## Monographs
Art, Auckland City. _Len Lye : A Personal Mythology : Paintings, Steel-Motion Compositions, Films._ Auckland City Art Gallery, 1980.
Braak, Menno Ter. _De Absolute Film._ W.L. En J. Brusse, 1931.
Buchan, Suzanne. _Pervasive Animation_. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.
Elder, Bruce (R. _Body of Vision : Representations of the Body in Recent Film and Poetry_. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1997.
Elder, Bruce (R. _Harmony + Dissent : Film and Avant-Garde Art Movements in the Early Twentieth Century_. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008.
Feiersinger, Luisa, et al. _Image - Action - Space : Situating the Screen in Visual Practice_. Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2018.
Flavin, Dan, et al. _Dan Flavin, Lights_. Hatje/Cantz, 2012.
Gallery., Hayward, et al. _Film as Film : Formal Experiment in Film, 1910-1975_. Arts Council of Great Britain, 1979.
Garelick, Rhonda K. _Electric Salome : Loie Fuller’s Performance of Modernism_. Princeton University Press, 2007.
Grace, Whitney. _Lotte Reiniger : Pioneer of Film Animation_. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2017.
Grant, John. _Masters of Animation_. Watson-Guptill Publications, 2001.
Greenewalt, Mary Elizabeth. _Nourathar : The Fine Art of Light Color Playing_. Westbrook Publishing Company, 1946.
Huhtamo, Erkki. _[[Illusions in Motion]] : Media Archaeology of the Moving Panorama and Related Spectacles_. MIT Press, 2023.
Irish Museum of Modern Art (Kilmainham, Dublin, et al. _In Praise of Shadows._ Charta, 2008.
Marin, Louis, and Mette Hjort. _To Destroy Painting_. University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Maur, Karin Von, and John William. Gabriel. _The Sound of Painting : Music in Modern Art_. Prestel, 1999.
Munch, Edvard, et al. _Edvard Munch : The Modern Eye_. Tate Publishing, 2012.
Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.), et al. _Visual Music : Synaesthesia in Art and Music since 1900_. Thames & Hudson, 2005.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), et al. _Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925 : How a Radical Idea Changed Modern Art_. Museum of Modern Art, 2012.
Orgeman, Keely, et al. _Lumia : Thomas Wilfred and the Art of Light_. Yale University Art Gallery, 2017.
Palm Springs Art Museum, Host Institution., et al. _Particles and Waves : Southern California Abstraction and Science 1945-1990_. Palm Springs Art Museum, 2024.
Powell, Anna. _Deleuze, Altered States and Film_. Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
Ravetto-Biagioli, Kriss. _Digital Uncanny_. Oxford University Press, 2019.
Russett, Robert., and Cecile. Starr. _Experimental Animation : An Illustrated Anthology_. Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1976.
Stein, Donna., and Corcoran Gallery Of. _Thomas Wilfred : Lumia, a Retrospective Exhibition_. [Corcoran Gallery of Art], 1971.
Taberham, Paul. _Lessons in Perception : The Avant-Garde Filmmaker as Practical Psychologist_. Berghahn, 2018.
Wees, William C. _Light Moving in Time : Studies in the Visual Aesthetics of Avant-Garde Film_. University of California Press, 1992.
Wilfred, Thomas. _Projected Scenery : A Technical Manual_. Drama Book Shop, 1965.
Wyn Evans, Cerith, et al. _Cerith Wyn Evans_. Phaidon Press, 2023.
Zielinski, Siegfried. _Deep Time of the Media : Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means_. MIT Press, 2006.
Zielinski, Siegfried. _Variations on Media Thinking_. 1st ed. Vol. 52. Posthumanities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019.
[[Light-Play and the Aesthetics of Avant-Garde Film]]
Wees uses the term light-play in a similar way, analyzes Erigina's: **“Omnia, quae sunt, lumina sunt”** touching on Moholy-Nagy, Wilfred, and an extended section on Jim Davis.
# Extended Cinema Bibliography
- Works on Avant-Garde Film Art in Cinema: A Symposium on the Avantgarde Film. Edited by Frank Stauffacher. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 1947. Reprint. New York: Arno, 1968.
- The Avant-Garde Film: A Reader of Theory and Criticism. Edited by P. Adams Sitney. New York: New York University Press, 1978.
- Barrett, Gerald, and Wendy Brabner. Stan Brakhage: A Guide to References and Resources. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1983.
- Brakhage, Stan. Brakhage Scrapbook. Edited by Robert A. Haller. New Palz, N.Y.: Documentext, 1982.
- ———. Film at Wit's End: Eight Avant-Garde Filmmakers. Kingston, N.Y.: Documentext-McPherson, 1989.
- ———. Metaphors on Vision. New York: Film Culture, 1963.
- Clark, Dan. Brakhage. New York: Film-Makers' Cinematheque, Monograph Series No. 2, 1966.
- Cornwell, Regina. Snow Seen. Toronto: PMA Books, 1980.
- Curtis, David. Experimental Film: A Fifty-Year Evolution. New York: Dell, 1971.
- Dwoskin, Stephen. Film Is: The International Free Cinema. Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook, 1975.
- Ehrenstein, David. Film: The Front Line, 1984. Denver: Arden, 1984.
- Experiment in the Film. Edited by Roger Manvell. London: Grey Walls Press, 1949.
- Film as Film: Formal Experiment in Film, 1910-1975. London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1979.
- Form and Structure in Recent Film. Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 1972.
- A History of the American Avant-Garde Cinema. New York: American Federation of the Arts, 1976.
- James, David E. Allegories of Cinema: American Film in the Sixties. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989.
- Keller, Marjorie. The Untutored Eye: Childhood in the Films of Cocteau, Cornell, and Brakhage. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1986.
- Lawder, Standish D. The Cubist Cinema. New York: New York University Press, 1975.
- Le Grice, Malcolm. Abstract Film and Beyond. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1977.
- Macdonald, Scott. A Critical Cinema: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1988.
- Mekas, Jonas. Movie Journal: The Rise of the New American Cinema, 1959-71. New York: Collier, 1972.
- Mellencamp, Patricia. Indiscretions: Avant-Garde Film, Video, and Feminism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.
- New Forms in Film. Edited by Annette Michelson. Montreux Exhibition Catalogue, 1974.
- Noguez, Dominique. Éloge du cinéma expérimental. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1979.
- Peterson, Sidney. The Dark of the Screen. New York: Anthology Film Archives and New York University Press, 1980.
- Polan, Dana B. The Political Language of Film and the Avant-Garde. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1985.
- Renan, Sheldon. An Introduction to the American Underground Film. New York: Dutton, 1967.
- Rosenbaum, Jonathan. Film: The Front Line—1983. Denver: Arden, 1983.
- Rowe, Carel. The Baudelairean Cinema: A Trend within the American Avant-Garde. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1982.
- Structural Film Anthology. Edited by Peter Gidal. London: BFI, 1976.
- Thoms, Albie. Polemics for a New Cinema. Sydney: Wild & Woolley, 1978.
- Tyler, Parker. Underground Film: A Critical History. New York: Grove, 1969.
- Vertov, Dziga. Kino-Eye: The Writings of Dziga Vertov. Translated by Kevin O'Brien. Edited by Annette Michelson. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1984.
- Vogel, Amos. Film as a Subversive Art. New York: Random House, 1974.