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Call No: 771(94) TWO
Source: AT
Place: Melbourne
Publisher: National Gallery of Victoria
PubDate: 2004
PhysDes: 221 p. : col. ill. ; 17 x 17 cm
Subject: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; AVANT-GARDE FILMS. AUSTRALIA; UNDERGROUND FILMS. AUSTRALIA
Contents: 2004 : mapping contemporary Australian art and new media / Charles Green -- Surveying the boundaries of nation : from montage to network / Victoria Lynn -- Roundtable. Always turning art back into politics / Philip Brophy ... [et al.] -- Essays. Body: Extreme makeover : the 21st century body / Isobel Crombie ; Boredom : Bored? / Anonda Bell ; Collaboration : The ethics of collaboration / Nikos Papastergiadis ; Critic : The artist, the director, the manager and their critic / Blair French ; Decades : Against pluralism / Rex Butler ; Epic : Slashing and storming and sinning our war across adventure's most violent age / Clare Stewart ; Fashion : Telling tales / Katie Somerville ; Hybrid : Attack of the killer hybrids / Adrian Martin ; Indigenous : Spirit, resonance and innovation : indigenous art 2002-04 / Judith Ryan ; Net : net.bytes / Melinda Rackham ; Painting : Fast-forward painting / Kelly Gellatly ; Reality TV : Beyond the shadow of reality / Catharine Lumby

Author: Martin, Adrian
PhysDes: Article
Subject: DIGITAL CINEMA; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; CLAYDEN, JAMES
Summary: There has been no shortage of proposals in recent years about what might constitute the ‘digital aesthetics’ of the audio-visual media. Most often these proposals of new aesthetic models are conceived in terms of a sharp break with conventional narrative form — where convention is yoked to Hollywood on the one hand, and a certain tradition of European art cinema on the other. However, a largely unexplored connection is the very fertile link between digital work and the traditions of experimental cinema. The prolific film-maker-painter — dramaturg, James Clayden, active since the early 1970s, is an especially important figure in the crossover from film to digital in Australia. With small amounts of government subsidy and finance raised from other sources, he has made several experimental features and a myriad of shorts in recent years. These have received more attention and acclaim at overseas film festivals than in Australia, where the experimental exhibition scene has largely atrophied. Intriguingly, Clayden has gone back to celluloid works (on Super 8 or 16mm) and re-fashioned them in a radical way for several digital projects; he has also been preparing a more conventional narrative art-cinema project. This article will use these rich intersections of forms, gauges and modes in Clayden's recent career as a way of approaching a new theorization of digital aesthetics in Australian cinema. -- Abstract
Notes: Part of a special issue on digital cinema in Australia and New Zealand

Call No: 771(94) HOO
Author: Hooton, Fiona
Place: Saarbru¨cken, Germany
Publisher: VDM
PubDate: 2009
PhysDes: 174 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Subject: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; THOMS, ALBIE; BERESFORD, BRUCE; UBU FILM GROUP; NEWSFRONT (AT, Phillip Noyce, 1978); AWARDS. AUSTRALIAN FILM INSTITUTE; GOD KNOWS WHY, BUT IT WORKS (AT, Phil Noyce, 1976); CRYSTAL VOYAGER (AT, David Elfick & Albert Falzon, 1973); MORA, PHILIPPE; NOYCE, PHIL
Summary: In Australia art cinema no decade can rival the importace of the 1960s, yet little is still known of it's significance. This book attempempts to fill a current void of research about early Australian Experimental film. This is a significant gap given it was a national movemenent with many international connections. - BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9783639115932
Contents: Introductoin -- 1. Undergound histories -- 2. It droppeth as the gentle rain -- 3. U bu and the counterculture -- 4. The impact of experimental film on mainstream Australian cinema -- Conclusion -- Timeline - Viewing menu -- List of illistrations -- Bibliography
ID2: 343

