- Title
- Filming for the Future
- Subtitle
- The Work of Louis van Gasteren
- Author
- Patricia Pisters
- Price
- € 54,95 excl. VAT
- ISBN
- 9789462982383
- Format
- Paperback
- Number of pages
- 196
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 30 - 11 - 2015
- Dimensions
- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Series
- Framing Film
- Partner
- Category
- Film Studies
- Discipline
- Film, Media, and Communication
Introduction: Encountering a Prescient Filmmaker
Louis van Gasteren 'an ebullient director bursting with ideas'
Selecting from a vast non-linear spectrum
THE OPERATION - BROWN GOLD - ACROSS THE SAHARA
Chapter 1: Land, House, and City
Housing and Architecture: Constructing and Rebuilding a Post-War Country
ALL BIRDS HAVE NESTS - A NEW VILLAGE ON NEW LAND - BACK TO NAGELE
The House: History, Memory and Meaning
THE HOUSE
Dwelling in the City Roots and Resistance
ROOTS OF THE CITY (public art work)
Chapter 2: Water, Transport, and Technology
Water is Our Element: The Sea as Friend and Enemy
THE STRANDING - MAYDAY
Dry Feet Below Sea-Level: An Integral View on Water
AOD (public monument) - A MATTER OF LEVEL - NEELTJE JANS (land art project)
Technologies of Transportation: Roads, Phones and Globe-Conscious
RAILPLAN 68 - GLOBE-CONSCIOUS MATERIAL PAINTINGS (art) - WARFFUM - THERE IS A PHONE CALL FOR YOU
Chapter 3: War and Traumas of the Past
MONTE KLAMOTT (art project)
Mediated Memories of the Second World War
Return of the Repressed: From KZ-Syndrome to PTSD
NOW DO YOU GET IT WHY I AM CRYING?
The Haunting Shadows of Ducker and Dorbeck
A CHAINSAW FOR THE PAST - THE CLOUDY EXISTENCE OF LVG - HAMARTÍA
Sorrows of a Past Never Lived
ROERMOND'S SORROW - THE PRICE OF SURVIVAL
Chapter 4: Young Rebels and Doors of Perception
Generations, Existential Roles, and Circles of Life before Death
HANS LIFE BEFORE DEATH
Stirring Things Up and Psychedelic Escapes
ALL REBELS
Electronic Brains and Audio-Visual Investigation of Perception
BECAUSE MY BIKE STOOD THERE - DO YOU GET IT 3, 4 - OUT OF MY SKULL - SUNNY IMPLO (art)
Chapter 5: Europe, Politics and Multinationals
Sardinia, Evolution of One of the Oldest 'Homes' of Humanity
CORDEBBU, SALUDE E LIBERTADE, THE SARDONIC SMILE
Sicco Mansholt and the Emergence and Evolution of the European Union
CHANGING TACK
Global Capital and Neo-Colonial Wars
REPORT FROM BIAFRA - REPORT FROM KARTHOUM - MULTINATIONALS
Coda: Feedback Loops in Time without Final Cut
Joie de Vivre and Disillusions of Life
NEMA AVIONA ZA ZAGREB
Cutting and Re-Ordering, Temporal Looping and 'Nema'
Filmography of Louis van Gasteren
Art Works of Louis van Gasteren
Illustrations
Bibliography
Index
Reviews and Features
"Finally. An engaged and thoughtful full-on narrative illuminating the work of Holland's preeminent film director, Louis van Gasteren. Patricia Pisters's, Filming For The Future is an unflinching and deft rendering of the six decades of van Gasteren's films; the writer giving blood, flesh and story to a complicated and controversial artist's obsessions and aesthetics. Like her subject's work, Pisters eschews cliche and slippery ideas to cement a well-wrought and hard earned research that throws bright light onto the times and temperament of van Gasteren's work. Filming For The Future, is an essential compliment to understanding van Gasteren's life, films and obsessions" - Michael Martin, author of Extended Remark: Poems from a Moravian Parking Lot
"Unique attempt to interpret the multifaceted en multilayered oeuvre of the Grand Old Man of Dutch documentary in all encompassing treatise. A great achievement!" - Hans Beerekamp is a former film critic and current TV critic for the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad
"Pisters's work is outstanding, well written, academic and yet so accessible, a generous militant documentary-like portrait of an important figure of Dutch cinema that I just discovered. An essential contribution in Film Studies." - Élie Castiel, Editor in Chief of SÉQUENCES - La revue de cinéma
"Unique attempt to interpret the multifaceted en multilayered oeuvre of the Grand Old Man of Dutch documentary in all encompassing treatise. A great achievement!" - Hans Beerekamp is a former film critic and current TV critic for the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad
"Pisters's work is outstanding, well written, academic and yet so accessible, a generous militant documentary-like portrait of an important figure of Dutch cinema that I just discovered. An essential contribution in Film Studies." - Élie Castiel, Editor in Chief of SÉQUENCES - La revue de cinéma
Patricia Pisters
Filming for the Future
The Work of Louis van Gasteren
Louis Van Gasteren was one of the most prolific filmmakers in the history of the Netherlands, with a resume that includes nearly eighty documentaries and two feature films-to say nothing of artworks and books.
Filming for the Future offers an extended exploration of Van Gasteren's work and audio-visual world. Patricia Pisters introduces us to a filmmaker who always had his camera ready and was relentless in filming a wide range of topics and events of national and international importance. Fascinated by technology, deeply engaged with politics, and intensely occupied by the traumatic effects of war, Van Gasteren assembled an unparalleled record of life in twentieth-century Amsterdam and beyond. Filming for the Future will be an invaluable source of documentation and analysis of one of the key filmmakers of our time.
The book is accompanied by 3 DVDs by 7 films by Van Gasteren: A New Village on New Land (1960), The House (1961), A Matter of Level (1990), The Price of Survival (2003), Hans Life before Death (1983), Changing Track (2009) and Nema Aviona za Zagreb (2012).
Filming for the Future offers an extended exploration of Van Gasteren's work and audio-visual world. Patricia Pisters introduces us to a filmmaker who always had his camera ready and was relentless in filming a wide range of topics and events of national and international importance. Fascinated by technology, deeply engaged with politics, and intensely occupied by the traumatic effects of war, Van Gasteren assembled an unparalleled record of life in twentieth-century Amsterdam and beyond. Filming for the Future will be an invaluable source of documentation and analysis of one of the key filmmakers of our time.
The book is accompanied by 3 DVDs by 7 films by Van Gasteren: A New Village on New Land (1960), The House (1961), A Matter of Level (1990), The Price of Survival (2003), Hans Life before Death (1983), Changing Track (2009) and Nema Aviona za Zagreb (2012).
Author
Patricia Pisters
Patricia Pisters is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Previously she has edited Micropolitics of Media Culture. Reading the Rhizomes of Deleuze and Guattari (2001) and Shooting the Family. Transnational Media and Intercultural Values (2005). She is also an editor for Necsus: European Journal of Media Studies .
