Experimental Cinema

First US edition. Tall 8vo [26x15cm]. 168pp., including 64pp. of illustrations. Publisher’s green cloth with gilt to spine. In dust jacket. Jacket a little creased to edges and scuffed to tail of spine.*** A wide-ranging survey of ‘experimental cinema’, beginning with the European avant-garde in the first part of the twentieth century and continuing to the New American cinema films of Stan Brakhage, Gregory Markopoulos, Ron Rice, Andy Warhol and others in the 1960s. First book by author David Curtis, who ran the influential Arts Lab cinema at Drury Lane until it closed in 1969.