Paris Expérimental
Fondées en 1985 par Prosper Hillairet, Christian Lebrat et Giovanna Puggioni, les éditions Paris Expérimental se consacrent essentiellement au cinéma d'avant-garde et expérimental.
Elles publient des livres de références ainsi que des essais sur des cinéastes, des films ou des points particuliers de l'histoire de cette forme de cinéma. Certaines publications sont bilingues (en anglais ou en italien) et/ou des coéditions avec le Centre Pompidou, Re:voir et Light Cone.
Cecile Starr and Experimental Animation
Cecile Starr (1921-2014) dedicated her life to the recognition of film as a visual art. She worked, as a writer, educator, and curator, to raise awareness of experimental film in general and women film artists in particular.
This book includes her contributions to Experimental Animation, originally published in 1976, as well as a collection of her other writing on the historical roots of avant-garde film. It is prefaced by the personal reflections of a number of artists and curators on her impact on their lives.
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Radical Cinema
In this expanded edition of Cinéma Radical, first published in French in 2008, the artist Christian Lebrat reflects on a cinema that "follows its own rules and questions the very definition of the medium."
2nd edition. English translation by Anna Doyle. To be published in May 2021
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Passages du Cinema
Comment « rendre compte » des expérimentations sans récit et comment « expérimenter » depuis les récits du cinéma narratif ? Dans les textes écrits par Prosper Hillairet, des passages s'opèrent, circulent dans les films, entre les films, les styles, les cinéastes, les époques. L' ensemble, tour à tour consacré à l'avant-garde des années 20, comme aux cinéastes expérimentaux français des années 70 et 80, avec quelques incursions tardives dans le cinéma narratif, tisse une réflexion à partir du cinéma comme « forme visuelle ».
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Germaine Dulac: Writings On Cinema (1919-1937)
A pioneer of cinema, Germaine Dulac (1882-1942) is one of the major figures of the 1920s French Avant-Garde. Hugely influential, she founded and directed numerous organisations and, in parallel, was a tireless activist in the defense of women's rights.
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Christian Lebrat - Radical Cinema
In Cinéma Radical, first published in French in 2008, the artist Christian Lebrat reflects on a cinema that "follows its own rules and questions the very definition of the medium." His essays analyse the work of major film artists, including Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, Marcel Duchamp, Germaine Dulac, Hollis Frampton, Ken Jacobs, Peter Kubelka, Fernand Léger, Maurice Lemaître, Man Ray, Jonas Mekas, Paul Sharits, and Michael Snow, among others.
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Standish Lawder and The Cubist Cinema
Standish Lawder was a film artist and an art historian. This book is an attempt both to appreciate Lawder as an artist and to make his singular achievement as an art historian more available.
Two essays on his films accompany the complete text of his pioneering study of the European avant-garde of the 1920s, The Cubist Cinema.
Links are provided to some of Lawder's films as well as many of the seminal works in the early history of experimental film.
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Germaine Dulac - Writings on Cinema
Edited by Prosper Hillairet, this new English translation brings together the principal texts, interviews, and speeches by the pioneering filmmaker and feminist Germaine Dulac (1882 1942), a major figure in the history of experimental film
Links are provided to many of the key films mentioned by Dulac.
Writings on Cinema is available
for Kindle here
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The present publication in e-book format is an english translation from the original 1994 edition, now out-of-print, with a new preface by PROSPER HILLAIRET that puts DULAC's importance and current relevance into perspective, and a foreword by TAMI M. WILLIAMS, president of Domitor – the International Society for the Study of Early Cinema and author of Germaine Dulac: A Cinema of Sensations.
English translation by Scott Hammen
Foreword by Tami M. Williams
New preface by Prosper Hillairet
Germaine Dulac - Écrits sur le cinéma (1919-1937)
Pionnière du cinéma, Germaine Dulac (1882-1942) est une des grandes figures de l'Avant-Garde française des Années 20. Personnalité importante, elle initiera et sera à la tête de nombreuses organisations et, parallèlement, mènera une activité inlassable pour la défense des droits des femmes.
Dans ses réalisations, Dulac expérimente les nouvelles possibilités d'expression du cinéma. Elle réalisera une vingtaine de films à partir de 1916. La Souriante Mme Beudet (1923) et La Coquille et le clergyman (1927), d'après Antonin Artaud, sont parmi ses films marquants.
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HOLON (1982-2017)
Holon is a flipbook that creates an illusion of motion when the pages are flipped through rapidly.
The images of this artist's flip book are taken from an eponymous abstract film made by Christian Lebrat in 1982. The book can be turned over and flipped as well; the two directions correspond to the two sections of the film. It comes in a sleeve. The resulting artwork presents the film in another form.
A flip book for the curious, for collectors, for flipbook lovers.
Limited edition of 800 copies.
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