This live presentation, the first of a series, number 2 and video versions were to follow, outlines rather than reports, material factors which affect many film-makers working independently of commercial film-making, at this point in time, Spring 1978. It is not only about the artefacts that have been produced – these are simply the residue of a range of activities – the presentation is more to do with the conditions that have been involved in giving them the form they adopt. So it is not concerned with examining their peculiarities, their style, their minimalism, the formalism, their whatever, or any of those things which could be used to describe their uniqueness or originality or any description which would seek to separate them, to distinguish them, to express an essential difference between them and another person’s work. The emphasis will be rather the opposite. To examine these various activities and the relationship they have to the formulative process of arriving at a completed artifact, as a means of establishing points of similarity in methods of production, connections with other people and the way they are working at present, or the way they have worked in the past.(Leggett 1978)

Reference: Experimental Film and Video, Hatfield (2006) submitted chapter PDF

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