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Australian experimental film : an alternative history / Fiona Hooton Saarbru¨cken, Germany: VDM, 2009.
Call No: 771(94) HOOAuthor: Hooton, Fiona Place: Saarbru¨cken, GermanyPublisher: VDMPubDate: 2009PhysDes: 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. - BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographical references.ISBN: 9783639115932Contents: 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 -- BibliographyID2: 343
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Culture and counter-culture : a seminar on youth and the arts / Australian Unesco Seminar, Ursula College, Australian National University, 15-19 May, 1972 Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1974.
Call No: 408 CULCorpAuthor: Australian Unesco Seminar (1972 : Australian National University)Source: ATPlace: CanberraPublisher: Australian Government Publishing ServicePubDate: 1974PhysDes: 172 pages ; 30 cmSubject: CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; CULTURE AND TV. AUSTRALIA ; CRITICISM. AUSTRALIA ; FLAUS, JOHN ; WEIR, PETER ; THOMS, ALBIE Donation: Henry Mayer CollectionContents: Introduction / Miss Angela Moore -- Part 1: Papers of the seminar -- Opening Lecture / Mr John English -- Youth and Theatre / Mr George Whaley -- Counter-Culture as a life style / Mr Michael Rudd, Mr Doug Anders, Mr Graeme Dunstan -- The chances of survival of music's traditional forms / Mr D. Ahern, Dr C Hill -- Is patronage a blight on experimental art? / Mr Rodney Hall, Mr John Hopkins, Mr Ron Watkins, Dr G. Pont, Mr J. Phillips -- The Visual and plastic arts - points of view / Mr Patrick McCaughey -- Public Lecture / Mr John English -- Which Culture Counter What? / Mr A. Bear -- The Electric Humanities - Film and Television / Mr J. Flaus, Mr K. Guyatt, Mr Peter Weir, Mr Albie Thoms -- Writing / Mr Frank Moorhouse, Dr Norman Talbot -- Part II: Proceedings -- Workshop Reports -- Visual Arts / Mr Edward Snell -- T.V. / Mr Peter Weir -- Drama / Mr Mike Morris -- Music / Mr David Aherd -- Part III - Appendixes -- Appendix I - Seminar Program -- Appendix II - Seminar Planning Committee -- Appendix III - List of participants
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[Palm beach : stills file]
Call No: TITLE STILLS AUSTRALIASource: ATPhysDes: 16 photographs : b&w ; 18 x 13 cm - 29 x 23 cm + 1 postcard : col. ; 11 x 15 cmSubject: BROWN, BRYAN ; YOUNG, NAT ; BROWN, KENNETH ; THOMS, ALBIE ; PALM BEACH (AT, Albie Thoms, 1979) Summary: Sixteen black and white photographs and one colour postcard relating to the film 'Palm Beach'Notes: Contains duplicates. One photograph is a bit damaged with blue ink on it.
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Polemics for a new cinema / [by] Albie Thoms Glebe, N.S.W.: Wild & Woolley, 1978.
Call No: 771 THOAuthor: Thoms, Albie, 1941 Place: Glebe, N.S.W.Publisher: Wild & WoolleyPubDate: 1978PhysDes: 427p. ; 21cmSubject: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS ; AUSTRALIA. 1970's ; SURFING FILMS ; SYDNEY FILMMAKERS CO-OPERATIVE ; CANTRILL, ARTHUR & CORINNE ; KUCHAR, MIKE ; THOMS, ALBIE ; MEKAS, JONAS ; HALL, KEN G. ; NED KELLY (UK, Tony Richardson, 1970) ; WOODSTOCK (US, Michael Wadleigh, 1970) ; VIOLENCE IN THE CINEMA (AT, George Miller, 1972) ; ROLLING HOME (AT, David Lourie & Paul Witzig, 1975) Notes: Index; Includes bibliographical referencesISBN: 0909331588 : $11.66 Aust; 0909331596 (Paperback) : $6.95 AustLON: 1473377
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Polemics for a new cinema : writings to stimulate new approaches to film / Thoms, Albie Sydney: Wild and Woolley, 1978.
