How to Enjoy Experimental Film

View one of Peter Donebauer's videos here for one month only! https://vimeo.com/677063525?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci Password: danadams This episode has been timed to coincide with two screenings of Peter's work at Spectacle Theater in Brooklyn NY. https://www.spectacletheater.com/peter-donebauer-the-water-cycle-and-the-mandala-cycle/ Artist Peter Donebauer joins the show again to disc...

View one of Peter Donebauer's videos here for one month only! https://vimeo.com/1133386257?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci Password: danadams This episode has been timed to coincide with two screenings of Peter's work at Spectacle Theater in Brooklyn NY. ⁠https://www.spectacletheater.com/peter-donebauer-the-water-cycle-and-the-mandala-cycle/ UK video artist Peter Donebauer has enjoyed a ric...

As well as being a teacher, publisher of great Canadian experimental films, producer of video essays and numerous other talents, Stephen Broomer is a prolific writer and editor. Here, we discuss two of his major book publications (one as author and one as co-editor) with a third due to be published soon. The first of these books is Imprints: The Films of Louise Bourque , which he co-edited with Cl...

In the final of our brief surveys of the work of three significant Canadian experimental filmmakers, Stephen Broomer (responsible for the publishing of works by the three artists discussed recently) returns to the show to discuss the work of Josephine Massarella (1957-2018). Massarella's career spans works involving various formally radical approaches to filmmaking. From durational works like One...

Richard Kerr is a giant in Canadian experimental film. His works span from early personal projects such as On Land, Over Water: Six Stories to his fiercely urgent trilogy of films with a focus across the border to the United States: The Last Days of Contrition (1986), Cruel Rhythm (1991) and Field Trip (2021). His output also includes formally radical works of "accelerated cinema" featur...

Please be advised that this episode contains discussion of subjects that some listeners may find troubling. R. Bruce Elder is one of the most prolific and acclaimed artist filmmakers currently working in Canada. In this episode we discuss Bruce's journey toward his personal filmmaking practice and focus particularly on the first two films in his epic "Book of Praise" cycle: A Man Whose Life Was Fu...

Filmmaker, video artist and current president of the Paris Films Co-Op Dominique Willoughby returns to the show to discuss his own film and video works. Fascinated by the hypnotic power of cinema, his films and videos are simultaneously mesmerising and energetic experiences. In this episode, Dominique discusses his career from his earliest experimental works, (inspired variously by CinéDoc founder...

A special episode to coincide with the start of the 50th Anniversary celebrations of the Paris Films Co-op CinéDoc. A series of special screenings are taking place in Paris from the 20th to the 30th of November and the programme will appear online shortly after. This episode features music from Parazite Système Sonore: Spot Phelizon & Joëlle Colombeau Filmmaker Dominique Willoughby is the curr...

Inter-disciplinary artist Sapphire Goss joins the show to discuss her varied work, involving art objects, installation work, still photography and our particular focus here: film and video work. In a hybrid practice, bringing together celluloid film, digital video and pre-cinema artefacts, (particularly stereoscopic photography) these are haunting works in the truest sense: the screen is haunted b...

Vivian Ostrovsky is a truly international filmmaker (as well as curator). Born in New York to a Belarusian father and Ukrainian mother, Vivian has been somewhat nomadic all of her life, regularly finding herself in Rio, Paris, New York and Tel Aviv. “Home”, she writes “is wherever I feel at home – and that might be in a hotel or on a plane or on my way to an unknown destination with a camera and r...

A continuation of our discussion of the films of Louise Bourque. In this episode, we take a closer look at a handful of Louise's films (including her latest film "Bye Bye Now"), focusing in particular on the images of houses that recur regularly in her filmography. Additionally, we discuss some of the formal concerns informing her work, including both the physical interventions with...

Louise Bourque is one of the most distinguished film artists currently working in Canada. She was born in Edmundston New Brunswick and has been making films since the late 1980s. Her body of work, by her own admission, is not vast, but it reveals a filmmaker of incredible focus  and determination when it comes to producing the work she desires. Hers are not films that always give themselves over t...

