[Frameworks] new book, AVANT-DOC

[Scott MacDonald]

*PS Oops, I meant to say Oxford University Press.Sorry!*

On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Scott MacDonald <smacdona at hamilton.edu>
wrote:

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>
> *Dear Frameworkers,*
> *Here is the Press's description of my new book, AVANT-DOC: Intersections
> of Documentary and Avant-Garde Cinema. The book may be of interest for some
> of you:*
>
> *Avant-Doc*: 23 in-depth interviews exploring the intersections between
> documentary and avant-garde filmmaking. Scott MacDonald reviews early
> overlaps between what have seemed two distinct traditions, then talks with
> seminal figures in the evolution of ethnographic film (Robert Gardner and
> Lucien Castaing-Taylor,  founder of Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab,
> avant-doc’s most productive studio) and personal documentary (Ed Pincus,
> Alfred Guzzetti, Ross McElwee, Nina Davenport, Jonathan Caouette) and with
> crucial contributors to the modern European “avant-doc”: Dutch-Indonesian
> Leonard Retel Helmrich, Austrian Michael Glawogger, and Portuguese Susana
> de Sousa Dias. Paweł Wojtasik discusses how a mystical experience freed him
> from depression so that he could realize a cinematic form of perceptual
> transcendence; and Todd Haynes discusses his early faux documentary, *Superstar:
> the Karen Carpenter Story* and how his early experiences with avant-garde
> filmmakers and experimental documentaries paved the way for the commercial
> anti-biopic *I’m Not There*.
>
>             MacDonald’s interviews with filmmakers who have been working
> for decades create a context for a panorama of discussions about recent
> breakthroughs, including Jane Gillooly’s *Suitcase of Love and Shame*,
> Amie Siegel’s *DDR/DDR*, Alexander Olch’s *The Windmill Movie*, Betzy
> Bromberg’s *Voluptuous Sleep*, Godfrey Reggio’s *Visitors*,
> Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel’s *Leviathan*, Jennifer Proctor’s *A
> Movie by Jen Proctor*, and Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez’s *Manakamana*.
> The 22 filmmaker interviews are preceded by a conversation with Annette
> Michelson about what led to her early championing of documentary pioneer
> Dziga Vertov and avant-garde filmmakers Stan Brakhage, Yvonne Rainer, and
> Hollis Frampton in *Artforum*. An extended discussion of the thinking
> behind Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab concludes the volume.
>
>
> *Best,*
>
> *Scott*
>
> *Scott MacDonald*
>
>
>
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