Schauspieler-Alltag und Alltags-Performer, über Arbeitsverhältnisse zwischen Schauspielern und Regisseuren, Ausbildungsprofile verschiedener Schauspielschulen, theaterwissenschaftliche Analysen von Spielweisen und Probenprozessen und Visionen vom Schauspieler in der Theatergeschichte und Gegenwart.
Acoustics of the Vowel. Preliminaries | Dieter Maurer [E-Book PDF]
It seems as if the fundamentals of how we produce vowels and how they are acoustically represented have been clarified: we phonate and articulate. Using our vocal chords, we produce a vocal sound or noise which is then shaped into a specific vowel sound by the resonances of the pharyngeal, oral, and nasal cavities, that is, the vocal tract. Accordingly, the acoustic description of vowels relates to vowelspecific patterns of relative energy maxima in the sound spectra, known as patterns of formants. The intellectual and empirical reasoning presented in this treatise, however, gives rise to scepticism with respect to this understanding of the sound of the vowel. The reflections and materials presented provide reason to argue that, up to now, a comprehensible theory of the acoustics of the voice and of voiced speech sounds is lacking, and consequently, no satisfying understanding of vowels as an achievement and particular formal accomplishment of the voice exists. Thus, the question of the acoustics of the vowel – and with it the question of the acoustics of the voice itself – proves to be an unresolved fundamental problem.
Akustik des Vokals. Präliminarien | Dieter Maurer [E-Book PDF]
Die Frage, wie wir Vokale erzeugen und wie sie sich in der Folge akustisch «abbilden», scheint im Wesentlichen geklärt: Wir phonieren und artikulieren. Wir produzieren mit den Stimmbändern einen allgemeinen Klang oder ein Geräusch und formen diese über die Resonanzen von Rachen, Mund und Nase zu einem einzelnen, spezifischen Laut. Dementsprechend werden Vokale akustisch über charakteristische Energiemaxima im Spektrum, über sogenannte «Formanten» beschrieben. Intellektuelle und empirische Gründe, wie sie in dieser Schrift zusammengestellt und erläutert werden, geben aber Anlass zu einer ausgeprägten Skepsis gegenüber einer solchen Auffassung. Die vorliegenden Darstellungen und Erläuterungen lassen folgern, dass eine nachvollziehbare Theorie der Akustik von Stimme und stimmhafter Sprache, und mit ihr ein entsprechendes Verstehen von Vokalen als Leistung und Formgebung der Stimme, bis heute aussteht. Die Frage nach der Akustik der Vokale erweist sich mithin als ein ungelöstes Grundlagenproblem.