Exhibition Guide
INCITE Journal of Experimental Media #4
2013 – 2014
EXHIBITION GUIDE, described as "brilliant and essential" by Mike Everleth of Underground Film Journal, surveys the breadth of alternative media exhibition practice; from microcinemas past and present, to a history of mobile film exhibition, to artists who use film without projectors and projectors without film; supplemented by an array of technical resources.
Editors: Brett Kashmere and Walter Forsberg
Layout and Design: Jasen Lex
Contributors: 40 Frames, Adam Abrams, Steve Anker, Rebecca Barten, Christina Battle, Scott Miller Berry, Bill Brand, Bill Brown, David Cox, Bill Daniel, Donna de Ville, Clint Enns, Bradley Eros, Kate Ewald, The Flinching Eye Collective, Walter Forsberg, Brian L. Frye, Sandra Gibson, Elena Gorfinkel, Sabine Gruffat, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Josh Guilford, Sarah Halpern, Ed Halter, Adelheid Heftberger, Kier-La Janisse, Michael Johnsen, Sharon Johnson, Chris Kennedy, Richard Kerr, Bryan Konefsky, Christy LeMaster, Alain LeTourneau, Jeanne Liotta, Kate MacKay, Alex MacKenzie, Jesse Malmed, Caroline Martel, Theo Michael, Alice Moscoso, David Nelson, Gordon Nelson, Tara Merenda Nelson, Greg Pierce, John Porter, Melissa Ragona, Luis Recoder, Marcus Rosentrater, Ben Russell, David Sherman, Spectacle, Tess Takahashi, tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE, Jonathan Walley, Audrey Young
Portfolios: The Blinding Light!!, Light Industry, Magic Lanern, Orgone Cinema, Other Cinema, The Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, Spectacle
280 pages, perfect bound
Cover image: Walter Forsberg
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| Table of Contents |
| Brett Kashmere & Walter Forsberg | Introduction |
| Microcinemas |
| Steve Anker | Experimental Media Centers across the USA: A Personal History |
| Ed Halter | Head Space: Notes on the Recent History of a Self-Sustained Exhibition Scene for American Experimental Cinema |
| David Sherman & Rebecca Barten | Small is Beautiful |
| Jeanne Liotta | Firefly Cinema (or Cinema for the People) |
| Sharon Johnson | Recollections of The Standard Movie House |
| tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE | Meanderthals in Motion (Pictures) |
| John Porter | A Brief History of The Funnel Experimental Film Theatre |
| Tara Merenda Nelson | Saul Levine and MassArt Film Society |
| Alex MacKenzie | Microclimate: Vancouver, 1995-2003 |
| David Cox | Building Community through Microcinema: Other Cinema and Me |
| Alain LeTourneau | A Brief History of 40 Frames Exhibition Series |
| John Porter | Martin Heath's CineCycle |
| Michael Johnsen & Greg Pierce in conversation with Adam Abrams |
Pittsburgh's Orgone Cinema: A Deadly Serious Joke |
| David Nelson | minicine?, 1995 to… (An explanation of the minicine? question mark)… |
| Bryan Konefsky | Basement Films |
| Donna de Ville | To Pop-up and Back: A Micro-history of Aurora Picture Show |
| Gordon Nelson | What was Jefferson Presents...? |
| Jesse Malmed | An Anecdotal Collage History of Portland Experimental Media Culture, 1997-2012 |
| Brian L. Frye | On the Origins of the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema |
| Tess Takahashi | Magic Lantern: Interviews with Ben Russell and Josh Guilford |
| Christy LeMaster | An Oral History of The NIGHTINGALE |
| Scott Miller Berry, Chris Kennedy & Kate MacKay |
Early Monthly Segments |
| Kier-La Janisse | Blue Sunshine: The Life and Death of a Microcinema |
| Kate Ewald | Do It Yourself (with Others) |
| Marcus Rosentrater | Contraband Cinema |
| Melissa Ragona | Union Docs: UnDoing Documentary |
| Spectacle | The Telling of the Lore: A First-Person History of Brooklyn's Spectacle |
| Light Industry | Portfolio |
| WEB EXCLUSIVE | |
| Roger Beebe | Afterthoughts on an Era: Flicker Film Festival (Chapel Hill) |
| Mobile Cinemas |
| Bill Daniel | Who is Bozo Texino, Film Touring 2005-2010 |
| Adelheid Heftberger | Soviet Agit-Trains from the Vertov Collection of the Austrian Film Museum |
| Alice Moscoso | La Cyclo-Cinematheque: An Interview with Bill Brown and Sabine Gruffat |
| Audrey Young | Cine Movil Mexico |
| Alice Moscoso | Tunnel Vision: A Film Event Inside the World's Oldest Subway Tunnel |
| Bill Brand | Masstransiscope |
| Theo Michael | Tales from a Balkan VJ |
| The Flinching Eye Collective | Atemporal Radio Tour: A Traveling Sound Performance |
| Expanded Cinemas |
| Bradley Eros | Hystery is Made at Night: Mercurial Cinema is Written on Ether (Evidence of RBMC) |
| Jonathan Walley | Re-creating Expanded Cinema |
| Elena Gorfinkel | Film After Cinema: Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder's Light Spill and Museological Materialism |
| Sabrina Gschwandtner | Film Quilts |
| Richard Kerr | Motion Picture Weavings |
| Walter Forsberg & Clint Enns | Digital Preservation |
| Walter Forsberg | God Must Have Painted Those Pictures: Illuminating Auroratone's Lost History |
| Projecting |
| Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder | Notes on "Perfect Projection" |
| Caroline Martel | The Film Prayer |
| Sarah Halpern | Shoes, Cars, Filth and Film Projection: The Language of Anxiety Dreams |
| 40 Frames | Projector Image Size Calculation |
| Recommended Portable 16mm Projectors | |
| Screen Luminance Guide | |
| Print Handling / Print Inspection Report Form | |
| Christina Battle | DIY Screening Checklist |
