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journal article		The British underground in Lumiere (January-February, 1972) iss.13 p.40-41 Author: Thoms, Albie PhysDes: Article Subject: BRITISH CINEMA; UNDERGROUND FILMS; DWOSKIN, STEPHEN; GIDAL, PETER; LARCHER, DAVID; LE GRICE, MALCOLM; LEGGETT, MIKE; SCHNEEMANN, CAROLEE; KEEN, JEFF Summary: A discussion of British Underground films and the decline of the industry as part of a series of articles on European Underground cinema. Includes work by filmmakers including Stephen Dwoskin, Malcolm Legrice, David Larcher, Peter Gidal, Mike Leggett and Ian Breakwell, Carolee Schneemann and Jeff Keen. Notes: First in this series of articles appears in Lumiere No. 11 p.37-39 More info
book		Film art phenomena / Nicky Hamlyn London: British Film Institute, 2003. Call No: 771 HAM Author: Hamlyn, Nicky CorpAuthor: BFI Source: UK Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: 2003 PhysDes: 224 p. : ill. ; 24cm Subject: ART CINEMA; AESTHETICS; VIDEO ART; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS; BRAKHAGE, STAN; LE GRICE, MALCOLM; SNOW, MICHAEL; SHERWIN, GUY; SMITH, JOHN; HALL, DAVID; HILL, TONY; LARCHER, DAVID; RABAN, WILLIAM Summary: "Hamlyn's major new study treats artists' film conceptually in order to explore key categories that connect different works and film-makers: from framing to digital media, installation to interactivity, point of view to sound. In so doing he considers the work of Stan Brakhage, Malcolm Le Grice and Michael Snow as well as younger artists such as Karen Mirza and Brad Butler, Jennifer Nighting ale, and Colin Crockatt, among many others. Film Art Phenomena is a crucial intervention in debates about the modes of film-making that diverge from and oppose the mainstream." -- Back cover Notes: Includes bibliography p. 188; includes index p. 195 ISBN: 0851709710. m Contents: I. MEDIA -- 1. Film and video -- 2. Digital media -- 3. Expanded technologies -- 4. Installation and its audience -- II. THE APPARATUS -- 5. The frame and its dissolution -- 6. Framing -- 7. Holding the camera -- 8. Point of view -- III. AESTHETICS -- 9. Space -- 10. Location -- 11. Interactivity -- 12. Sound, sync, performance -- 13. Film, art, ideology More info
book		A history of 1970s experimental film : Britain's decade of diversity / Patti Gaal-Holmes London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Call No: 771(410) GAA Author: Gaal-Holmes, Patti Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan PubDate: 2015 PhysDes: xviii, 231 pages ; 23 cm. Subject: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. UK; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS; BRAKHAGE, STAN; DWOSKIN, STEPHEN; GIDAL, PETER; JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (BE/FR, Chantal Akerman, 1975); LE GRICE, MALCOLM; MARXISM AND THE CINEMA; MCCALL, ANTHONY; VIDEO ART; WARHOL, ANDY; WOLLEN, PETER Summary: "This comprehensive historical account demonstrates the rich diversity in 1970s British experimental filmmaking. It acts as a form of reclamation by integrating films having received inadequate historical and critical recognition and placing these alongside films existing as accepted texts of the decade. This history challenges the problematic 'return to image' thesis, providing examples of written evidence and demonstrating how this has problematically perpetuated a flawed account of the decade. This is the first extensive overview of 1970s filmmaking, contextualizing films within broader aesthetic, theoretical and socio-political frameworks. The detailed textual and comparative analyses offer unique approaches to individual films, shedding light on technical, aesthetic and economic decisions informing filmmaking. As such, it provides a unique understanding of how experimental filmmaking grew from a small handful of films and filmmakers, at the start of the 1970s, to a veritable 'explosion' in filmmaking by the end of the decade"-- TROVE Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 9781349474912 Language: English Contents: Introduction -- 1. Questions of history -- 2. Institutional frameworks and organisational strategies -- 3.Experimental film and other visual arts -- 4. Visionary, mythopoeia and diary films -- 5. Experiments with structure and material -- 6. Women and film -- Conclusion: (Re)cognitions and (Re)considerations for This History -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index ID2: 343 More info
