Practical dreamers [[electronic resource] ] : conversations with movie artists / / Mike Hoolboom

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457292803321
• Autore: Hoolboom Michael
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Toronto, : Coach House Books, c2008
• ISBN: 1-77056-180-3; 1-77056-181-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1044 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.43/750971
• Soggetti: Experimental films - Canada - History and criticism; Video art - Canada; Motion picture producers and directors - Canada; Independent filmmakers - Canada; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Smartbomb / Daniel Cockburn -- Pricless / Helen Lee -- Beyond the usual limits / Deirdre Logue -- Miss Chief / Kent Monkman -- Ironic nostalgia / Nelson Henricks -- I am a conjuror / Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby -- The singer / Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay -- The Red Army is the strongest / Shelly Niro -- Gambling, gods and LSD / Peter Mettler -- Reality and motive in the documentary / Donigan Cumming -- Memos of resistance / Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof -- Camera obscura for dreams / Midi Onodera -- Home is a movie / John Price -- After Charlie Brown and Liberance / Daniel Barrow -- My heart the travel agent / Wayne Yung -- From Leabanon to Kelowna / Jayce Salloum -- Soft like me / Jeff Erbach -- After science / Su Rynard -- Doubling / Monique Mournblow -- My rectum is not a grave / Steve Reinke -- Twice-told tales / Aleesa Cohene -- Season of the boys / Ho Tam -- Colour processing / Christina Battle -- Blinding light / Alex MacKenzie -- Life is pronography / Jubal Brown -- Monster / Paulette Phillips -- Thinking picture / Richard Fung.
• Sommario/riassunto: 'The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.' ? Man Ray What if there were movies made the same way as ; suits, custom fitted, each one tailored for one person? Not broadcast, but narrowcast? Not theatres around the world showing the same globalized pictures, but instead a local circumstance, a movie so particular, so peculiar, it could cure night blindness or vertigo? Welcome to the world of fringe movies, where artists have been busy putting queer shoulders to the wheels, or bending light to talk about First Nations rights (and making it funn