Today, Film Studies For Free brings you another video gem from the Tate Channel in which the highly distinguished Canadian artist Michael Snow, one of the most influential experimental filmmakers (including of such masterworks as Wavelength [1967)], La Région Centrale [1971], and *Corpus Callosum [2002]) discusses his work. Snow, who will reach the grand old age of 80 this December, gave this illustrated talk at the Tate Modern in London on October 26, 2001, on the occasion of a major retrospective of his work that year at the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol. The talk, a very detailed and insightful revisiting of the entirety of his work to that point, lasts just under two hours.

Here also, as is FSFF's wont, are links to further wonderful, freely accessible, online, scholarly Michael Snow resources. Below the list are two other embedded videos: the first, a ten minute overview of Snow's work; the second, a video version of Snow's 1967 experimental film Wavelength (please read the comments on this post for a discussion of the ethics of reproducing this very poor copy of the film):

• The Michael Snow Dossier, Offscreen Journal, November 2002 (Michael Snow: A Brief Introduction by Peter Rist;La Région Centrale by Peter Rist; Wavelength Revisitedby Donato Totaro; Master Lessons With Michael Snowby Louis Goyette;Weathering the Creative Storm: An Interview With Michael Snow by Donato Totaro and André Habib;Transcending the Fragmentation of Experience: The acousmêtre on the air in the films of Michael Snow by Randolph Jordan)

• Cleo Cacoulides, '"Too Busy Making Work":Michael Snow', Bright Lights Film Journal, Issue 44, 2004

• Bruce Elder, 'On Michael Snow', Ciné-Tracts 9; Vol.3, No. 1, (Winter, 1980) scroll down in pdf

• Alex Farquharson, 'Michael Snow', Frieze, Issue 64, January-February 2002

• Adèle Flannery and Maia Lussier-Seguin, 'Snow at Concordia: An Interview with Michael Snow', Offcreen Journal, Vol. 13, Issue 3, March 2009

• Maximilian Le Cain, 'Snow Drift: The 2007 Lucca Film Festival 28 September – 6 October 2007', Senses of Cinema, Issue 46, 2008

• Brett Kashmere, 'Underground Film, Into the Light: Two Sides of the Projected Image in American Art, 1945-1975', Synoptique 8, March 2005

• Tila Landon Kellman, Figuring redemption: resighting my self in the art of Michael Snow - (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2002 -Google Books)

• Jane Simon, 'Reading in the Dark', M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture, January 12, 2004

• Michael Snow, with Louise Dompierre, The collected writings of Michael Snow (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University press, 1994 - Google Books)


• Michael Snow and Bruce Elder, 'In conversation', Ciné-Tracts 5, No. 1, (17), Summer/Fall, 1982) scroll down in pdf


• Michael Snow and Jesse Stewart, 'In Conversation: Toronto, November 2005', Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation, Vol 3, No 1 (2007)
  

Today, Film Studies For Free brings you a video recording of a two hour long talk by one of the most original and important of the major film and media theorists, Raymond Bellour, Director of Research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Paris, and one of Europe's foremost theorists of film, video and new media.

Bellour's publications include L'Analyse du film, his now classic close readings of Hollywood films first published in 1979, several more recent collections, especially Le Cinéma americain and Le Western, as well as works on literature (especially on the Brontës, Dumas and Michaux). Since the early eighties, Bellour's work has concentrated on new media and on the relations between words and images.

Bellour's talk was recorded on May 23, 2002, a record of his contribution to the 'Moving Images' Programme, a collaboration between Tate Modern and Research at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design bringing to London major figures working in or on film and video to explore contemporary issues around these media. It is now freely available to view online as one of the many wonderful Tate Channel offerings about which FSFF waxed lyrical just the other day.

Below are links to a few other Bellour related resources -either articles by him, or ones by other scholars which discuss or employ his film theoretical insights.

• Raymond Bellour, 'The Film We Accompany', Rouge, 3, 2004 (on Ritwal Ghatak's 1960 The Cloud-Capped Star)
  

• Raymond Bellour, 'The Book, back and forth', excerpts, chrismarker.org, 2008
  

• Thomas Elsaesser, 'Around Painting and the "End of Cinema"', Theory Kit, 2007

• Rosalind Galt, 'The Obviousness of Cinema', World Picture, 2, Autumn 2008

• Judith Mayne, 'Picturing Spectatorship', in James Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz, Understanding Narrative (Ohio State University Press, 1994)
  

• Christian Metz, 'Photography and Fetish', October, Vol. 34. (Autumn, 1985), pp. 81-90

