Moving Images on the Margins: Experimental Film in Late Socialist East Germany

by Seth Howes

In the German Democratic Republic during the 1970s and 1980s, more than two hundred films and videos, many of them experimental, were made outside government-run institutions despite legal restrictions on independent filmmaking, and despite the state-owned DEFA studio system's resistance to experimental film. Many were by professional artists who incorporated their painted, sculpted, and performed works in their films and then re-integrated their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1640140689
• ISBN13: 9781640140684
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"