Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's visually accomplished and intellectually rigorous Riddles of the Sphinx is one of the most important avant-garde films to have emerged from Britain during the 1970s.

The second collaboration between Mulvey and Wollen, both of whom are recognised as seminal figures in the field of film theory, Riddles of the Sphinx explores issues of female representation, the place of motherhood within society and the relationship between mother and daughter. Composed of a number of discrete sections, many of which are shot as continuous circular pans, the film takes place in a range of domestic and public spaces, shot in locations which include Malcolm LeGrice's kitchen and Stephen Dwoskin's bedroom.

mQ2* es una editorial especializada en Cine y Video experimental cuyo principal objeto es la promoción y publicación de obras experimentales de artistas audiovisuales que se encuentran al margen de los principales ciruitos de exhibición y difusión.

Las ediciones, coordinadas por reconocidos telóricos, curadores e investigadores, están compuestas por un dvd doble y un libro con un estudio crítico sobre las obras editadas.
 
En su primera publicación mQ2* presenta una selección en dvd de los films experimentales de Narcisa Hirsch y un libro bilingüe que cuenta con el prólogo de Victoria Sayago, un texto crítico de teórico argentino Emilio Bernini y un texto escrito especialmente para la publicación de la propia Narcisa.

This comprehensive new monograph on the influential British artist-filmmaker—renown for his playful and formally ingenious subversion of the everyday world—contains essays by Ian Christie, Martin Herbert, Kathrin Meyer, and Ethan de Seife.

Paul de Nooijer (* 1943) has been making films for 40 years now – an incredible achievement in a field not exactly showered by public interest and funding. His reputation is solidly based on works displaying mostly ‘illusionism’ – the interdependency of film and photography. Since son Menno (*1967) joined in this ‘family business of art’ as a full-fledged partner in 1989, the films became faster and more colourful. But more importantly, the focus of their artistic efforts slightly shifted from just photography and film to a combination with theatre and performance.

This publication offers a selective retrospective of the work of photographer and filmmaker Friedl Kubelka, known as a filmmaker under the name of Friedl vom Gröller. In addition to a selection of her fashion photographs, the book focuses on portraits of her friends and family, as well as series of images and films.

Edited by Cindy Keefer and Jaap Guldemond. This new monograph explores the position of Fischinger's work within the international avant-garde. It examines his animation and painting, his use of music, his experiences in Hollywood, the Lumigraph, visual music theories, and his influence on today's filmmakers, artists and animators. The book also contains previously unpublished documents including texts by Fischinger himself, and unshot animation drawings. Essays compiled and commissioned by editor Keefer include new research and texts by Jean-Michel Bouhours, Jeanpaul Goergen, Ilene Susan Fort, James Tobias, Cindy Keefer, Richard Brown, Joseph Hyde, Paul Hertz, Joerg Jewanski, and more.

Abraham Ravett's recent films are now on a new dvd entitled PIYUT I-V. Contains Notes For A Polish Jew (2012), From Prague to Poland (2010), What My Father Would Have Seen In Poland (2010), Non-Aryan (2009) and Trepches (2009).

This feature-length documentary provides a vivid, eye-opening, and appropriately personal introduction to one of the most important, yet perpetually marginalized, realms of filmmaking: avant-garde cinema.

La obra de Pere Portabella (Figueras, 1927) se sitúa en la encrucijada entre vanguardia,cine y política. Próximo a la sensibilidad surrealista y al conceptualismo (productor de Viridiana de Luis Buñuel en 1962, entre sus colaboradores se cuentan Miró, Brossa y Carles Santos) firma desde finales de los sesenta una de las filmografías más singulares del cine español, alternada con su actividad política como parlamentario y senador. En sus películas, Portabella recurre a estrategias de extrañamiento y dislocación formal tanto para evadir la censura como para potenciar el alcance expresivo las obras, dando lugar a fascinantes simbolizaciones.

What does it mean for film and video to be experimental? In this collection of essays framed by the concept “ex-”—meaning from, outside, and no longer—Akira Mizuta Lippit explores the aesthetic, technical, and theoretical reverberations of avant-garde film and video. Ex-Cinema is a sustained reflection on the ways in which experimental media artists move outside the conventions of mainstream cinema and initiate a dialogue on the meaning of cinema itself.