• Daniel Morgan, ‘No Trickery with Montage’: On Reading a Sequence in Godard’s Pierrot le fou', Film Studies, Issue 5, Winter 2004

• Laura Rascaroli, 'Like a Dream: A Critical History of the Oneiric Metaphor in Film Theory', Kinema, 2008
  

• Nick Redfern, “Leading them Down the Garden Path:” Another Look at Hitchcock’s Psycho', EnterText 1.3

• Julian Savage, 'The Lost Cult of Wake in Fright', Intensities Four, December 2007

• Herman Wasserman, 'Review of Raymond Bellour, The Analysis of Film [Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2000]', Scope, February 2002

• Tony Williams, 'Power and Paranoia: 1940s Hollywood [review of Dana Polan, Power and Paranoia: History, Narrative and The American Cinema 1940-1950. New York: Columbia University Press 1986]', from Jump Cut, no. 35, April 1990, pp. 73-77

Today, Film Studies For Free brings you more choice links to valuable resources on the topics of 'expanded cinema' and video art. Not only the wonderful Tate Video embedded above but also, courtesy of a great scholarly website -- REWIND - Artists' Film & Video in the 70s and 80s -- the following essays:

• 'Greyscale Video and the Shift to Colour' by Prof. Sean Cubitt, University of Melbourne, Australia. View a pdf of the Essay in 'Art Journal', Fall 2006 edition here. A video essay version of the paper is viewable here.
  
• 'Projection: Vanishing and Becoming' by Prof. Sean Cubitt, University of Melbourne, Australia. In Grau, Oliver, Eds. MediaArtHistories, pages pp. 407-422. MIT Press. View a pdf of the Essay here.
• 'The Trouble with Video Art' by Kevin Atherton, Head of Media, National College of Art & Design, Dublin. View a pdf of the Essay here.
• 'Expanded Cinema - And the "Cinema of Attractions"' by Dr. Jackie Hatfield. (Published in Filmwaves, Issue 27/1/2005). View a pdf of the Essay here.
• 'The Subject in Expanded Cinema' by Dr. Jackie Hatfield. (Published in Filmwaves, Issue 24/2/2004). View a pdf of the Essay here.

An addendum: if you live in London, or care about cinema in that city, Film Studies For Free urges you, please, to visit the website of the Picture Palace Campaign for the regeneration of the former art deco cinema, now bingo hall, soon to be (possibly) evangelical church, at 25 Church Road, SE19 (Crystal Palace). It was originally built in 1928 as a cinema and the beautiful interior was designed by the renowned cinema architect George Coles (see also here).

Film Studies For Free now has a listing of links to free podcasts (and video podcasts/webcasts) of film-scholarly note. It is currently headed by a link to the podcast page of the website feminism 3.0 (also accessible via the blog New Research in Feminist Media Art/Theory/History) run by my friend Vicki Callahan of the University of Wisconsin (Milwaukee). The podcast currently posted is of an interview with the media artist Cecelia Condit in which she discusses her work. Some of Condit's video work is posted to her website. A nice Afterimage article about Condit's work, by Kelly Mink (Jan-Feb., 1998), is available HERE.

I've also posted a link to the hugely rich Tate Galleries listing of podcasts. Film-scholarly related highlights on this enormous listing include a podcast of the Tate Modern event 25-11-2007 Film Synergies which discussed the practice of Latin-American film co-production with Europe, which became widespread in the 1990s. The event included the screening of the 46-minute documentary Latin America in Co-production (Libia Villazana, UK/Peru 2007), which explores the mechanisms of this practice.

There's a podcast of the Tate Modern event 22-07-2007 Patrick Keiller in which Keiller presents and discusses material from Londres, Bombay (2006), his multi-screen video reconstruction of Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Victoria Terminus) in Mumbai.

There's a podcast of the Tate Modern event 16-06-2007 Surrealism and Film: Study Day, held on the occasion of that gallery's major exhibition 'Dalí & Film', which explored the work of Salvador Dalí in relation to the wider links between surrealism and film.

There's a podcast of the Tate Modern event 24-02-2007 Robert Beavers, about the season dedicated to this American film artist's work.

And there's a whole host of great podcasts on animation (beginning with this one) drawing on the three-day international conference at the Tate Modern 02-03-2007 Pervasive Animation which united speakers from a wide range of research agendas and creative practices, and thus facilitated 'much-needed dialogue centred on the ubiquitous and interdisciplinary nature of animation, its potentially radical future development, and its ethical responsibilities for spatial politics in moving image culture.'

Any suggestions of further links to good film-related podcasts (and video podcasts/webcasts) from FSFF's readers would be most welcome.