TY - BOOK AU - Rees,A.L. ED - British Film Institute. TI - A history of experimental film and video: from the canonical avant-garde to contemporary British practice SN - 9781844574360 (pbk.) : U1 - 791.4'3611'09 23 PY - 2011/// CY - Basingstoke PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Experimental films KW - History and criticism KW - Video art KW - Performing Arts KW - eflch N1 - Previous ed.: London: BFI, 1999; Published on behalf of the British Film Institute; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - This second edition covers the history of avante-garde film and video, ranging from Cezanne and Dada, via Cocteau, Brakhage and Le Grice, to the new wave of British video artists in the 1990s. The author also reconstitutes the avante-garde film as an independent form of art practice with its own internal logic and aesthetic discourse ER -