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.
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.
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.
Untersuchungen zum Theater mit nicht professionellen Darstellenden der deutschsprachigen Schweiz
Forschungsbericht zum SNF/DORE-Forschungsprojekt
Die Studie untersucht das aktuelle Freilichttheaterschaffen im Hinblick auf künstlerische Entwicklungen bezüglich Spiel, Regie und Autorschaft, regionalwirtschaftliche Effekte sowie kulturpolitische Aspekte. Sie zeigt auf, dass Freilichttheater eine höchst leistungsfähige und flexible Form des Theaters ist, wenn der Autorschaft der nicht professionellen Darstellenden und jener des Spielorts gebührend Rechnung getragen werden.
335 Seiten (PDF), ZHdK Institute for the Performing Arts and Film, 2009
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