A third book publication, provisionally titled Avant-Garde Film, and based on the conference in September 2004, is in preparation. It will be published by Rodopi.

Provisional List of Contents

I: ABSTRACTION, SURREALISM, FUTURISM: THE CINEMA OF THE HISTORICAL AVANT-GARDE

R. Bruce Elder: Viking Eggeling and Hans Richter: the Dream of a Universal Language and the Birth of the Absolute Film

Rudolf Kuenzli: Dada Film: On Man Ray

Al Rees: Frames and Windows: visual space in abstract cinema

Michael Korfmann: On Mario Peixoto's "Limite"

Marina Burke: Mayakovsky: Film: Futurism.

Tami Williams: From Figurative to Abstract: Germaine Dulac's Fiction Films

Alexander Graf: Berlin-Moscow: On the Montage

Aesthetic in the Ruttmann's and Vertov's City Symphonies of the 1920s

II: POST-WAR AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN EXPERIMENTS

Maureen Turim: The Interiority of Space: Maya Deren and Progeny

Bernd Kiefer: On Kenneth Anger

Inez Hedges: Stan Brakhage's Visionary "Faust" Films

Dietrich Scheunemann: Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol: Notes on an Intricate Relationship

Prof. Pierre Sorlin: Transformations in Avant-Garde Filmmaking between the 1920s and the 1960s: On Luis Buñuel

Sascha Bru/Prof. Bart Keunen: It's a Kind of Magic: World construction in Surrealist and Flemish Magical-Realist fiction and cinema

Ursula Böser: Inscriptions of Light and The 'Calligraphy of Decay' - Volatile Representation in Bill Morrison's Decasia

Nicky Hamlyn: Peter Kubelka's Arnulf Rainer

III: NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND MEDIA CONVERGENCE: THE CONTEMPORARY AVANT-GARDE FILM

William C. Wees: Light-Play and the Aesthetics of Avant-Garde Film

Frédérique Devaux: On Found Footage and Optical Printing in French Films of the 1980s and 1990s

Tania Ørum: Danish Avant-Garde Filmmakers of the 1960s: Technology, Cross-Aesthetics and Politics

Günter Berghaus: From Video Art to Video Performance: The Work of Ulrike Rosenbach

Jonathan Walley: The 'Paracinema' of Anthony McCall and Tony Conrad

Yvonne Spielmann: Performing Projection: Paul Sharits' film works

Martine Beugnet: Experimental French Cinema: the Figural and the Formless: Nicolas Rey's Terminus for you (1996) and Pip Chodorov's Charlemagne 2: Piltzer, (2002)

Margit Grieb: New Media and Feminist Interventions: Valie Export's Medial Anagrams