Susan Brockman: Soft Network 01

AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER / BOOKS WILL SHIP BY MID-OCTOBER Edited with an introduction by Marie WarshContributions by Nicole Miller, Chelsea Spengemann, Sara VanDerBeek, and Marie WarshInterview with Martha Edelheit by Mirra Bank and Chelsea SpengemannAfterword by Mirra Bank  This book is the first to focus on the life and work of Susan Brockman (1937–2001), a prolific filmmaker and artist who was involved in the feminist art movement, the documentary filmmaking community, and the downtown New York art scenes of the 1960s–90s. Through her distinctive approach to framing, editing, and collage, Brockman created interior worlds and tableaux that have a palpable but enigmatic emotional resonance. Brockman neither sought nor received much critical attention during her lifetime, and her work was largely forgotten in the years following her death. In 2021, Soft Network began a three-year journey with her archive, a project that uncovered her striking contributions to the history of experimental