Ex-Cinema From a Theory of Experimental Film and Video [Hardcover]

What does it mean for film and video to be experimental? In this collection of essays framed by the concept ex-meaningfrom, outside,andno longerAkira Mizuta Lippit explores the aesthetic, technical, and theoretical reverberations of avant-garde film and video.Ex-Cinemais a sustained reflection on the ways in which experimental media artists move outside the conventions of mainstream cinema and initiate a dialogue on the meaning of cinema itself.

Akira Mizuta Lippitis Professor of Cinematic Arts, Comparative Literature, and East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California. He is on the board of Film Quarterly, and is author ofAtomic Light (Shadow Optics)andElectric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife.

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EXC00 Exergue Ex-cinema
EXC01 Out of the Blue (ex nihilo)
EXC02 Extimacy: Outside Time and Super-realist Cinema
EXC03 Cinemnesis: Martin Arnolds Memory Apparatus
EXC04 The Rhetoric of Images, of the Unimaginable
EXC05 Derrida, Specters, Self-reflection
EXC06 (Parenthesis: Video Ergo Sum)
EXC07 Digesture: Gestures Without Bodies
EXC08 Extract Matthias M?ller
EXC09 Revisionary Cinema
EXC10 xxxxMA

Ex-Cinemaoffers lucid and mesmerizing readings of a broad spectrum of avant-garde films and videos, ranging from Derek Jarmans Blue to Martin Arnolds and Matthias M?llers very different found footage works, from Maya Deren to structural film, and from Su Friedrichs performative autobiographies to Diane Thaters zoo videos. Lippits passion for addressing the philosophical implications of experimental film and video is as astounding as it is laudable. Roy Grundmann, author ofAndy Warhols Blow Job



In this collection of brilliant essays on avant-garde film and video, Akira Lippit manifests a precise intelligence andl“K