Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Abstraction, Surrealism, Futurism: The Cinema of the Historical Avant-Garde -- Hans Richter and Viking Eggeling: The Dream of Universal Language and the Birth of The Absolute Film -- Frames and Windows: Visual Space in Abstract Cinema -- Berlin - Moscow: On the Montage Aesthetic in the City Symphony Films of the 1920s -- Man Ray's Films: From Dada to Surrealism -- On Mário Peixoto's Limite -- Dancing with Light: Choreographies of Gender in the Cinema of Germaine Dulac -- Mayakovsky: Film: Futurism -- Post-War American and European Experiments -- The Interiority of Space: Desire and Maya Deren -- Stan Brakhage's Film Testament: The Four Faust Films -- Light-Play and the Aesthetics of Avant-Garde Film -- Paul Sharits: from Cinematic Movement to Non-directional Motion -- Changes in experimental filmmaking between the 1920s and the 1960s: On Luis Buñuel -- It's a Kind of Magic: World Construction in French Surrealist and Belgian Magical Realist Fiction and Cinema -- Peter Kubelka's Arnulf Rainer -- Danish Avant-Garde Filmmakers of the 1960s: Technology, Cross-aesthetics and Politics -- New Technologies and Media Convergence: The Contemporary Avant-garde Film -- French Experimental Cinema: the Figural and the Formless - Nicolas Rey's Terminus for you (1996) and Pip Chodorov's Charlemagne 2: Piltzer (2002) -- The Stammering Frame: on recent French and Austrian Film Experiments -- Inscriptions of Light and The 'Calligraphy of Decay': Volatile Representation in Bill Morrison's Decasia -- From Video Art to Video Performance: The Work of Ulrike Rosenbach -- New Media and Feminist Interventions: Valie Export's Medial Anagrams -- The Paracinema of Anthony McCall and Tony Conrad -- List of Illustrations -- About the Authors -- Index.