Published: 1976; 184 pages
COVER: Marie Menken and Willard Maas. Photo: J.H. Hawkins
Publisher: Film Culture Non-Profit Corporation
Editor-in-Chief: Jonas Mekas. Assistant Editor: P. Adams Sitney
Copyright 1976 by Film Culture. Printed in the U.S.A. by H. Gantt. N.Y.C.
Contents
1. The Idea of Abstraction, by P. Adams Sitney
2. Animal Cinema: Four Frames, by Ken Kelman
3. On Ernie Gehr‘s Film “Still,” by Richard Foreman
4. Works of Ernie Gehr From 1968 to 1972, by Regina Cornwell
5. The Influence of Olivier Messiaen on the Visual Art of Stan Brakhage in “Scenes From Under Childhood,” Part One, by Marie Nesthus
6. Jack Smith‘s “Flaming Creatures“: With the Tweak of an Eyebrow, by David Packman
7. Barry Gerson Interviewed By John Hanhardt
8. Statement — August 25, 1973, by Barry Gerson
9. Filmography of Barry Gerson
10. Willard Maas and Marie Menken: The Last Years, by Roger Jacoby
11. Reconsidered Analysis by Louis Hock of “Remedial Reading Comprehension,” a Film By George Landow
12. On Louis Hock’s Piece on “Remedial Reading Comprehension,” by Fred Camper
13. “The Quiet One.” A Conversation With Helen Levitt
14. Janice Loeb and Bill Levitt, by Bari Lynn Gillard and Victoria Levitt
15. Ernst Lubitsch, by Kirk Bond
16. Where Have You Cone, My Darling Clementine? by William Roth
17. Jay Leyda’s “Kino,” by Steven P. Hill
18. Jay Leyda’s Comments on Steven P. Hill’s Notes
19. Footnotes For “The Influence of Olivier Messiaen”
Index of Images
A still from Serene Velocity (1970), a film by Ernie Gehr
From Still (1971), a film by Ernie Gehr
Barry Gerson
George Landow. Photo: Clare Mejido
Stills from the films of Ernst Lubitsch: The Eyes of the Mummy, Carmen (2), My Wife the Film Star, Rausch, Sumurun (2), Die Bergkatze, Die Flamme (2), Eternal Love
Ernst Lubitsch on location for Eternal Love
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The Legend of Maya Deren
A three volume documentary biography edited by VeVe Amasasa Clark, Millicent Hodson, Catrina Neiman, and Francine Bailey.
A tribute to the extraordinary woman, inspiration of the American Avantgarde Film, anthropologist, writer and thinker.
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Will be available to the readers of Film Culture as part of their 2-year subscription.
A History of the American Avant-Garde Cinema
A circulating film exhibition of seven programs with accompanying catalog now available for scheduling in 1977 and 1978
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