1. Routines of emancipation : Jonas Mekas and alternative cinema in the ideology and politics of the sixties -- 2. Identity and/as moving image -- 3. The redemption of the city -- 4. The resurgence of history and the avant-garde essay film -- 5. The last of the last machine? -- 6. The western edge : oil of LA and the machined image -- 7. Springing tired chains : African American experimental film and video -- 8. Bodies, language, and the impeachment of vision : the avant-garde at fifty -- 9. "I just pass my hands over the surface of things" : on the off the screen, circa 2003 -- App. Lines of sight (a travelogue).