THE UNDERCUT READER

The Undercut Reader is a collection of writing and visual works drawn from Undercut, the only UK magazine dedicated to artists' film and video from 1980 to 1990, combined with newly-commissioned articles by leading critics in the field. Undercut critically explored the aesthetics and politics of film and video practices within the context of visual arts and independent cinema. While artists' film and video has become one of the most popular and compelling practices today, very little published material is available. This anthology thus provides a much-needed context for the debates and practices of film and video in both the independent film sector and the visual arts. The Undercut Reader explores themes of narrative and representation, feminist perspectives, questions of identity, film form, cultural and gay politics, experimental animation, landscape imagination and aesthetics. It includes writing by, and on, Stuart Hood, Michael O'Pray, Sally Potter, Peter Gidal, Malcolm le Grice, Peter Wollen, Laura Mulvey, Peter Kennard, Valie Export, Mona Hatoum, Patrick Keiller, The Straubs, Richard Long, John Hilliard, David Curtis, Christine Delphy, Isaac Julien, Ian Christie, Jacqueline Rose, Susan Hiller, Derek Jarman, Stan Brakhage and Cerith Wyn Evans.

January 2003
224 pages

978-1-903364-47-5 (pbk)

£19.99

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‘Excellent … a vital addition to the literature on the second, and perhaps most creative, wave of artists' film in the UK.’
– Catherine Elwes, University of the Arts London

‘This wide-ranging, ambitious collection reminds us how significant an observer-participant Undercut was. Read back to read on.’
– Gareth Evans, Vertigo

'Rich and stimulating.’
– Lars Gustaf Andersson, Film International