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Over the last ten years many artists have turned to film and video. Sinc the beginning of the century much that had previously "been the province of painting has become incorporated into the r...apidly expanding cinema. Earlier programmes in the course have indicated how artists like Leger, Moholy Nagy and the Surrealists experimented with film. From film it was quite logical that artists should go on to work with video. Just as much Twentieth Century art has broken down, and through, the illusionistic realism of post-Renaissance painting, so film makers have tried to use film and video in non-realistic ways. They are trying to do things which they consider more appropriate to these mediums, but which may strike us as strange and perplexing, conditioned as we are by television and the conventional cinema. The programme is presented by the art critic and writer, Paul Overy. He begins with an extract from a video tape by David Hall, specially commissioned by the BBC. He then introduces and comments on the work of four experimental film-makers, who all consider their work to be the tradition of avant garde art than of cinema as we know it. 1. Speak by John Latham (extract); 2. Schwechater by Peter Kubelka; 3. Berlin horse by Malcolm Le Grice; 4. Standard time by Michael Snow
Over the last ten years many artists have turned to film and video. Sinc the beginning of the century much that had previously "been the province of painting has become incorporated into the r...apidly expanding cinema. Earlier programmes in the course have indicated how artists like Leger, Moholy Nagy and the Surrealists experimented with film. From film it was quite logical that artists should go on to work with video. Just as much Twentieth Century art has broken down, and through, the illusionistic realism of post-Renaissance painting, so film makers have tried to use film and video in non-realistic ways. They are trying to do things which they consider more appropriate to these mediums, but which may strike us as strange and perplexing, conditioned as we are by television and the conventional cinema. The programme is presented by the art critic and writer, Paul Overy. He begins with an extract from a video tape by David Hall, specially commissioned by the BBC. He then introduces and comments on the work of four experimental film-makers, who all consider their work to be the tradition of avant garde art than of cinema as we know it. 1. Speak by John Latham (extract); 2. Schwechater by Peter Kubelka; 3. Berlin horse by Malcolm Le Grice; 4. Standard time by Michael Snow
