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Gamechanger – Dóra Maurer: Kalah
“If I am unexpectedly questioned: “what is experimental film?” – my first reaction is defense. I take the question as…
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Metal / Music – István Bácskai Lauró: Fascination (1963)
With its cryptic atmosphere, sci-fi like images and unearthly music, Bácskai Lauró’s 1963 short piece is a truly playful representative…
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Lights on! – Kazimierz Bendkowski: Centre
At first Kazimierz Bendkowski’s 1973 work Centre (Centrum) seems to offer a straightforward reading. With flickering images of neon signs…
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Hungarian abstract films – Péter Klausz: Blueprint (2013)
Even though Hungary has got a rich and diverse avant-garde film culture, it seems to have almost no abstract film…
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Diversity Versus Modesty – The Czech Contemporary Experimental Film Scene (Part Two)
Preserving the Film’s Body – Analogue Practices For decades film studies, therefore experimental film studies as well have been dealing…
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Diversity Versus Modesty – The Czech Contemporary Experimental Film Scene (Part One)
In his 2013 book The Subterranean River of Cinema (Ponorná řeka kinematografie) Martin Čihák experiments with an approach quite unique…
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Interaction – Alexandra Moralesová: Shuttered Cut
According to a few sinister newspaper headlines film has been dead for almost sixty years. Yet the debate on the…
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The Regions of Experience – Alice Růžičková: Biostructures
In some sense scientists, specifically cell biologists were the first experimental filmmakers. Their stunning movies of cells, tissues and embryos…
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Female Body Art – František Wirth: In nuce
Female nudity is a frequently used device in avant-garde film. Both male and female filmmakers have experimented with several different…
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All the Wild Horses – Zoltán Huszárik: Elegy
„I will not watch a horse-centered film. I want you to know, comrade Huszárik, I only watch person-centered films.”[1] This…