What does it mean for film and video to be experimental? In this collection of essays framed by the concept "ex-" - meaning from, outside, and no longer - Akira Mizuta Lippit explores the aesthetic, technical, and theoretical reverberations of avant-garde film and video. "Ex-Cinema" is a sustained reflection on the ways in which experimental media artists move outside the conventions of mainstream cinema and initiate a dialogue on the meaning of cinema itself.
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments EXC00 Exergue Ex-cinema EXC01 Out of the Blue (ex nihilo) EXC02 Extimacy: Outside Time and Super-realist Cinema EXC03 Cinemnesis: Martin Arnold's Memory Apparatus EXC04 The Rhetoric of Images, of the Unimaginable EXC05 Derrida, Specters, Self-reflection EXC06 (Parenthesis: Video Ergo Sum) EXC07 Digesture: Gestures Without Bodies EXC08 Extract Matthias Muller EXC09 Revisionary Cinema EXC10 xxxxMA