Over her more than four-decade career, New York-based filmmaker, performer, and writer Amy Greenfield has achieved widespread critical acclaim for her genre-bending films which cross the boundaries of experimental film, video art, and multimedia performance—from her feature film, Antigone/Rites Of Passion, to her major new live multimedia work, Spirit in the Flesh. Exploring the dynamism of movement and the resilience of the human spirit, Greenfield creates a new visual and kinetic language of cinema.
An innovative exploration of an artist whom Cineaste called “the most important practitioner of experimental film-dance,” Flesh Into Light covers Greenfield’s entire career and draws attention to the more than thirty films, holographic sculptures, and video installations of this important American artist.
Table of Contents
Flesh Into Light: The Films of Amy Greenfield
Robert A. Haller
Preface
1. Beginnings
2. Planning and Discovery
3. Holograms and late 1970s
4. 1980s and Antigone
5. 1990s: Performance and the Cycles of Light
6. 2000s: The Body Songs
7. 8 Perspectives
Appendix 1: Filmography of Amy Greenfield through 2009
Appendix 2: Fragments: Mysterious Beginnings and Fragments: Mat/Glass and One O One
Appendix 3: Raw-Edged Women and MUSEicof the Body
Appendix 4: Six notions and a question about my work in video
Appendix 5: The Clock Tower
Appendix 6: Bibliography
Appendix 7: Greenfield on Greenfield
Robert A. Haller
Preface
1. Beginnings
2. Planning and Discovery
3. Holograms and late 1970s
4. 1980s and Antigone
5. 1990s: Performance and the Cycles of Light
6. 2000s: The Body Songs
7. 8 Perspectives
Appendix 1: Filmography of Amy Greenfield through 2009
Appendix 2: Fragments: Mysterious Beginnings and Fragments: Mat/Glass and One O One
Appendix 3: Raw-Edged Women and MUSEicof the Body
Appendix 4: Six notions and a question about my work in video
Appendix 5: The Clock Tower
Appendix 6: Bibliography
Appendix 7: Greenfield on Greenfield