A History of Swedish Experimental Film Culture: From Early Animation to Video Art

, by Andersson, Lars Gustaf; Sundholm, John; Widding, Astrid Soderbergh

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ISBN: 9780861966998 | 0861966996
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 10/20/2010

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This first-ever study of Swedish experimental film represents the results of a Swedish Research Council initiative in 2006--2008. The essays address the institutions, filmmakers, and films important to the history of experimental film in Sweden, and place this history in larger artistic and socio-cultural contexts. The authors look at the work of the Independent Film Group, regional Fluxus groups, E.A.T., and figures such as Viking Eggeling, Rune Hagberg, Pontus Hultén, Öyvind Fahlström, Leo Reis, Bo Jonsson, and Åke Karlung.

Acknowledgements	p. 8
The Writing of a History of Swedish Experimental Film	p. 10
Minor Histories of Minor Cinemas	p. 11
Minor Cinemas and Experimental Film	p. 11
Discourse Analysis and Historiography	p. 13
New Film History and Emergent Film Histories	p. 14
Practices of Closure: Culture and Memory	p. 16
Experimental Film and Intermediality	p. 19
National or International Cinema?	p. 23
Swedish Experimental Film until the 1950s: The Pre-History from Cartoon to Feature Film	p. 28
Film Culture and Experimental Cinema	p. 29
The European Context and the Swedish Condition	p. 30
Animation Culture: Victor Bergdahl and Early Animation	p. 31
Reluctant Modernism: The Swedish Artists and the European Modernist Movement	p. 34
Viking Eggeling and the Quest for Universal Language	p. 36
The Lost Arabesques of Reinhold Holtermann	p. 41
Early Film Criticism and Theory	p. 43
Young Writers, Early Cinephilia and the Cinema	p. 45
The Film Society Movement and the Film Journals	p. 51
"Experimental Film is Dead, Long Live Experimental Film!"	p. 55
Gerd Osten: Interlude with Dance	p. 57
Gosta Werner: Cinephilia and the Art of the Craft	p. 59
Arne Sucksdorff: Documentarist in a Poetic Mode	p. 61
Rune Hagberg: Film Noir and Post-War Angst	p. 63
The Aporias of Early Experimental Film Culture in Sweden	p. 66
The Emergence of Experimental Film	p. 68
Arbetsgruppen för film/The Independent Film Group	p. 69
Eivor Burbeck and Råland Häggbom: Early Film Production at The Independent Film Group	p. 73
The Discourse on Amateur and Experimental Film	p. 75
Peter Weiss: Resistance and Underground	p. 79
Kinetic Art and Moderna Museet	p. 87
Pontus Hultén and his Companions: Chance and Play	p. 91
A New Venue for Film: The Opening of Moderna Museet	p. 98
The Art Movements of the 1960s: Film and the Art Scene	p. 100
Billy Klüver and the New Art of the 1960s	p. 101
Venues of the Avant-garde: Fylkingen, Pistolteatern and Marionetteatern	p. 102
Regional Avant-garde and Beyond	p. 104
Carl Slättne and the Poetry of Politics and Place	p. 106
Music and Film	p. 108
The Creative Producer and his Director	p. 113
The Expanded Field of Experimental Film	p. 115
Jan Håfström and Claes Söderquist: Matter and Memory	p. 117
The Extension of Independent Film Production	p. 122
A New Form of Support: State Funding and the Swedish Film Institute	p. 123
Leo Reis and Optical Architecture	p. 124
Bo Jonsson and His Contemporaries at the Film School	p. 125
Multimedia and Performance Art: Åke Karlung, Öyvind Fahlström	p. 129
Pre- and post-1968: Peter Kylberg and the Making of Experimental Features	p. 137
The Swedish Reception of New American Cinema	p. 142
The Changing Landscape of Independent Film Production	p. 145
FilmCentrum/Film Centre: A Political Avant-garde	p. 146
The (Re)Turn to Documentary	p. 153
Filmverkstan/The Film Workshop: Film as Public Sphere	p. 154
Films and Filmmakers at the Film Workshop	p. 158
The Rise of Animation	p. 160
Experimental Animation and the Aesthetics of Immersion: Olle Hedman	p. 162
Gunvor Nelson and the Unboundedness of the Moving Image	p. 167
The Expanded Field of the Experimental Moving Image	p. 178
The Emergence of Video Art	p. 179
Institutional Frames for a New Art Form	p. 182
From Documenting Technique to Art Form	p. 187
Ann-Sofi Sidén: Explorations into the History of Mentality	p. 190
Returns and Openings	p. 194
Bibliography	p. 198
Endnotes	p. 212
Name Index	p. 236
Film Index	p. 244
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