The Editor: John Sundholm is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the division for Culture and Communication at Karlstad University, Sweden, and Reader in Cultural Analysis at Åbo Akademi University, Finland.

• Contents: John Sundholm: Avant-Gardes and Modernisms – Malcolm Le Grice: Three Strands of Experimental Cinema: Abstraction, Symbolism and Existentialism – David E. James: «The Movies are a Revolution»: Film and the Counterculture – Henrik Orrje: New Beginnings: Swedish Experimental Film from Past to Present – Paul Arthur: «I Just Pass my Hands Over the Surface of Things»: On and Off the Screen, Circa 2003 – Pip Chodorov: The Paradox of «Film Art» and of Distributing Analog Works in the Digital Age – Steve Anker: Gunvor Nelson and the American Avant-Garde Film – Astrid Söderbergh Widding: The Material World Transformed: Gunvor Nelson’s Videoworks – Anders Pettersson: Interview with Gunvor Nelson.