Adapted from classroom lectures, Brakhage's profiles of eight avant-garde filmmakers have a conversational, relaxed flow. If the tone is chummy and the frequent superlatives annoying, the narratives are nevertheless coherent. Among those we meet are Maya Deren, Voodoun priestess of Greenwich Village and well-known personality of the 1940s and '50s; Christopher MacLaine, chronicler of San Francisco's Beat movement; and Ken Jacobs, whose films include Soft Rain , Blonde Cobra , and Little Stabs at Happiness .

The Memo Book contains specially commissioned essays on different aspects of Müller\'s work as well as an extensive interview by Scott MacDonald. Matthias Müller, born in 1961, is a filmmaker as well as a visual artist working in video and photography

The Cinema of Prayoga presents the rich and unseen world of artists\' film from India. Prayoga is a Sanskrit word, which loosely translates as \'experiment\', but can also mean \'representation\'. Over the last three years, no.w.here has reseached a rich

Acting as a corrective to the skewed avant-garde history that neglects women, Women and Experimental Filmmaking gathers essays by some of the top scholars in cinema studies dealing with women experimental filmmakers.