Call No: held no.1-93/100 Mar. 1971-Dec.1999/Jan.2000
Author: Cantrill, Arthur; Cantrill, Corinne
Source: AT
Place: [Melbourne, Australia
Publisher: A. Cantrill
PubDate: 1971
PhysDes: v. : ill. ; 21-33 cm
Subject: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; ART CINEMA; ART CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; AVANT-GARDE FILMS. AUSTRALIA
Summary: ‘Cantrills Filmnotes’ was a magazine edited and published by legendary filmmakers Arthur and Corinne Cantrill from 1971 to 2000. The publication reviewed independent films and videos with a focus on experimental and personal film, video art, digital media and performance and installation art. Early issues of the publication present like a homemade ’zine’, with hand drawn titles and wonderful tactile details such as a 16 mm filmstrip taped to one of the pages. This publication is an important document of the independent Australian film community. Articles included contributions from artists discussing their work, interviews and critic. International and local film and video artists included names such as Len Lye, Harry Smith, Nam June Paik, Red Grooms, Stan Brakhage, Mike Hoolboom, Barbara Sternberg, Phil Hoffman, Al Razutis, Ellie Epp, Aggy Read, Garry Shead, Lynsey Martin, Jim Wilson, Jas Duke, Paul Winkler and of course Corinne and Arthur Cantrill Cantrills Filmnotes ceased publication with the issue December 1999-January 2000 (#93-100) due to lack of funding and financial support. -- AFIRC
Notes: Title from cover; 2 copies of No. 3 and no. 6
ISSN: 0158-4154
Frequency: Two issues yearly (irregular) 1975-<1980; Formerly: Four issues yearly, 1973-1974; Formerly: Six issues yearly, 1971-1972
Indexed In: FIAF
LON: 81643772; 2126310
ID2: 233

Author: Bishop, Rod; Mackie, Fiona
PhysDes: Article
Subject: CONSUMERISM AND THE CINEMA; DRUGS IN FILMS; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; DELING, BERT; DALMAS (AT, Bert Deling, 1973)
Summary: Review of experimental film DALMAS, and interview with its director Bert Deling and crew/cast member Robin Laurie

Call No: 462-02(94) DON
Copy Management: Copy 1; Copy 2
Author: Blonski, Annette; Creed, Barbara; Freiberg, Freda
Place: Richmond, Vic.
Publisher: Greenhouse
PubDate: 1987
PhysDes: 400 p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 28 cm
Subject: WOMEN AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN FILM WORKERS. AUSTRALIA; INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS. AUSTRALIA; INDEPENDENT FILMS. AUSTRALIA; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; ADDIS, ERIKA; ANSARA, MARTHA; ASH, EVE; CANTRILL, ARTHUR & CORINNE; FISKE, PAT; GIBSON, SARAH; GRACE, HELEN; LAMBERT, SUSAN; HARTMAN, RIVKA; HOASS, SOLRUN; KEARNEY, BRIANN; KELLY, GABRIELLE; ROLLE, DI; SCHWARZ, MONIQUE; THORNLEY, JENI; TILSON, ALISON; ARMSTRONG, GILLIAN; CAMPION, JANE; BEHIND CLOSED DOORS (AT, Sarah Gilbert & Susan Lambert, 1980); IN THIS LIFE'S BODY (AT, Corinne Cantrill, 1987); FOR LOVE OR MONEY (AT, Megan McMurchy & Jeni Thornley, 1983); MY LIFE WITHOUT STEVE (AT, Gillian Leahy, 1986); WE AIM TO PLEASE (AT, Robin Laurie & Margot Nash, 1977); SERIOUS UNDERTAKINGS (AT, Helen Grace, 1983); SONG OF CEYLON, A (AT, Laleen S.B. Jayamanne, 1984)
Summary: Don't shoot darling! affirms the significant role played by women filmmakers. Various contributors examine the institutions and organisation which provide support for women's films; the achievements and limitations of affirmative action training schemes for women; and the reception and coverage of women's independent films by the press. A number of particular films - among them, For love or mone, My life without Steve, Serious Undertakings and Behind closed doors - are analused from feminist critical perspectives, and the book includes a collection of statements by individual women filmmakers about their own experiences and attitudes. -- Back cover
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes
ISBN: 0864360584 : price unknown
LON: anb86436058; 5042996
Contents: Preface -- Beginnings -- Big brother - women and the state -- Feminist initiatives -- Training and affirmative action -- Personal statements -- The press -- Textual analysis

