Gunvor Nelson and the Avant-Garde

ISBN-13: 9783631518380 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 176 str.

John Sundholm

Opis

Despite the fact that Swedish-American filmmaker Gunvor Nelson has been one of the most significant women in the avant-garde film tradition since the mid-60s there has been no comprehensive overview of her work and its various contexts. At last the publication of Gunvor Nelson and the Avant-Garde fills the gap.
The essays in the book are divided into four parts which offer four contexts for exploring the audiovisual connections to the work of Gunvor Nelson: conceptual mappings regarding the avant-garde and the avant-garde tradition; historical contexts in the USA and in Sweden; contemporary practices in production and distribution; the films of Gunvor Nelson in relation to the American Avant-Garde as well as her video works since the 90s. The book closes with an extensive interview with Nelson herself.

Spis treści

Contents: John Sundholm: Avant-Gardes and Modernisms - Malcolm Le Grice: Three Strands of Experimental Cinema: Abstraction, Symbolism and Existentialism - David E. James: «The Movies are a Revolution»: Film and the Counterculture - Henrik Orrje: New Beginnings: Swedish Experimental Film from Past to Present - Paul Arthur: «I Just Pass my Hands Over the Surface of Things»: On and Off the Screen, Circa 2003 - Pip Chodorov: The Paradox of «Film Art» and of Distributing Analog Works in the Digital Age - Steve Anker: Gunvor Nelson and the American Avant-Garde Film - Astrid Söderbergh Widding: The Material World Transformed: Gunvor Nelson's Videoworks - Anders Pettersson: Interview with Gunvor Nelson.

O autorze

The Editor: John Sundholm is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the division for Culture and Communication at Karlstad University, Sweden, and Reader in Cultural Analysis at Åbo Akademi University, Finland.