As straight history:
John Hanhardt's A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE CINEMA (NY: American
Federation of Arts, 1976).
(Like Anthology, proposes a canon.)
Wheeler Dixon, THE EXPLODING EYE: A RE-VISONARY HISTORY OF THE 1960s AMERICAN
EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA (Albany, SUNY Press, 1997.
Not
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1. Re: (Un)relieable perceptual information
I once drafted a running list of great shots,
One experimental film not to be missed in this category is SILBERWALD, a
3-screen installation piece by Christoph Girardet. It's a sort of
creepification of the heimat genre; up on YouTube at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOPXrGsR63ohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOPXrGsR63o
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Maybe:
Broughton's THIS IS IT
Anything by Robert Breer
Ann Severson's ANIMALS RUNNING
Gunvor Nelson's MY NAME IS OONA
Ken Jacobs's OPTIC ANTICS [featuring Laurel and Hardy]
Kubelka or Conrad flicker films
Gehr's SERENE VELOCITY
Awesh's MARTINA'S PLAYHOUSE [watch it first, of course]
Wegman's Man