Call No: FESTIVAL CATALOGUE SHELVES; held 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2000-2003, 2005-2007; incomplete
CorpAuthor: Modern Image Makers Association
Source: AT
Place: Melbourne
Publisher: MIMA
PubDate: 1988-
Subject: FESTIVALS. MELBOURNE. EXPERIMENTA MEDIA ARTS; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA
ISBN: 0731647130
LON: 7904255; 9333312; 6235972

Call No: 771(94) MOD
Author: Modern Image Makers Association
Source: AT
Place: Melbourne
Publisher: MIMA
PubDate: 1988
PhysDes: 48 p. ; 30 cm
Subject: ART AND THE CINEMA; ART CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; EXHIBITION. AUSTRALIA; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; MONDO FILMS; MARTIN, ADRIAN; CANTRILL, ARTHUR & CORINNE; GIBSON, ROSS; ALEXANDER, GEORGE
Summary: Program for the Experimenta exhibition 1988. Includes short essays from various performers and presenters as well as the list of exhibits and exhibiting artists
Notes: State Film Theatre, City Gallery, 200 Gertrude Street Gallery, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria
ISBN: 731641730
Contents: Experimenta Program -- Theatrical -- Performance -- Installation -- Seminars; Project: last written words -- Hello comrade: Adrian Martin -- Last and first words: Fiona Mackie -- Some thoughts on the practice of film as art in Australia: Arthur Cantrill -- I used to speak French: Ross Gibson -- Against the grain: Kris Hemensley -- Mondo video: George Alexander --; Exhibiting artists; Experimenta at a glance

Call No: 204(94)EXP
Subject: FESTIVALS. TIBERINA; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND TELEVISION FUND

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA

Call No: 175(94)FIL FIL
Source: AT
Place: Melbourne
Publisher: Victorian College of the Arts
PubDate: [1982]
PhysDes: [11] p. : ill. ; 30 cm
Subject: ART CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; TRAVELLING EXHIBITION; VICTORIAN COLLEGE OF THE ARTS, SCHOOL OF FILM AND TELEVISION
Summary: Programme listing of the different films and filmmakers featured within the 'Film as Art' exhibition (which toured around Australia). Filmmakers listed include: Sue Ford, John Dunkley-Smith, Mike Parr, William Anderson, (aka. Tch Tch Tch) (Some lost advertisements), Ivan Durrant, Paul Winkler, Arthur and Corinne Cantill, Dirk de Bruyn, Jonas Balsaitas, George Gittoes

Call No: MISC F; held Issue Zero (2015)
Author: Looper, Carl; Tuohy, Richard
Source: AT
Place: [Brunswick East, Vic.]
Publisher: Artist Film Workshop
PhysDes: v. : illustrated ; 27 cm
Subject: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA

Call No: 771(94) INT
Author: Tofts, Darren
Source: AT
Place: Fishermens Bend, Vic.
Publisher: Craftsman House
PubDate: 2005
PhysDes: 145 p. ; 24 cm
Series: New Art
Subject: VIDEO ART; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN CENTRE FOR THE MOVING IMAGE [ACMI]; AESTHETICS; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENTS
Summary: Interzone is specifically interested in arts practices in which the computer is the predominant medium, integrating and synthesising a range of diverse media. Its chronology is narrow and deals with works produced from the early 1990s to the present. Media arts have come to be regarded as the signature form of this period, the art of its time. But the discussion of media art is not exclusively an issue to do with emerging technologies and how artists use them. It also concerns the ways in which artists explore the social and cultural implications of the very technologies they are working with. The intervention of the computer has given rise to complex new forms of knowledge, disturbing new ways of thinking abut what it means to be alive in the age of advanced technology. [Taken from back cover].
ISBN: 097573038X

