Franc ois Bovier Livres

Film Implosion is the first and only available publication on Swiss Experimental Film history, spanning from the mid-1950's to today. With more than 150 images and 4 important essays it unfold a complex picture interweaved with several histories such as feminism, political documentary and contemporary art. One encounters Jean-Luc Godard, HHK Schoenherr, Gregory G. Markopoulos and Dieter Roth, but also hiden figures like H. J. Sieber or Isa Hesse-Rabinovitch, among many others. The book also focuses on Switzerland as an international hub for avant-garde film with, for instance, a full chapter on P. A. P., the first „international film gallery“ opened in the late 1960s in Munich and Zürich

Minor Cinema is the first study of experimental cinema in Switzerland, addressing the relationships between contemporary art and underground movies, formal and amateur films, expanded cinema and performances and focusing on the role of the art schools and the festivals. The publication includes essays on Robert Beavers and Gregory Markopoulos, Peter Liechti, cinema at the Kunsthalle Bern during Harald Szeemann’s curatorship, Annette Michelson, Tony Morgan and Kurt Blum.

This volume, published in parallel to Exhibiting the Moving Image, extends the inquiry into the history, theory and practice of exhibiting artists' cinema, video, installation as well as advertising films, by focusing on the domains of performance and of

"Early Video Art and Experimental Films Networks traces the diffuse international networks through which video art and experimental films circulated during the late sixties and early seventies. It explores forgotten exhibitions both in Switzerland and France, the activities of public television channels and alternative art spaces in the US, a production art center dedicated to video in Italy and an Argentinian collective of conceptual artists, aiming to shed new light on the production and diffusion of moving images."--