“Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective … an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of ‘Green?’” So begins Stan Brakhage’s (1933–2003) classic Metaphors on Vision. Originally published in 1963 by Jonas Mekas as a special issue of Film Culture, and designed by George Maciunas, it stands as the major theoretical statement by one of avant-garde cinema’s most influential figures, a treatise on mythopoeia and the nature of visual experience written in a style as idiosyncratic as his art. Long out of print, the volume is now available in this definitive edition from Anthology Film Archives and Light Industry, featuring Brakhage’s complete text in its distinctive original layout, as well as annotations by scholar P. Adams Sitney.

Metaphors on Vision

Brakhage, Stan

Anthology Film Archives

The Avant-Garde Film: A Reader of Theory and Criticism (Anthology Film Archives Series, No. 3)

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

The Legend of Maya Deren: A Documentary Biography and Collected Works : Volume I (Vol 1/Part 1 & 2)

Arts & Photography

Clark, VeVe A.

Performing Arts

Cultural Writing. Film Theory. Over 200 photographs. Bibliography. Contains Maya Deren's school letters, articles she wrote for socialist youth journals In the Thirties, as well as her correspondence, poetry, fiction and essays published here for the first time. Includes a history of her life between 1917 and 1942, documented by interviews with friends and family, photographs and other visual materials: letters and Interviews with Katherine Dunham, Alexander Hammid, Miriam Arsham, Hal Draper, Herbert Passin, Harry Roskolenko, Raymond Rosenthal and many of her other contemporaries.

The Legend of Maya Deren, Vol 1 Part 1: Signatures (1917-1942)

Hodson, Millicent

Neiman, Catrina

The Legend of Maya Deren: A Documentary Biography and Collected Works, Part 1 : Signatures (1917-42)

Cultural Writing. Film Studies. Bibliography. Filmography. Index. Documents Maya Deren's development as a filmmaker. Included are film scripts, shooting diagrams from Meshes of the Afternoon, Witch's Cradle, At Land, A Study in Choreography for Camera, and Ritual in Transfigured Time; articles on film-making; a facsimile of An Anagram of Ideas on Art Form and Film (her monograph on film theory); publicity materials; reviews; excerpts from lectures; stills from the films, photographs, and Interviews with friends and critics. "There has never been a biographical study quite like this one. Congratulations to everyone involved for a first rate piece of work"--David Ehrenstein. "It is a complex, gripping, deeply moving narrative"--Jerry Tallmer. "Essential for anyone interested In experimental film and women artists, THE LEGEND OF MAYA DEREN is also a must for those concerned with other arts, letters, and social Issues of our time. Libraries would do well to add several copies of this book

The Legend of Maya Deren: A Documentary Biography and Collected Works, Volume I, Part 2, Chambers: 001 (1942-47)

Legend of Maya Deren, a Documentary and Collected Works, Vol 1, Part 2: Chambers 1942-1947

VeVe A.

Hodson Catrina Clark

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Recycled Images: The Art and Politics of Found Footage Films

Wees, William C.

Photography & Video

Notes on John Marin, Frank Lloyd Wright

Davis, Jim.

<p>The Unseen Cinema catalog features 30 essays, 65 annotated photographs, articles and documents. Authors are scholars, critics and filmmakers whose knowledge of the early avant-garde comes from either direct experience as a participant or from years of scholarly research. Many hard-to-find photographs and sources detail the first decades of american experimental cinema in the United States and abroad. Table of Contents Foreword Jan-Christopher Horak Words and Pictures annotated photographs 1. The Grand Experiment Bruce Posner 2. Hollywood Extras: One Tradition of Avant-Garde Film in Los Angeles David James 3. Emlen Etting: Three Films R. Bruce Elder 4. The Attraction of Nature in Early Cinema Scott MacDonald 5. Le Retour á la raison: Hidden Meaning Deke Dusinberre 6. Music for Ballet Mécanique: 90s Technology Realizes a 20s Vision Paul D. Lehrman 7. Sara Kathryn Arledge: Introspection Terry Cannon 8. Busby Berkeley and America s Pioneer Abstract Filmmakers Cecile Starr 9. Joseph Cornell: An Exploration of Sources Lynda Roscoe Hartigan 10. Discussing D.W. Griffith Jay Leyda 11. Maurice Tourneur and The Bluebird Jan-Christopher Horak 12. Diva of Decadence: Salome Kenneth Anger 13. W.K.L. Dickson: Pioneer Filmmaker Paul Spehr 14. Elizabeth Woodman Wright: Windy Ledge Farm Karan Sheldon &amp; Bruce Posner 15. Robert Florey and the Hollywood Avant-Garde Brian Taves 16. Working on The City Henwar Rodakiewicz 17. Warren Newcombe: The Enchanted City Stephen J. Schneider 18. My Films J.S. Watson, Jr. 19. J.S. Watson, Jr. Nass River Indians Lynda Jessup 20. ...And Melville Webber Dale Davis 21. Making Twenty-four Dollar Island Robert Flaherty 22. Avant-Garde Production in America Lewis Jacobs (excerpts) 23. Rutherford Boyd and Parabola Douglas Dreishpoon 24. Notes on New Cinema of 1929 and 1930 Harry Alan Potamkin 25. Herman G. Weinberg: Autumn Fire Robert A. Haller 26. Unanswered Questions: Eisensteins Qué Viva México! Herman G. Weinberg 27. My First Movie and The Hearts of Age Orson Welles interviewed by Peter Bogdanovich 28. Highway 66: Montage Notes for a Documentary Film Lewis Jacobs 29. The American Vanguard: Flux and Experience R. Bruce Elder 30. New Artistic Process Claire Parker and Alexandre Alexeieff</p>

Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1893-1941

Bruce Posner

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