Kim Knowles has been writing and teaching about experimental film for over 15 years and currently lectures in Alternative and Experimental Film at Aberystwyth University in Wales.
She curates the Black Box strand of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. A programme described as “Daring, challenging, uncompromising and thought-provoking” with short and feature-length experimental and artists’ films from around the world. In EP.27 we discuss her journey into experimental film and the screening when she fell in love with the experience of watching 16mm film projected in a cinema. We talk about her militant defence of photochemical film, materialist film, her experience attending The Independent Imaging Retreat (Film Farm) in Canada and lecturing in Alternative and Experimental Film at Aberystwyth University in Wales. Kims latest book 'Experimental Film and Photochemical Practices' has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan, and available to purchase here. Artists, works and texts mentioned in the interview. Entr'acte - a film by René Clair (1924) Loretta - a film Jeanne Liotta (2003) The experimental filmmaker Joel Schlemowitz, based in Brooklyn who working with 16mm film, shadowplay, magic lanterns, and stereographic media. Jennifer Reeves - the New York-based filmmaker working primarily on 16mm film Experimental Filmmaker and Executive Director of Film-Makers CooperativeMM Serra who we interviewed for EP.26 - listen here. Paul Sharits - an avant-garde filmmaker noted "for manipulating the film stock itself to create a variety of fascinating, abstract light and colourplays when projected on the screen" Peter Gidal's introductory essay to the Structural Film Anthology, Published by the BFi in 1976. The American visual artist Carolee Schneemann Pip Chodorov - filmmaker, composer, writer, curator. Co-founder of filmlab/collective L’Abominable, founder of Re:voir Video. Frédérique Devaux - filmmaker and lecturer - work distributed by Light Cone. The Ethical Presenter: Or How to Have Good Arguments over Dinner - article by Laura U. Marks (2004) The Future of Nostalgia by Svetlana Boym (2002) Residual Media by Charles R. Acland (2006) BEEF - Bristol Experimental Expanded Film - listen to our interview with this collective here. New books recommended by Kim. Cinema Expanded: Avant-Garde Film in the Age of Intermedia - Jonathan Walley (2020) Making Images Move - Handmade Cinema and the Other Arts - Gregory Zinman (2020) Artists’ Moving Image in Britain Since 1989 - Erika Balsom, Lucy Reynolds, Sarah Perks (2019) Women Artists, Feminism and the Moving Image – Lucy Reynolds (2019) London's Arts Labs and the 60s Avant-Garde - David Curtis (2020) Experimental and Expanded Animation - New Perspectives and Practices - Vicky Smith and Nicky Hamlyn (2018)
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Experimental film and installation artist Jason Moyes lives and works in rural Scotland and has been exploring the moving image since 2007. His work has been shown in the UK, North America, Europe and Asia. He is a founding member of the Moving Image Makers Collective.
Into the Mothlight is sponsored by The Film and Video Poetry Society.
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