Interests

Below are two posts which will gradually host links and references to important films and artworks, as well as to a number of books, which have influenced my thinking over the past weeks and months.
Unfortunately there is no video of Stan Brakhage's Window Water Baby Moving (1959) available on the internet at this time - it can be found on the Double DVD Anthology By Brakhage which is also worth looking at in general!

Window Water Baby Moving by Stan Brakhage (1959)

Films / Art

Poetic Surrealist Film: Maya Deren

Meshes of the Afternoon by Maya Deren (1943)

Meshes of the Afternoon Part 2 by Maya Deren (1943)

A Study in Choreography for Camera by Maya Deren (1945)


Lyrical Expressionist Film: Stan Brakhage

The Dante Quartet by Stan Brakhage (1987)

Rage Net by Stan Brakhage (1988)


Video and Installation Art: Bill Viola

Bibliography

Battcock, Gregory (ed.) (1967) The New American Cinema – A Critical Anthology New York: E. P. Dutton

Berger, John (1972) Ways of Seeing London: Penguin Books

Brakhage, Stan (1976) Metaphors on Vision Anthology Film Archives

Brougher, Kerry (2005) Visual Music: Synaesthesia in Art and Music since 1900 London: Thames & Hudson

Camper, Fred (2003) By Brakhage – An Anthology DVD Booklet The Criterion Collection

Emmerling, Leonhard (2003) Pollock Köln: Taschen

Hamlyn, Nicky (2003) Film Art Phenomena London: BFI

Kandinsky, Vassily (1912) Concerning the Spiritual Art (tr. Sadler, M. T. H.) New York: Dover Publishers

Lynton, Norbert (1989) The Story of Modern Art Second Edition Oxford: Phaidon

Morley, Simon (2003) Writing on the Wall: Word and the Image in Modern Art London: Thames & Hudson

Nauman, Bruce (2005) Please Pay Attention Please: Bruce Nauman’s Words – Writings and Interviews Kraynak, Janet (ed.) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press

Nauman, Bruce (2004) Raw Materials London: Tate Publishing

O’Pray, Michael (2003) Avant-Garde Film – Forms, Themes and Passions London: Wallflower

Sitney, P. Adams (2002) Visionary Film – The American Avant-Garde 1943 – 2000 Third Edition Oxford: Oxford University Press

Townsend, Chris (2004) The Art Of Bill Viola New York: Thames & Hudson

Viola, Bill (1997) Bill Viola/ curated by David A. Ross, Peter Sellars and Perov, Kira (ed.) Paris: Flammarion