Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Notes on Contributors viii
5. Chapter One. The Themersons and the Polish Avant-Garde: Warsaw – Paris – London 7
6. ‘The inexpressible unearthly beauty of the cinematograph’: The impact of Polish Futurism on the First Polish avant-Garde Films 31
7. Excerpts from the ‘Archives’ of the Polish Avant-Garde 57
8. Chapter Three. The Search for a ‘More Spacious Form’: Experimental Trends in Polish Documentary (1945–1989) 65
9. Chapter Four. Avant-Garde and the Thaw: Experimentation in Polish Cinema of the 1950s and 1960s 83
10. Chapter Five. Avant-Garde Exploits: The Cultural Highs and Lows of Polish Émigré Cinema 93
11. Chapter Six. The Mechanical Imagination – Creativity of Machines: Film Form Workshop 1970–1977 117
12. The 1980s: From Specificity to the New Tradition – Avant-Garde Film and Video art in Poland 137
13. Film Form Workshop Statements 143
14. Chapter Eight. A Rebellion à la polonaise 155
15. Bibliography 163
16. Filmography 175
17. Index of Names 179
18. Introduction 1