Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1: Art, Experimentation, and the Avant-Garde in East Germany 14
7. 2: Heraklesmaschine: Lutz Dammbeck’s Experimental Cinema and the Expropriation of the Senses 36
8. 3: Lines of Communication: Mail Art and the Connectivity of Experimental Film 74
9. 4: Herz Horn Haut Schrein: Film and the Autoperforating Body of/at Work 104
10. 5: Film Experiments, Design Anthropology, and the Politics of Vision: Yana Milev’s Theory of Practice 134
11. Conclusion: Images of Moving Margins 173
12. Notes 183
13. Bibliography 243
14. Index 263