Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction 1. The Themersons and the Polish Avant-Garde: Warsaw-Paris-London, by A. L. Rees 2. 'The Inexpressible Unearthly Beauty of the Cinematograph': The Impact of Polish Futurism on the First Polish Avant-Garde Films, by Kamila Kuc Excerpts from the 'Archives' of the Polish Avant-Garde 3. The Search for a 'More Spacious Form': Experimental Trends in Polish Documentary (1945-1989), by Mikolaj Jazdon 4. Avant-Garde and the Thaw: Experimentation in Polish Cinema of the 1950s and 1960s, by Marcin Gizycki 5. Avant-Garde Exploits: The Cultural Highs and Lows of Polish Emigre Cinema, by Jonathan L. Owen 6. The Mechanical Imagination-Creativity of Machines: Film Form Workshop 1970-1977, by Ryszard Kluszczynski 7. The 1980s: From Specificity to the New Tradition-Avant-Garde Film and Video Art in Poland, by Ryszard Kluszczynski Film Form Workshop Statements 8. A Rebellion a la Polonaise, by Mateusz Werner Bibliography Filmography Index of Names

About the Author

Kamila Kuc teaches film at the universities of Kingston and Brighton, UK. She is co-editor Laura Mulvey: Do Utraty Wzroku (ha!Art, 2010). Michael O'Pray is retired Professor of Film in the School of Art, Architecture and Theory, University of East London. He has published widely on avant-garde film and animation.

Reviews

Highly recommended. CHOICE The variety of voices contained within this slim volume celebrates the different kinds of discourse generated by and about avant-garde filmmakers. The result is a collection as formally experimental as many of the films in question-one that makes for exuberant reading. Slavic and East European Journal