TABLE OF CONTENTS 

Radical Cinema

01 PUTTING AN END TO EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA? (PREFACE 2019)

02 FOREWORD (PREFACE 2008)

CHAPTER 1 : THE POWER OF CINEMA IS NOT LINKED TO NARRATIVE

03 THE POWER OF CINEMA IS NOT LINKED TO NARRATIVE 

04 INVISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

CHAPTER 2 : THE ART OF CINEMA IS SELF-SUFFICIENT

05 THE ART OF CINEMA AS THE ART OF IMAGE NOISE

06 EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA OR THE INADEQUACY OF PHOTOGRAPHY

07 CAUTION, DANGER! THE RETURN TO REASON OR MAN RAY’S LESSON

CHAPTER 3 : SOME BORDERLINES EXPERIMENTS

08 FROM BALLET MECANIQUE TO STRUCTURAL FILM

09 THIS IS POST-STRUCTURAL CINEMA

10 PETER KUBELKA: FOR A SUBLIME CINEMA

11 THE IMAGE PAR IMAGES OF ROBERT BREER

12 ROBERT BREER’S RE-CREATION

13 A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO LETTRIST CINEMA

14 MAURICE LEMAITRE AND HIS OEUVRE

15 THE ICON: AFRIQUE 50 BY RENÉ VAUTIER

CHAPTER 4 : FILM MOVEMENTS

16 FROM FILP BOOK TO FLICKER

17 GERARD FROMANGER

18 PIERRE ROVERE

19 THE ROUSSEAU MYSTERY

20 ANTONIO DE BERNARDI

21 GERMAINE DULAC AND THE AVANT-GARDE

22 GUY FIHMAN

23 DEAD CALM

24 Artistic gestures and technical devices

CHAPTER 5 / FRENCH EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA : THE 1970s

25 FRENCH EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA: THE RICHNESS OF THE 1970s

26 THE MELBA YEARS

27 ALAIN MONTESSE

On the Films of Christian Lebrat

28 Christian Lebrat by Prosper Hillairet (1983)

29 Vibrations by Christian Lebrat (1991)

30 Christian Lebrat by Elisabeth Jenny (1996)

31 the Liberation of Color by Olivier Michelon (1998)

32 GIVEN... COLOR by VINCENT Deville & EMERIC de Lastens (199)

33 Immaterial Worlds: THE MELBA FILMS by Fred Camper (2000)

34 Color, Frame, Density. Holon by Christian Lebrat by Xavier Baert (2001)

35 From “Post-Structural” Film to Performance” Interview by Raphaël Bassan (2006)

36 Christian Lebrat’s ULTRA CINEMA by Prosper Hillairet (2007)

37 Beyond Cinema: Everywhere and Nowhere by Andrea Monti (2008)

38 A Short Reflection on V1 (Tourbillons) by Angela Joose (2009)

39 In Between Trama and Holon: The Role the Object in the Performance of Film by Kelly Egan (2009)

40 “Let Yourself Enter the Color": the Body and the Self-Portrait in Christian Lebrat's Cinema by Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof  (2009)

41 The Gift of Presence in Christian Lebrat’s V3 (Collapse) by Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof (2010)

42 Self Portrait / Self Withdrawal by Prosper Hillairet (2020)

43 INDEX

44 FILMOGRAPHY 

45 BIBLIOGRAPHY