Helga Fanderl returns to discuss her work, focusing on some specific films that can now be seen on a new DVD from Re:Voir, as well as conversations about how she programmes her work. We discuss both how she assembles programmes of her short films as well as the long process of selecting the films for inclusion on this disc. In addition, Helga shares a number of stories giving background for severa...

Born in Ingolstadt in Germany, Helga Fanderl studied German, Italian and French languages and literature in Munich, Paris and Frankfurt, with an interest in becoming a poet herself. However, quite by chance, she was introduced to super-8 filmmaking via a friend and would soon find herself in the classes of Peter Kubelka. Since then, Helga has carved a unique career as a film artist, discovering an...

UK based film and video maker Ruth Novaczek has developed a distinctive style of montage, in which she freely combines material she photographs herself with an array of found footage from near innumerable sources. The style, which she describes as "Bricolage" has come to characterise much of her mature work. Photographing material on super-8, lo-res video, camera phones etc. and editing...

Filmmakers Peter Tscherkassky and Eve Heller return to the show to discuss their most recent films: Train Again and Singing In Oblivion respectively. These are two truly masterful films, capable of thrilling and moving in equal measure. Whether in Peter's visceral exploration of locomotive and cinema history Train Again or Eve's searching investigation of personal and cultural heritage in...

In a first for this show, two filmmakers join appear together in conversation. Partners Eve Heller and Peter Tscherkassky join the show to discuss their practices. Together they produced the book Film Unframed: A History of Austrian Avant-Garde Cinema , but their practices, whilst both deploying found footage are very distinct. Eve Heller's films include found footage and photographed footage,...

Born in 1939, Barbara Meter is one of the most distinguished experimental filmmakers currently working in The Netherlands. Barbara's films are highly personal, but with universal appeal, addressing themes of love, friendship, loss and memory. In a career spanning from the late 60s to the present day, her work incorporates experimental, narrative and documentary works. In this episode, Barbara...

On Thursday, 10 new episodes will begin to appear in your podcast feeds. In this clip package, you will hear the voices of the guests for the coming season (in order of appearance): Barbara Meter Eve Heller Peter Tscherkassky Ruth Novaczek Helga Fanderl Louise Bourque Sapphire Goss Vivian Ostrovsky

For our first ever "EXTRA" episode, we are joined once again by R. Bruce Elder, once described by Jonas Mekas as "the most important North American avant-garde filmmaker to emerge during the 1980s". Bruce has supplied an additional essay discussing the Gerrard St. Village / Isaacs artists scene at the time that Michael Snow was a young man, offering some insights into artists a...

A special extended episode in tribute to filmmaker Michael Snow (1928-2023), focusing on four major works: Rameau's Nephew by Diderot Thanx to Denis Young by Wilma Schoen , So Is This, La Region Centrale and the iconic Wavelength . Featuring interviews and analyses from: R. Bruce Elder Nicky Hamlyn Chris Meigh-Andrews Jim Shedden Steven Woloshen as well as archive interviews with Michael Snow...

An in depth conversation with artist, preservationist, educator and writer Stephen Broomer about his new home video label Black Zero. With the first three titles now available, Stephen discusses all three titles in detail as well as their restoration processes for home media releases and a broader discussion about viewing experimental cinema in your own home. There is a lot of variety in the relea...

Marie Losier returns for part 2 of our discussion, this time with more of a focus on her feature length works: Cassandro the Exotico! , Felix in Wonderland and the Teddy Award winning The Ballad of Genesis P and Lady Jaye , though some of the shorter film and video works are discussed as well. We discuss the highs and lows encountered when working so closely with those who star in these films as w...

Described by Guy Maddin as "The most effervescent and psychologically accurate portrait artist working in film today", Marie Losier. Marie joins H2EEF for the first of two episodes discussing her extensive and growing body of work. Regularly associated with the field of film portraits, Marie’s work also includes improvised performances involving a camera, collage like editing, careful choreography...

Filmmaker Ingo Petzke joins H2EEF from Germany to discuss his body of film work. Made mostly between the 70s and 80s, these films arguably straddle two dominant schools of filmmaking in Germany at this time. There is a clear focus on material as an art material, as well as a focus on film as personal vision, often showing an interest in Scandinavian, Nordic landscapes. He also discusses other work...