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Reality unbound: The politics of fragmentation in the experimental productions of kinema ikon

ABSTRACT The article analyses the experimental films produced by a semi-professional workshop, kinema ikon, in Arad, Romania between 1970 and 1989. Employing a socially contextualized reading of the film workshop as an informal institution, the author argues that the workshop's members were interested in intermedia art as a means of producing unconventional representations and autonomous aesthetic objects. At the same time, the workshop focused on the incorporation and expansion of the vocabulary of avant-garde film through a strategic fragmentation of vision. Finally, the article advances a reading of kinema ikon's films as socially subversive practices, given that the notion of ideology critique is related not to their actual representational content, but rather to their particular modes of production and forms of visuality.