Beefbristol bristol experimental and expanded film. Complete text of the essential video art text, expanded cinema by gene youngblood. Opened in 1911, it was the first cinema in bristol to show talkies. Bristol film found of the wurzels larking about in the city unseen archive of the somerset scrumpy and western band adge cutler and the wurzels, filmed in 1967, has been found. Bristol experimental expanded film beef is a film and sound collective with an analogue heart. Shops have changed hands in park street and the roads are busier now. In the book he argues that a new, expanded cinema is required for a new consciousness. Fascinating history of a new art form with extensive examples and features of key artists. This cinema has long gone as have bristols famous old green buses.
Lesbian feminist cinemas archive and moonforce medias national womens. Artscilab 2001 expanded cinema by gene youngblood introduction by r. Promotion of alternative moving image bristol and chicago. Visual music, expanded cinema, vjing, live cinema, and live audiovisual. Lesbian feminist cinemas archive and moonforce medias national. A history of bristols watershed cinema, 19641998 taylor. Located in the harbourside area of central bristol, watershed cinema and digital.
Bristol s lost cinemas 19091983 show more 199 photos 12,248 views. Speech and dramatic arts, concentration in film university of iowa, 1972. This film includes performance footage from the 2012 national theatre production of antigone, directed by polly findlay, starring christopher eccleston as creon and jodie whittaker in the title role. But, when the 1970s came, kings had fallen on hard times and was reduced to showing pornographic films. Monday 19th march 2001, 1111 gmt the history of bristol cinema whiteladies road picture house by bill sims. The odd noise first caught peoples attention in 1979 and made. Cineworld bristol is located on the hengrove leisure park, just 3 miles south of the city centre. The whiteladies road picture house has been a part of bristol life for over eighty years. How many of these places do you recognise from 1970s bristol. Standing as a monument to what was once the very best in ultramodern cinema design. Bristol street scenes 1970s amateur home movie cine. The audience and the myth of entertainment 156k part two.
Bbc bristol features the history of bristol cinema. Expanded cinema by gene youngblood 1970, the first book to consider video as an art form, was influential in establishing the field of media arts. Bristol post pictured in 1991, this muchmissed local cinema was demolished in 2000. Harvey goldstein centre for multilevel modelling university of bristol.
The recent reexamination of expanded cinema has largely curtailed the experiments that emerged in japan during the 1960s and early 1970s. Cybernetic cinema and computer films 883k part five. Tired cinema and no one monitoring premier seating. Old bristol still looks amazing after all of the years. Portuguese immigration steadily increased with the result that by 1970, seventyeight percent of. The film society movement had expanded rapidly in the postwar period. Bristol film found of the wurzels larking about in the. He describes various types of filmmaking utilizing new technology, including film special effects, computer art, video art, multimedia environments and holography. The street pretty looks much the same today as it did back in the spring of. Cinema listings, film show times, information, and maps for everyman cinema bristol in bristol from, the uks biggest entertainment website.
Bristols cinemas which stood the test of time and those. Vintage home movie footage of bristol around 1973 showing the street scenes, people and cars of the city. The history of bristol cinema the odeon, broadmead, by bill sims. Leeds united movie archive from the 1970s the leeds scottish connections 197374 duration. Upon his retirement, cmm moved to bristol and harvey continued in. This is a 12 screen cineworld near the city centre bristol temple meads station is over 3 miles away but buses 52, 75, 76 and 90 stop near cinema. This book is available in pdf format by individual chapters or as a whole. The mysterious bristol hum, often heard in the area of clifton, has baffled residents for more than 30 years credit. Bristol experimental expanded film beef is a film and. Expanded cinema season at arnolfini gallery, bristol, 110 apr 1976. In the first part we see an open day at bristol bath road open day in 1968, follo.
In elaborating on this legacy export describes how in expanded cinema, the. All the latest breaking news, headlines, analysis and articles on 1970s cinema from the evening standard. An updated and expanded fourth edition, published by wiley, was published at the end of 2010. Includes complete text of the book and 12 pages of color plates featuring selected referenced works. New research on the uses of school league tables pdf, 161kb.
It opened in the 1930s and was run by the chamberlain family. By midcentury, bristol merchants and captains had expanded this coasting trade. The film society movement had expanded rapidly in the postwar. At full stretch, it embraces the most contradictory dimensions of film and video art, from the vividly spectacular to the starkly materialist. Expanded cinema is an elastic name for many sorts of film and projection event.
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