This book analyzes the experimental audiovisual forms that have been present since the second half of the 20th century in Chile. It deals with experimental film and video, including notions such as video-art, expanded cinema, artist video, video-installation, video-creation, experimental documentary or audiovisual essay. These practices are thought by the authors as a whole, not as something preterite, but as an active present inscribed in a historical genealogy.

Side Visions Experimental film and video in Chile (1957-2017), through the critical analysis of audiovisual works, the analysis of transformations produced in the field, conversations with relevant researchers and curators of the national scope, the rescue of documentation and the realization of a Critical chronology, manages to deliver various points of entry to understand the complexity of the local experimental audiovisual phenomenon. In this way, it is a fundamental book for anyone interested in contemporary artistic expressions.