FIGURES OF ABSENCE. THE FILMS OF DORE O.
WOMEN'S EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA

by Masha MATZKE
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Aiming at a long-overdue reappraisal of Dore O.’s avant-garde film practice, this publication honors the work and legacy of Dore O., one of Germany’s most pioneering experimental filmmakers.

In the 1960s, the painter Dore O. became one of the first and few women in Germany to turn to experimental film in such a consistent and self-determined way. She was actively involved in exploring new forms of cinema while developing her own “signature, her own tone, her own film method” (Harun Farocki). Radically following her own path, she laid the groundwork for a later generation of notably female artists by cultivating personal filmmaking in a strong intersection with medium-specific experimentation while defying highly politicized currents and prevailing theories, both structural and feminist.

Figures of Absence exposes the formal rigor and inventiveness as well as the cultural connotations and historical ramifications of a cinematic vision that has been relegated to the purely personal, diaristic, and even nonintellectual realms. Ultimately, the authors’ revisionist accounts of Dore O.’s films spark a debate on still underrepresented areas of women’s experimental cinema, its dismissive reception across international borders, its legacy, and the history and causes of its marginalization.

With previously unpublished archival material and rare interviews with Dore O., extensive image material, as well as new contributions from international scholars and experts on women’s experimental cinema from Europe and North America, including Albert Alcoz, Ute Aurand, Robin Blaetz, Christine Noll Brinckmann, Stephen Broomer, Vera Dika, Marie-Hélène Gutberlet, Mike Hoolboom, Sarah Keller, Anthony Moore, Lucy Reynolds, Tony Reif and Maureen Turim, among others.


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author Masha MATZKE
publisher STRZELECKI BOOKS
contributors Albert ALCOZ
Ute AURAND
Robin BLAETZ
Stephen BROOMER
Vera DIKA
Marie-Hélène GUTBERLET
Mike HOOLBOOM
Christian HÜLS
Sarah KELLER
Dietrich KUHLBRODT
Martin LANGBEIN
Anthony MOORE
Christine NOLL BRINCKMANN
Tony REIF
Lucy REYNOLDS
Maureen TURIM
city and year of publication Köln, 2023
binding Paperback
pages 248
language English
ISBN 978-3-910298-06-4