Remembering Stan Brakhage: An E-mail conversation between Steve Anker and Willie Varela
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Steve Anker, a critic, curator who served as artistic director of the San Francisco Cinematheque, discusses about St an Brakhage's work and his contribution to experimental cinema. He states that thinking of Stan's death as the 'end of an era' overstates the importance that he or any single individual can have to the activity sometimes called avant-grade or experimental cinema.
Publication Name: Journal of Film and Video
Subject: Motion pictures
ISSN: 0742-4671
Year: 2005
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We will not go quietly: Some thoughts on the avant-grade, then and now
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Some thoughts and questions about avant-grade or the experimental films in a time of virulent anti-intellectualism, widespread political repression and persecution, misguided social and cultural priorities, are discussed. The purpose of these experimental films within the extremely commercial film culture is discussed.
Publication Name: Journal of Film and Video
Subject: Motion pictures
ISSN: 0742-4671
Year: 2005
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Technostructural expectations
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A number of thoughts on the influence of extraordinary exchange of digital technologies for analog technologies on experimental films are expressed. Also, two methodologies that helped form Direct Theory and that realized some precious insights, are discussed.
Publication Name: Journal of Film and Video
Subject: Motion pictures
ISSN: 0742-4671
Year: 2005
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