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To Boldly Go:
a starters guide to hand made and diy films, Esther Urlus
Structural Film Anthology
(1976/1978) Peter Gidal (ed.)
REMI
Re-engineering the Moving Image
Film as a Subversive Art
Amos Vogel
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Re:Inventing The Pioneers:
Film experiments on hand made silver gelatin emulsion and color methods, Esther Urlus
WET LAB + PROCESSING
SOUND ON FILM
COLOUR ANALYSIS
FILM SCANNING
FILM EDITING
Digressions on the Photographic Agony
Hollis Frampton, Artforum, XI, 3 (November 1972), pp. 43-51.
A Self-Preservation Guide for Film/Video-Makers
by Bill Brand with Toni Treadway
Recipes for Disaster
a handcrafted film cookbooklet
Helen Hill, 2005
Expanded Cinema
Gene Youngblood, 1970
A History of Experimental Film and Video:
From Canonical Avant-garde to Contemporary British Practice (1999). A.L. Rees
Women's Experimental Cinema:
Critical Frameworks
Robin Blaetz (ed.), 2007
Handmade films and artist-run labs: The chemical sites of film’s counterculture. Rossella Catanese and Jussi Parikka, NECSUS 2018
Inventing Cinema:
Machines, Gestures and Media History
Benoît Turquety, 2019
Post-Cinema:
Cinema in the Post-art Era
Chateau and Moure (eds.) 2020
Artist-run film labs, an historical perspective
A text by Nicolas Rey (2009-2012)
Analogue Cookbook
(Journal)
Kate E. Hinshaw, ed.
Metaphors on Vision
Stan Brakhage, P. Adams Sitney (ed.), 1963
Celluloid and Self-Sufficiency: Artist-Run Labs
Elena Duque, CCCBLAB, 2016
'Kitchen Sink Cinema:
Artist-Run Film Laboratories'
Genevieve Yue, Film Comment
2015
Old Weird Materialism: Production and Distribution of Artist Film
Marcy Saude, NECSUS 2018
Articulated Light: The Emergence of Abstract Film in America
Gerald O’Grady, Bruce Posner (eds.), 1995
Experimental Filmmaking:
Break the Machine
Kathryn Ramey, 2016
An Anagram of Ideas
on Art, Form and Film
Maya Deren, 1947
Film as Film: Formal Experiment in Film, 1910-1975
Hayward Gallery, London. 1979
Experimental Filmmaking and the Motion Picture Camera:
An Introductory Guide for Artists and Filmmakers
Joel Schlemowitz, 2019
The Abominable Community:
Notes on Independent Filmmakers’ Laboratories
Mariya Nikiforova, 2019
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