Oo, I like this thread. But!
"I think it would also be a little foolish of me to 'blindly' watch
experimental films willy nilly and expect to understand them"
Oh, I don't know about that. Blind is good. Plus, you're not actually blind.
:)
That being said:
This one's a whole lotta fun to read: On the Camera Arts and Consecutive
Matters<
http://www.amazon.com/Camera-Arts-Consecutive-Matters-Writings/dp/0262062763/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1311126701&sr=1-1>by
Hollis Frampton.
For example, for experimental cinema from India, or rather, Cinema of
Prayoga, this would be appropriate: Cinema of
Prayoga<
http://www.amazon.com/Cinema-Prayoga-Indian-Experimental-1913-2006/dp/0955388104/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1311126370&sr=8-1>
An older (than Visionary Film) overview of the scene is actually a free pdf
now on archive.org - An Introduction to American Underground
Film<
http://www.archive.org/details/introductiontoam00rena> by
Sheldon Renan
This is a thick tome of a book, with lots of writings by all the folk who
were once or still are there, purdy pictures, and makes a good weapon: Buffalo
Heads<
http://www.amazon.com/Buffalo-Heads-Practice-Pioneers-1973--1990/dp/0262720507/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1311127412&sr=1-1>
.
This is a short, sweet essay: Devotional
Cinema<
http://www.amazon.com/Devotional-Cinema-2nd-Nathaniel-Dorsky/dp/1931157065/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1311126666&sr=1-1>by
Nathaniel Dorsky.
--
-ekrem serdar
austin, tx
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