Cinema by Other Means

by Pavle Levi

Cinema by Other Means explores avant-garde endeavors to practice the cinema by using the materials and the techniques different from those commonly associated with the cinematographic apparatus. Using examples from both the historical and the post-war avant-garde -- Dada, Surrealism, Letterism, "structural-materialist" film, and more -- Pavle Levi reveals a range of peculiar and imaginative ways in which filmmakers, artists, and writers have pondered and created, performed and transformed, the "movies" with or without directly grounding their work in the materials of film. The study considers artists and theorists from all over Europe --- France, Italy, Soviet Union, Germany, Hungary -- but it particularly foregrounds the context of the Yugoslav avant-garde. Cinema by Other Means offers the English-language reader a thorough explication of an assortment of distinctly Yugoslav artistic phenomena, such as the Zenithist cine-writings of the 1920s, the proto-structural Antifilm movement of the early 1960s, and the "ortho-dialectical" film-poetry of the 1970s.

Genres: Film

236 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

Pavle Levi (1973) je teoretičar i istoričar filma. U svom radu bavi se evropskim kinematografijama, avangardnim filmom i psihoanalitičkom teorijiom filma.
Redovni je profesor istorije i teorije filma na Univerzitetu Stanford u Kaliforniji.
Autor je knjiga Raspad Jugoslavije na filmu (Biblioteka XX vek, 2009) i Kino drugim sredstvima (Muzej savremene umetnosti, Beograd/Filmski centar Srbije, 2012). Priredio je zbornik tekstova Annette Michelson Filosofska igračka (Samizdat/B92, 2003).

Fakultet za medije i komunikacije je 2019. godine, u saradnji sa Multimedijalnim institutom iz Zagreba, objavio njegovu knjigu Cimanje slike.