Author: Martin, Adrian
PhysDes: Article
Subject: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; SOUND; MUSIC IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; AVANT-GARDE FILMS. AUSTRALIA
Summary: This article is an historical survey of Australian experimental cinema from the 1960s to the present day organized around the use of music and sound. Six aesthetic categories are distinguished: film as backdrop to live music; live music as backdrop to film; pre-recorded music as a ‘bed’ for images; images as a bed for pre-recorded music; disjunction between image and sound; image–sound fusion. The debate over the effects of musical rhythm in cinema is discussed.--ABSTRACT

Author: Taylor, Max
PhysDes: Article
Subject: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION
Summary: Article on experimental filmmaker Michel Pearce on his upcoming projects, many which are associated with the ABC.

Call No: 771(94) THO
Author: Thoms, Albie
Source: AT
Place: The Rocks, N.S.W.
Publisher: Media21 Publishing Pty Ltd
PubDate: 2012
PhysDes: 480 pages : some colour illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Subject: AUSTRALIA. 1960s; AUSTRALIA. 1970's; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; UBU FILM GROUP; UNDERGROUND FILMS. AUSTRALIA
Summary: This is the quintessential reference to the decade in which Australia shed the cultural cringe. The Sydney Push. The Iconic Yellow House. UBU Films. Oz Magazine. All were the launching pad for a new generation to challenge the conservative, stultified monoculture. Set in the context of the sexual revolution, Women's and Gay Liberation, Aboriginal Rights to Struggles, the anti-Vietnam war movement, hippies, drugs, psychedelic parties and Happenings, this book is Albie Thoms' definitive account of a major turning point in the cultural life of Australia. An amazing technicolour journey through 60s Sydney, My Generation is late filmmaker Albie Thoms' definitive account of a major turning point in the cultural life of Australia. The Sydney Push. The Iconic Yellow House. UBU Films. Oz Magazine. All were the launching pad for a new generation to challenge the conservative, stultified monoculture.
ISBN: 9780987449801

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; VIRTUAL REALITY. AUSTRALIA
Author: Cuthbertson, Debbie
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: AUSTRALIAN CENTRE FOR THE MOVING IMAGE [ACMI]; VIRTUAL REALITY. AUSTRALIA; FUNDING. AUSTRALIA; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA
Summary: Report on a new fund from the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) and philanthropists Simon and Catriona Mordant for new virtual reality works. Comments from CEO of ACMI Katrina Sedgwick and Simon Mordant about the why the new fund was created

PhysDes: Article
Subject: GOVERNMENT AID. AUSTRALIA; EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND TELEVISION FUND; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA
Summary: News. Includes list of 1971 grants made available, state-by-state, through the Experimental Film Fund. Announcement of the Unified Film Foundation ceasing all future grants.

Call No: 205 (94) AUS
Source: AT
PubDate: 1973
PhysDes: 290 pages ; 30 cm
Subject: TELEVISION. AUSTRALIA; INDUSTRY, TV. AUSTRALIA; PRODUCTION, TV. AUSTRALIA; PRODUCTION. AUSTRALIA; EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND TELEVISION FUND; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN FILM INSTITUTE; WOMEN AND TV. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN TV WORKERS. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING COMMISSION; CHILDREN, EFFECTS OF TV ON. AUSTRALIA; CHILDREN, PROGRAMMES FOR. AUSTRALIA; OFFICE PICNIC, THE (AT, Tom Cowan, 1973)
Summary: Reports and discussions made by the Media Women's Action Group, Australian Children's Television Action Committee, Australian Film Institute, and Reg Grundy Enterprises with members of the Australian Senate. These reports and discussions include descriptions of Australian TV (particularly daytime TV) in relation to the women who watch it, the effect of programs on children, the role the Australian Film Institute has in relation to the Experimental Film and Television Fund, it's effectiveness and relationship to the Australian Broadcasting Commission, and the ability of Australian's to sell their TV shows overseras
Notes: condition of distribution: this is an uncorrected proof of evidence taken before the Standing Committee. It is made available under the conditiion that it is recognised that this copy is an uncorrected proof.
Contents: Witnesses: Suzanne Baker and Eva Maria Cox / Media Women's Action Group -- Merle James and Ewart Wade / Australian Children's Television Action Committee -- Richard Brennan / Australian Film Institute -- Edwin Morrisby / Reg Grundy Enterprises

