Zusatztext In this posthumous collection of essays, A.L. Rees has woven his outstanding knowledge of avant-garde film into a startlingly original, and non-linear, reconfiguration of its history. With great agility and lightness of touch, his perceptive but unexpected juxtapositions between theorists and artists, ideas and technologies, movements and moments throw new light on key issues of film theory and aesthetics. This radical rejection of chronology, however, has an underlying message. Rees traces ways in which experimental art and artists' film have challenged traditions of space and time that, rather than abrupt rupture, create a direct connection with the forms of digital art. In the brilliant last chapters of the book, he zeroes in on this dialectic. Informationen zum Autor A.L. Rees was Head of the Time Based Media course at Maidstone College of Art from 1988 1995 and then Research Tutor at the Royal College of Art until 2014. At various times he was the chair of the Arts Council's artists' film and video committee, and an adviser on experimental film to the British Film Institute, Tate, the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Channel 4. His book A History of Experimental Film and Video (BFI, 1999/2011) remains a key text, supplemented by the wide range of essays he wrote for journals and books on film and art. Simon Payne is Reader in Film and Media Studies at Anglia Ruskin University,UK. In addition, he is an experimental video maker whose work has shown in numerous venues including Tate Modern; the Serpentine Gallery; The Hermitage, St Petersburg and the London, Edinburgh and Rotterdam Film Festivals. He has written widely on experimental film and video, and recently co-edited Kurt Kren: Structural Film with Nicky Hamlyn and A.L. Rees. Klappentext Drawing on film theory, literary modernism, psychology and art history, Fields of View elucidates an expanded network of connections between avant-garde film and wider culture. In this bold and original work, A.L. Rees identifies three key terms - 'field', 'frame' and 'interval' and charts their use by filmmakers and theorists such as Dziga Vertov, Sergei Eisenstein, Bruce Baillie, Maya Deren, Malcolm Le Grice and Werner Nekes, from the 1920s through to the present day. A seminal voice in film culture, Rees left the incomplete manuscript for this book on his death, and Simon Payne has subsequently carefully prepared the book for publication. Fields of View is an important work that establishes a unique perspective on experimental film.In this bold and original work, A.L. Rees elucidates an expanded network of connections between avant-garde film and wider culture. Zusammenfassung Drawing on film theory! literary modernism! psychology and art history! Fields of View elucidates an expanded network of connections between avant-garde film and wider culture. In this bold and original work! A.L. Rees identifies three key terms - 'field'! 'frame' and 'interval' and charts their use by filmmakers and theorists such as Dziga Vertov! Sergei Eisenstein! Bruce Baillie! Maya Deren! Malcolm Le Grice and Werner Nekes! from the 1920s through to the present day. A seminal voice in film culture! Rees left the incomplete manuscript for this book on his death! and Simon Payne has subsequently carefully prepared the book for publication. Fields of View is an important work that establishes a unique perspective on experimental film. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword: Harvesting FieldsAcknowledgementsFieldsFilm MachineFilm as Optic and IdeaExpanding CinemaRoom FilmsFilm ObjectsProjection SpaceTime FramesRealismsAsymptoteDigital DialecticFields in Braque and GehrClassic Film Theory and the SpectatorField and GestaltMonet, Lumière and Cinematic TimeDisplacement, SculptureBodies in MotionIntervalsMethods of MontageFramesFrames and WindowsConstructivism and C...

Vorwort
In this bold and original work, A.L. Rees elucidates an expanded network of connections between avant-garde film and wider culture.

Autorentext
A.L. Rees was Head of the Time Based Media course at Maidstone College of Art from 1988 1995 and then Research Tutor at the Royal College of Art until 2014. At various times he was the chair of the Arts Council's artists' film and video committee, and an adviser on experimental film to the British Film Institute, Tate, the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Channel 4. His book A History of Experimental Film and Video (BFI, 1999/2011) remains a key text, supplemented by the wide range of essays he wrote for journals and books on film and art. Simon Payne is Reader in Film and Media Studies at Anglia Ruskin University,UK. In addition, he is an experimental video maker whose work has shown in numerous venues including Tate Modern; the Serpentine Gallery; The Hermitage, St Petersburg and the London, Edinburgh and Rotterdam Film Festivals. He has written widely on experimental film and video, and recently co-edited Kurt Kren: Structural Film with Nicky Hamlyn and A.L. Rees.

Klappentext

Drawing on film theory, literary modernism, psychology and art history, Fields of View elucidates an expanded network of connections between avant-garde film and wider culture. In this bold and original work, A.L. Rees identifies three key terms - 'field', 'frame' and 'interval' and charts their use by filmmakers and theorists such as Dziga Vertov, Sergei Eisenstein, Bruce Baillie, Maya Deren, Malcolm Le Grice and Werner Nekes, from the 1920s through to the present day. A seminal voice in film culture, Rees left the incomplete manuscript for this book on his death, and Simon Payne has subsequently carefully prepared the book for publication. Fields of View is an important work that establishes a unique perspective on experimental film.

Inhalt
Foreword: Harvesting Fields Acknowledgements Fields Film Machine Film as Optic and Idea Expanding Cinema Room Films Film Objects Projection Space Time Frames Realisms Asymptote Digital Dialectic Fields in Braque and Gehr Classic Film Theory and the Spectator Field and Gestalt Monet, Lumière and Cinematic Time Displacement, Sculpture Bodies in Motion Intervals Methods of Montage Frames Frames and Windows Constructivism and Computers Geometry of Intervals Notes