Moving Images on the Margins: Experimental Film in Late Socialist East Germany

by Seth Howes

Documents the rich allusiveness and intellectual probity of experimental filmmaking-a form that thrived despite having been officially banned-in East German socialism's final years.

In the German Democratic Republic during the 1970s and 1980s, more than two hundred films and videos, many of them experimental, were made outside government-run institutions despite legal restrictions on independent filmmaking, and despite the state-owned DEFA...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1640140689
• ISBN13: 9781640140684
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"