Author: Wade, Ewart
PhysDes: Article
Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN FILM INSTITUTE; EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND TELEVISION FUND; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; RADO, ERWIN
Summary: Interview with director of the Australian Film Institute, Erwin Rado, on the AFI becoming the new administer for the Expermintal Film Fund and the newly established distribution and exhibition elements of the AFI.

Call No: 61[77] DAN
Author: Danks, Adrian
PhysDes: 233 p. ; 29 cm.
Subject: AESTHETICS; PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA; AUTEUR THEORY; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; AVANT-GARDE FILMS. AUSTRALIA; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; Powell, Michael; PRESSBURGER, EMERIC; BELLE NOISEUSE, LA (FR, Jacques Rivette, 1991); BADLANDS (US, Terrence Malick, 1973); SONG OF AIR (AT, Merilee Bennett, 1987); CANTERBURY TALE, A (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1944); PEEPING TOM (UK, Michael Powell, 1960); JFK (US, Oliver Stone, 1991); CALENDAR (CN/GG/AR, Atom Egoyan, 1993); WINDOW WATER BABY MOVING (US, Stan Brakhage, 1959)
Summary: This thesis analyses the representation of 'home' photographic materials within a range of historically, aesthetically and generically diverse cinematic works. [Taken from thesis summary.]
Notes: PhD thesis

Call No: 771.3(94) MUD
Author: Mudie, Peter
Place: Sydney
Publisher: UNSW Press
PubDate: 1997
PhysDes: 287 p. : ill. some col. ; 28 cm
Subject: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; UNDERGROUND FILMS. AUSTRALIA; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; THOMS, ALBIE; PERRY, CLARK; READ, AGGY; CLARK, JOHN
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography and filmography: p. 274-279
ISBN: 0868405124 : $44.95
LON: abn97156178; 13202483

Author: Lindley, Howard
PhysDes: Article
Subject: UNDERGROUND FILMS. AUSTRALIA; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; BEGINNINGS (AT, Rod Bishop, Gorden Glen, Scott Murray & Andrew Pezue, 1970); SYDNEY FILMMAKERS CO-OPERATIVE; MELBOURNE FILMMAKERS CO-OPERATIVE
Summary: A monthly Lumiere suppliment that looks at experimental, undergournd, and radical local film makers and films emerging from Melbourne and Sydney.

Author: Lindley, Howard
PhysDes: Article
Subject: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; UNDERGROUND FILMS. AUSTRALIA; MELBOURNE FILMMAKERS CO-OPERATIVE; SYDNEY FILMMAKERS CO-OPERATIVE
Summary: News on Australia's experimental and underground film scenes.

Author: Howard, Lindley (ed.)
PhysDes: Article
Subject: COWAN, TOM; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; UNDERGROUND FILMS. AUSTRALIA
Summary: Collection of news featuring underground and experimental news. Includes an interview with Tom Cowan and Alan Doble.

Call No: F(027)(94)MOD
CorpAuthor: Modern Image Makers Association Incorporated
Place: Melbourne
Publisher: Modern Image Makers Association
PubDate: [1986?]
PhysDes: 8 p. ; 30 cm.
Subject: MODERN IMAGE MAKERS ASSOCIATION; VIDEO ART; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA
Contents: Film text, film, texture: a checklist of artists and sixteen millimetre film - Dirk De Bruyn -- Super 8: Definition and difference - Rolando Caputo -- In the video playground - Stephen Goddard -- Yearbook Vol. I: program notes -- Yearbook Vol. II: program notes -- Yearbook Vol. III: program notes -- Modern Image Makers Association.