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Both spatial theory and experimental cinema can be seen as methodological tools for “thinking space” (Crang/Thrift, 2009) and understanding and undermining spatial regimes. The rich corpus of theory that engages with questions of space both as cultural theory and film/media theory has not hitherto been brought together with the corpus of experimental film history and practice. Relating the fields of spatial theory and experimental cinema, as both radical thought and radical practice, will open up new paths for thinking a poetics and politics of space. I aim to map a non-linear trajectory of theory and practice that will lead to contemporary alternative engagements with materiality as a form of contesting spatial regimes (of the digital, the abstract, commodification, etc.). Special emphasis will be placed on the exploration of material film practices in artist-run film labs, which are in themselves unique counter-spaces to the dominant cultures of consumption and waste. (Markus Maicher)