Direct Theory: Experimental Motion Pictures as Major Genre

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139 Index Page numbers in italics indicate illustrations. Titles of films, in italics, are followed by the name of the filmmaker or filmmakers in parentheses. AAG (American avant-garde), 47–56 Absolute Animation, 123 acollaborative control, 25–26 Allen, Robert C., 68–69 All My Life (Bruce Baille), 75 Allures (Jordan Belson), 73–74 Alpha Mandala (Joseph Anderson and Edward S. Small), 82–84, 83 altered states of consciousness, 44 Ancient of Days (Bill Viola), 101–2 Andalusian Dog, An [Un Chien Andulou] (Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali), 41–42 Anderson, Joseph D., 82–84 Andrew, Dudley, 9, 12, 57 Anger, Kenneth, 53, 87 animation, 27, 39, 55–58, 79–82, 123, 130n3 Antiqua 78 R.P.M. (Jean Decarie), 103 arbitrary access, 115–16 archives, 8 Arnheim, Rudolf, 13–14, 48–49, 74 art video, 7 articulation, 16–17, 70–73 auteur theory, 21 Autumn Fire (Herman Weinberg), 50–51 avant-garde: American (AAG), 47–53, 56; European (EAG), 32–46 Back & Forth (Michael Snow), 124 Baille, Bruce, 75, 85 Ballet Mécanique (Fernand Léger), 35–36, 38, 131n3 Barbeau, Richard, 103 Barthes, Roland, 17, 72 Bartlett, Scott, 70–71, 73–74, 77 Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein ), 32, 80 Bazin, André, 9–11, 61, 75–76 Beck, Stephen, 97–98, 99 Begone Dull Care (Norman McLaren ), 53–56, 55 Belson, Jordan, 73–74 Berg, Chuck, 131n6 Berlin (Walter Ruttman), 42–43 Beydler, Gary, 80–82, 81 Blazes (Robert Breer), 79 brain, split, 14 Brakhage, Stan, 57–58 Breer, Robert, 79 Breton, André, 35, 39 brevity, 26 broadcast television, 112 Buckner, Barbara, 100–101, 101 Buñuel, Luis, 41–42 Cahiers du cinema (film journal), 21 Campus, Peter, 95–97, 96 Cathod, Neam, 103 cathode ray tube (CRT), 91 index 140 Cavalcanti, Alberto, 42–43 Cheng, W. S., 123–25, 125, front cover Chien Andalou, Un (Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali), 41–42 Chinese Firedrill (Will Hindle), 87 Chott el Djerid (Bill Viola), 105–6 cinevideo, 71–72, 77, 87–88, 93, 103–4 city symphonies, 42–43 Clair, René, 39 clatter montage, 79–80 closed-eye vision, 27, 59, 60, 65 cognitive science, 59 compilation, 62–67, 70, 104 Composition in Blue (Oskar Fischinger ), 44 Conner, Bruce, 63–67, 66 Conrad, Tony, 82 cortical asymmetry, 14, 16 Cosmic Ray (Bruce Conner), 63–66 critical cinema, 18–19, 20 Crossroads (Bruce Conner), 64 cubism, 34 Curtis, David, 26, 43, 47, 50 dadaism, 35 Dali, Salvador, 41 Decarie, Jean (pseud., Neam Cathod), 103 deconstruction, 15, 19, 30, 85 depth of field, 76 Deren, Maya, 52–53 Derrida, Jacques, 15, 19, 85–86, 134n35 diegesis, 35, 37–38, 39, 42, 61,65 digital, 1, 4, 27, 108. 110–25 digital specificity of Simon Payne, 120–22 direct theory, 12–13, 18–19, 23; theses, 6–7 discourse, images as, 7, 13, 16–17, 53, 100, 108–10 distribution centers, 8 docudrama, 24, 25, 42, 80 documentary, 22–24, 41–42 dreams, 27, 35, 39, 41–42, 52, 58–60, 73, 106 Duchamp, Marcel, 37 EAG (European avant-garde), 32–46 EAI (Electronic Arts Intermix), 94, 97, 103 Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper), 62 Eco, Umberto, 3, 11, 17, 77 economic independence, 26 Eggeling, Viking, 36, 36, 37 Eisenstein, Sergei, 10–12, 13, 16, 32–35, 45, 48, 61–65, 79–82 Eisenstein-Bazin debate, 9–10, 85 Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), 8, 94, 97, 103, 135n7, 135n17 Emak Bakia (Man Ray), 39 entoptic. See closed-eye vision Entr’acte (René Clair), 39, 41 expanded cinema, 68 experimental film/video/digital: characteristics of, 25–30 as major genre, 22–25 expressionism, 47, 50 factual. See documentary fictive differential, 29, 33, 37, 114 fictive feature, 21–22 Fielding, Raymond, 1–2, 3–5, 8, 68–69, 90–91, 110, 125 Fireworks (Kenneth Anger), 53 First Dream [Hatsu Yume] (Bill Viola), 105–7 Fischinger, Oskar, 44 fixed camera, 75–81, 85, 95–97, 101–6 Flicker, The (Tony Conrad), 82 flicker film, 82–84, 134n32 Florey, Robert, 47 formalism, Russian, 32 Fragment of Seeking (Curtis Harrington ), 53 index 141 Freud, Sigmund, 35, 39, 42, 59 futurism, 34–35 Gazzaniga, Michael, 14 General Line, The (Sergei Eisenstein ), 61 generic characteristics of experimental film/video, 25–30 genre theory, 21–23 genres of experimental film and video, 88 Gomery, Douglas, 1–2, 69 Governor, The (Stan Brakhage), 87 grande syntagmatique, 11 Griffith, D. W., 2, 90 H2O (Ralph Steiner), 47–49 Hagiwara, Sakumi, 85...