Coined in the mid-1960s by Stan Vanderbeek but with its origins in the experiments of early Twentieth Century avant-garde filmmaking, media-technologies and performance art, Expanded Cinema is a film and video practice which activates the live context of watching, transforming cinema's historical and cultural ‘architectures of reception' into sites of cinematic experience that are heterogeneous, performative and non-determined.
Narrative Exploration in Expanded Cinema is an AHRC funded research project established by the late Dr Jackie Hatfield.
Conducted by Duncan White and David Curtis, the project is based at the British Artist's Film and Video Study Collection at Central St Martins, College of Art & Design, London in association with Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design at the University of Dundee, it seeks to explore the various histories of expanded cinema and their impact on the question of narrative, space and time in experimental film and art practices.
Works identified as Expanded Cinema often open up questions surrounding the spectator's construction of time/space relations, activating the spaces of cinema and narrative as well as other contexts of media reception. In doing so it offers an alternative and challenging perspective on filmmaking, visual arts practices and the narratives of social space, everyday life and cultural communication.