book		London's Arts Labs and the 60s avant-garde / David Curtis New Barnet, U.K: John Libbey Publishing, Author: Curtis, David Edition: 2020 Place: New Barnet, U.K Publisher: John Libbey Publishing PhysDes: vi, 170 pages : llustrated ; 25 cm Subject: AVANT-GARDE FILMS; BOWIE, DAVID; LE GRICE, MALCOLM; ONO, YOKO; WARHOL, ANDY; CANTRILL, ARTHUR & CORINNE Summary: This is the story of two short-lived artist-run spaces that are associated with some of the most innovative developments in the arts in Britain in the late 1960s. The Drury Lane Arts Lab (1967–69) was home to the first UK screenings of Andy Warhol's twin-screen 3 hour film Chelsea Girls, challenging exhibitions (John and Yoko / John Latham / Takis / Roelof Louw), poetry and music (first UK performance of Erik Satie's 24-hour Vexations) and fringe theatre (People Show / Freehold / Jane Arden's Vagina Rex and the Gas Oven / Will Spoor Mime Theatre). The Robert Street 'New Arts Lab' (1969–71) housed Britain's first video workshop TVX, the London Filmmakers Co-op's first workshop and a 5-days-a-week cinema devoted to showing new work by moving-image artists (David Larcher / Malcolm Le Grice / Sally Potter / Carolee Schneemann / Peter Gidal). It staged J G Ballard's infamous Crashed Cars exhibition and John & Dianne Lifton's pioneering computer-aided dance/mime performances. The impact of London's Labs led to an explosion of new artist-led spaces across Britain. This book relates the struggles of FACOP (Friends of the Arts Council Operative) to make the case for these new kinds of space and these new art-forms and the Arts Council's hesitant response – in the context of a popular press already hostile to youth culture, experimental art and the 'underground'. With a Foreword by Andrew Wilson, Curator Modern & Contemporary British Art and Archives, Tate Gallery. -- publisher's web site ISBN: 9780861967483 Contents: Foreword / Andrew Wilson -- Introduction -- Part one: Drury Lane Arts Lab Setting-up -- The Building -- The Programme Mix -- Theatre -- Poetry & Talks -- Music -- The Gallery -- The Soft Cinema -- Challenges -- Part two: The New Arts Lab at Robert St. (IRAT) -- Setting-Up -- The Building -- The Cybernetic Theatre -- The Gallery -- Music / Poetry / Talks -- The Print Workshop -- Video TVX -- Cinema and Film Workshop -- Closure – Appendices: Drury Lane and Robert Street Workers' After-lives -- Arts Labs & Related Phenomena / Addresses & News by Regions' (IT / BIT Oct '69) -- On the Southampton Arts Lab / Rob La Frenais & James Strangeways -- The Penis in Italy an Arts Lab Adventure / David Jeffrey -- My play Complexions at the Drury Lane Arts Lab / Jan Quackenbush -- Footnotes to Sketches From a Hunter's Album / Mo Throp & John King -- Index More info
journal article		Obsessive becomings in Metro (1997) iss.111 p.59-61 Author: Ball, Steven PhysDes: Article; Bio-filmography; Credits Subject: MEN IN FILMS; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. UK; REEVES, DANIEL; LE GRICE, MALCOLM; DWOSKIN, STEPHEN; OBSESSIVE BECOMING (UK, Daniel Reeves, 1995); CHRONOS FRAGMENTED (UK, Malcolm Le Grice, 1995); TRYING TO KISS THE MOON (UK, Stephen Dwoskin, 1994) Summary: Ball's essay explores the personal avant-garde video works of Daniel Reeves, Malcolm Le Grice and Stephen Dwoskin. Includes Reeves and Le Grice filmography. More info

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