Published: Winter & Spring 1970; 88 pages
Publisher: Film Culture Non-Profit Corporation. Editor-in-Chief: Jonas Mekas. Assistant Editor: P. Adams Sitney. Business Manager: David C. Stone
Copyright 1970 by Film Culture. Printed in the U.S.A. Distributed by B. De Boer, Nutley, N.J.
Contents
1. Tenth Independent Film Award (Kenneth Anger)
2. Three Notes on “Invocation of My Demon Brother,” by Jonas Mekas, Richard Whitehall and P. Adams Sitney
3. Hollis Frampton Interviewed, by Michael Snow
4. The Cosmic Cinema of Jordan Belson, by Gene Youngblood
5. Blank Deflections: Golden Cinema, by Paul Sharits
6. A Note on “The Count of Days,” a Film by Robert Beavers, by Tom S. Chomont
7. Robert Nelson on Robert Nelson
8. Two Films by Ron Rice, by Fred Camper
9. Yoko Ono on Yoko Ono
10. “The Future Is Not What It Used to Be,” by Stan Vanderbeek
11. Re: Look Computerized Graphics by Stan Vanderbeek
12. A Letter to Lenny Lipton, by Stan Vanderbeek
13. The Synthesis of Artificial Movements in Motion Picture Projection, by Alexander Alexieff
14. Filmography of Alexeiff
15. The Social Gospel of St. Jean-Luc Godard, by Dan Isaac
16. Anna Karina, by David Ehrenstein
17. 2001, by Max Kozloff
18. Some Recent Bergman, by Kirk Bond
19. An Interview about Georges Melies, by Maxine Haleff
20. The Art Film in India. Report on Mrinal Sen, by Forrest Williams
21. Thunder Over Mexico (poster, text)
22. To Upton Sinclair (poster, text)
23. Thunder Over Mexico, a review by Pare Lorentz (1933)
24. The Art of Moving Photography. A reprint from The Photographic Times, October, 1897
25. Coffee, Brandy and Cigars, by Herman G. Weinberg
Index of Images
Kenneth Anger during the shooting of “Invocation of My Demon Brother,” 1969
Jordan Belson, “Samadhi,” 1967
Stan Vanderbeek‘s “Found Forms,” a multi-projection film performance at Cross Talk Intermedia Festival, Tokyo, February 1969
Robert Nelson and Gunvor Nelson, 1963 (photo by Bill Menken)
Gregory Markopoulos during the shooting of “Der Schachtel,” April 1968
Robert Beavers
Gregory Markopoulos in Robert Beavers’ film “Winged Dialogue”
Scenes (strips) from Barry Spinello’s film “Soundtrack”
Hollis Frampton outside the old Edison Biograph theater, N. Halsted, Chicago, where Dillinger was shot
Mrinal Sen
Georges Méliès
From Méliès
Méliès studio
“Le Voyage de Mr. Bourrichon”
“Le Petit Chaperon Rouge”
“Le Danseuse Microscopique”
“Le Mèlomane”
From Méliès
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