Description

Strange Questions: Experimental Film as Conversation

Author/Editor: Gerry Fialka

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CONTENTS

From Gerry Fialka, artist, writer and para-media ecologist, comes Strange Questions. This volume contains compelling interviews with notables in avant-garde cinema that offer insights into moving image art—its creative processes, formative influences and hidden psychic effects. Strange Questions links powerful personal stories with the contemporary media-scape.

Contents:

Foreword: David James
Interviews by Gerry Fialka with:

Chick Strand
Lynne Sachs
George Manupelli
Jay Rosenblatt
Tom Gunning
Martha Colburn
Robert Nelson
Nina Menkes
Larry Gottheim
Gene Youngblood
Evan Meaney
Mike Hoolboom
Theo Anthony

Fialka is a damn good interviewer. His questions are sometimes so precise it tickles and sometimes so grand that one feels on the edge of a new spiritual awakening. (Lynne Sachs)

Gerry Fialka, artist, writer, para-media ecologist, lectures on experimental film, avant-garde art and subversive social media at NYU, MIT, USC, UCLA and Cal Arts. He has been called “the multimedia renaissance man” by the Los Angeles Times and a “cultural revolutionary” by the LA Weekly. 

Publisher: Laughtears Press
ISBN: 978-1-7186-1861-9
Dimensions: 6 x 9 inches
355 pp.