Call No: 771 THOAuthor: Thoms, Albie Place: SydneyPublisher: Wild and WoolleyPubDate: 1978PhysDes: 427 p. ; 21 cmSubject: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS ; AUSTRALIA. 1970's ; SURFING FILMS ; SYDNEY FILMMAKERS CO-OPERATIVE ; CANTRILL, ARTHUR & CORINNE ; KUCHAR, MIKE ; THOMS, ALBIE ; MEKAS, JONAS ; HALL, KEN G. ; NED KELLY (UK, Tony Richardson, 1970) ; WOODSTOCK (US, Michael Wadleigh, 1970) ; VIOLENCE IN THE CINEMA (AT, George Miller, 1972) ; ROLLING HOME (AT, David Lourie & Paul Witzig, 1975) Notes: Partial collection of previously published articles.
Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN: 0909331596
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Reviews in Lumiere (May, 1973) iss.23 p.28-33
PhysDes: ArticleSubject: LIBIDO (AT, John B. Murray & others, 1973) ; ANDROMEDA STRAIN, THE (US, Robert Wise, 1971) ; DIRTY LITTLE BILLY (US, Stan Dragoti, 1972) ; DUEL (US, Steven Spielberg, 1972) ; SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE (US, George Roy Hill, 1972) ; THOMS, ALBIE Summary: Reviews of LIBIDO, SUNSHINE CITY, THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN, EVERYTHING YOU'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX, DIRTY LITTLE BILLY, DUEL, SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE, and DORIAN GRAY.
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Synthetics : aspects of art and technology in Australia, 1956-1975 / Stephen Jones Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press,
Call No: 220"313" JONAuthor: Jones, Stephen Edition: 2011Place: Cambridge, MassachusettsPublisher: MIT PressPhysDes: xii,395 p. : illustrated ; 24 cmSeries: LeonardoSubject: TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS ; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; COMPUTER GRAPHICS. AUSTRALIA ; COMPUTERS AND THE CINEMA ; BURNS, TIM ; CANTRILL, ARTHUR & CORINNE ; GLASHEEN, MICHAEL ; PERRY, DAVID ; THOMS, ALBIE ; ULURU (AT, Michael Glasheen, 1978) Summary: New technologies continually arise, offering repeated opportunities to artists in search of the technologically novel. Stephen Jones calls this phenomenon the "rolling new," and in Synthetics he describes how artists in Australia used new technologies in their art, from the early days of digital computing in the 1950s to a landmark exhibition in 1975. Jones looks at not only the artists and the artworks they produced but also at the evolution of computing technologies and video displays as these new forms of media developed into tools that artists could use. He also examines the collaborations that sprang up between artists and the technologists who taught them how to use these new devices. The process, he finds, was reciprocal: the offerings of the engineer could inspire the artist as much as the needs of the artist could inspire the engineer.
Jones discusses the constraints imposed by the limitations of new technologies as they developed and shows that different types of output and display technologies made for the production of very different kinds of images. He explores the development of computer graphics, the use by artists of such new conceptual paradigms as post-object art, and the emergence of video art in the late 1960s and early 1970s. By 1975, the art and technology movement in Australia reached something of a watershed. The work itself became established as an art form just as funding dwindled and a popular and supportive left-wing government left office. And yet, Jones writes, the early electronic artists laid the foundation for today's burgeoning culture of new media art in Australia. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9780262014960Donation: Megan McMurchy
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THOMS, ALBIE
Call No: PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILE; PERSONALITY MICROFILM COLLECTIONPhysDes: Stills; Clippings; PublicitySubject: THOMS, ALBIE
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Ubu films : Sydney underground movies 1965-1970 / Peter Mudie Sydney: UNSW Press, 1997.
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