The Cinematic Experience – 2008

Edited by Arie Altena & Boris Debackere
Published by Sonic Acts Press
Design by Femke Herregraven
Book, 192 pp., English text, illustrated

On the occasion of the twelfth Sonic Acts festival, Boris Debackere and Arie Altena edited a multi-faceted book with nine essays and ten interviews dealing with various aspects of the cinematic experience.
The book focuses as much on theories of the cinematic experience, as it does on the practice of artists working in the fields of cinema, contemporary media art and sound. It shows how artists develop their work and theories on the cinematic experience, using different technologies and materials, and offers a many-sided theoretical journey into the history, present and future of the magic we call cinema.

Essays : 
Joost Rekveld on the mechanization of the ‘ magical sign ’; Arjen Mulder on the reality effect of film and the extramedial; Gerard Holthuis on the art of chatter and the power of images; Jan Schacher and Randy Jones on Live Cinema; Lucrezia Cippitelli on the history of cinematic experiments in visual art; Gregory Kurcewicz on Structural Film; Rob Vanderbeeken on immersion; Thomas Zummer on cinema and memory.
Interviews with : 
Ernie Gehr, Kurt Hentschläger, Stephen O’Malley, Jan Peter E.R. Sonntag, Thomas Köner, Jürgen Reble, Frank Bretschneider, Simon Ruschmeyer, Tomas Rawlings & Ana Kronschnabl, and Lev Manovich.

The first print of the Cinematic Experience is sold out. A Print On Demand version (POD) is now available, and can be ordered online at amazon.com and Createspace.com