Visual Essays: Origins of Film

These six essays on film/image history reconstruct cinema history by 're-imagining' its origins, and its poetries, and use historical films themselves (as 'text') to provide the meanings of their creations. Together, these film essays comprise a critical/structural investigation of silent cinema ending with Segei Eisenstein's works (for Stalin) - from Lumiere and Melies through surrealism and horrors, to montage and propaganda, we 're-invent' epochs in cinema that became its language and culture

Visual Alchemy : An Exhibition of Holographic Art by Al Razutis

Razutis links Medieval Alchemy and visual art in his definition of the Alchemical Theatre

David Rimmer Film

Referring to structuralism and minimalism, Razutis analyses Rimmer's films, stressing their reflexive relationship to cinema. Pollock demonstrates how Rimmer confronts film's illusions of time and space. Includes a list of films, a glossary, and biographical notes. 9 bibl. ref

Retrospective 4 : Documents of Artist-Run Centres in Canada, 1979-80

ANNPAC'S 1979-1980 profile of 33 Canadian artist-run centres and their programmes includes photographic documentation of selected exhibitions/events. Razutis, Oppenheimer and Manos contribute texts examining the precarious position of the cine-arts, the New York artist's residence "Westbeth" and the pretentious use of language in art magazines respectively

Vancouver : Art and Artists, 1931-1983

Ranging from the personal to the historical and analytic, 23 articles on art, photography, film, video, performance, architecture, and design outline the history of artistic activity and art institutions in Vancouver from 1931 to 1983. Includes a chronology of artistic and political events. Biographical notes. Circa 155 bibl. ref

Videoscape : An Exhibition of Video Art

Dunn describes the conceptual, performance, synaesthetic and experiential elements of video while Gale highlights the differences between television and video, traditional art forms and video and various centres for video production within Canada. Kennedy defines cybernetic, synaesthetic and synergistic aspects of video. Brief biographical notes on over 60 participating artists. Statements by some of the artists. 77 bibl. ref

October Show

The authors discuss the specificity of Vancouver as a context for artists and critics. The roles of the Vancouver Art Gallery and the October Show are analysed. Includes notes on video works, curator's and artists' statements