Contents:

On the question of a materialist approach to form / Sergei Eisenstein -- The badly trained sensibility / Hans Richter -- The essence of cinema / Jean Epstein -- For a new avant-garde / Jean Epstein -- From Visual and anti-visual films / Germaine Dulac -- The essence of the cinema : the visual idea / Germaine Dulac -- The avant-garde cinema / Germaine Dulac -- Sorcery and the cinema / Antonin Artaud -- Monsieur Phot / Joseph Cornell -- Cinematography : the creative use of reality / Maya Deren -- Cine dance and two notes / Sidney Peterson -- Two notes on Mother's day / James Broughton -- Audio-visual music / John and James Whitney -- Harry Smith interview / P. Adams Sitney -- On Mahagonny / Harry Smith -- Illuminating Lucifer / Carel Rowe -- From Metaphors on vision / Stan Brakhage -- Letter to Yves Kovacs (on surrealism) / Stan Brakhage -- Letter to Ronna Page (on music) / Stan Brakhage -- The theory of metrical film / Peter Kubelka -- Andy Warhol's silence / Stephen Koch -- Toward Snow / Annette Michelson -- Two letters and notes on films / Michael Snow -- The diary film / Jonas Mekas -- Autobiography in avant-garde film / P. Adams Sitney -- Program notes / Ernie Gehr -- Two statements / Anthony McCall -- Hearing, seeing / Paul Sharits -- From Words per page / Paul Sharits -- A few remarks before I begin / Tony Conrad -- Lecture / Hollis Frampton -- A pentagram for conjuring the narrative / Hollis Frampton.