Moving Images on the Margins: Experimental Film in Late Socialist East Germany by Seth Howes (review)

Though it suggests it is a book about experimental film, it is really about East German experimental art and the intermedial tendencies leading artists to work with a variety of forms, including super-8 films, performance, installations, mail art, and photography. [...]the title's reference to...

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Published inGerman Studies Review Vol. 43; no. 2; pp. 428 - 430
Main Author Smith, Briana J
Format Journal Article Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 01.05.2020
Subjects
Aesthetics
Allusion
Artists
Authorship
Cold War
Dance
Everyday life
Experimental films
German language
Literary devices
Motion picture directors & producers
Motion pictures
Multimedia
Performance art
Photography
Readers
Socialism
Visual artists
East Germany
Germany
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Summary:Though it suggests it is a book about experimental film, it is really about East German experimental art and the intermedial tendencies leading artists to work with a variety of forms, including super-8 films, performance, installations, mail art, and photography. [...]the title's reference to margins is more accurate and refers not only to the peripheral social and institutional positions inhabited by many experimental artists, but also to their desire to blur the boundaries between artistic forms. [...]readers will encounter a wide range of experimental practices woven into the projects foregrounded by Howes, including super-8 film, dance, multimedia installations, performance art, mail art, and sculpture. Other East German artists embraced experimental filmmaking within a larger artistic practice focused on building artistic networks transcending artificial Cold War divisions and bringing art closer to everyday life.
ISSN:0149-7952
2164-8646
2164-8646
DOI:10.1353/gsr.2020.0059