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A critical cinema 5 : interviews with independent filmmakers / Scott MacDonald Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 2006.
Call No: 802.25 MACAuthor: MacDonald, Scott Source: USPlace: Berkeley and Los Angeles, CaliforniaPublisher: University of California PressPubDate: 2006PhysDes: 451 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmSubject: INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS ; INDEPENDENT FILMS ; ANGER, KENNETH ; CONRAD, TONY ; DORSKY, NATHANIEL ; HILER, JEROME ; AHWESH, PEGGY ; BERLINER, ALAN ; MOSS, ROBB ; SOLOMAN, PHIL ; BENNING, JAMES ; LEIGHTON PIERCE ; MULLER, MATTHIAS ; LOCKHART, SHARON ; REEVES, JENNIFER TODD ; KANO, SHIHO ; GEHR, ERNIE Summary: "MacDonald engages filmmakers in detailed discussions of their films and of the personal experiences and political and theoretical currents that have shaped their work. The interviews are arranged to express the remarkable diversity of modern independent cinema and the interactive community of filmmakers that has dedicated itself to producing forms of cinema that critique conventional media. "ISBN: 0520245954Contents: Kenneth Anger -- Tony Conrad -- Nathaniel Dorsky (and Jerome Hiler) -- Peggy Ahwesh -- Alan Berliner -- Robb Moss -- Phil Solomon -- James Benning -- J. Leighton Pierce -- Matthias Mu¨ller -- Sharon Lockhart -- Jennifer Todd Reeves -- Shiho Kano -- Ernie Gehr
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The garden in the machine : a field guide to independent films about place / Scott MacDonald Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2001.
Call No: 738(71) MACAuthor: MacDonald, Scott Place: Berkeley, CaliforniaPublisher: University of California PressPubDate: 2001PhysDes: xxvi, 461 p. : ill. (some colour) ; 24cmSubject: INDEPENDENT FILMS ; NATURE IN FILMS ; PLACE IN FILMS ; PLACE IN FILMS. USA ; CITIES IN FILMS ; NEW YORK IN FILMS ; GOTTHEIM, LARRY ; COLE, THOMAS ; MURPHY, J. J. ; ANGER, KENNETH ; MENKEN, MARIE ; SCHNEEMANN, CAROLEE ; BRAKHAGE, STAN ; KELLER, MARJORIE ; ROBERTSON, ANNE CHARLOTTE ; LOWDER, ROSE ; MANGOLTE, BABETTE ; BENNING, JAMES ; STONE, OLIVER ; SPIRO, ELLEN ; DEBONT, JAN ; KUCHAR, GEORGE ; BURCKHARDT, RUDY ; WEEGEE ; THOMPSON, FRANCIS ; MENKEN, MARIE ; HARRIS, HILARY ; LEE, SPIKE ; STAUFFACHER, FRANK ; BAILLIE, BRUCE ; RUDNICK, MICHAEL ; GEHR, ERNIE ; O'NEILL, PAT ; MARTIN, EUGENE ; MEKAS, JONAS ; GREAVES, WILLIAM ; FRAMPTON, HOLLIS ; HUOT, ROBERT ; DORSKY, NATHANIEL ; HUTTON, PETER ; DASH, JULIE ; FRANKLIN, CARL ; CONNER, BRUCE ; HERZOG, WERNER ; LANZMANN, CLAUDE ; STRAND, CHICK ; NOREN, ANDREW ; PIERCE, LEIGHTON ; GATTEN, DAVID Summary: "Explores the evocations of place, and particularly American place, that have become so central to the representational and narrative strategies of alternative and mainstream film and video. Scott MacDonald contextualises his discussion with wide-ranging and deeply informed analysis of the depiction of place in nineteenth and twentieth-century literature, painting and photography. Examining the representation of nature and landscape in particular, and location in general, MacDonald offers new readings of films under consideration as well as an expanded sense of modern film history."Notes: Includes distribution sources for films and videos (in US), notes and indexISBN: 0520227387
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GEHR, ERNIE
Call No: PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILE; PERSONALITY MICROFILM COLLECTIONPhysDes: ClippingsSubject: GEHR, ERNIE
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The melancholy lens : loss and mourning in American avant-garde cinema / Tony Pipolo New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
Call No: 771(73) PIPAuthor: Pipolo, Tony Edition: 2021Place: New YorkPublisher: Oxford University PressPubDate: 2021PhysDes: x, 200 pages : illustrated ; 25 cmSubject: MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (US, Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid, 1943) ; AT LAND (US, Maya Deren, 1944) ; RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME (US, Maya Deren, 1946) ; BRAKHAGE, STAN ; MARKOPOULOS, GREGORY ; GEHR, ERNIE ; DEREN, MAYA ; BEAVERS, ROBERT Summary: The prevalence of loss and mourning, and of charged relationships with parents or parental figures has had a surprising influence on several American avant-garde filmmakers' work . To date, however, little attention has been given to these themes. In The Melancholy Lens, author Tony Pipolo offers a detailed look at the significant role of underlying biographical and psychological factors in specific works by leading avant-garde filmmakers. Covering a range of filmmakers including Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage, Gregory Markopoulos, Robert Beavers, Ken Jacobs, and Ernie Gehr, The Melancholy Lens takes a sensitive approach to understand the motivations of each filmmaker as related to a given work. Pipolo argues, for example, that the work of Deren and Brakhage lends itself to a more aggressive appreciation of psychoanalytic principles.
The Deren films studied-Meshes of the Afternoon, At Land, and Ritual in Transfigured Time-are read as varying responses to the death of her father, with whom she had a strained relationship. Tortured Dust-the final film Brakhage made about his first family-was, by his own account, a work of contention and desperation. The elusiveness of Gregory Markopoulos' The Mysteries cannot conceal its naked obsession with death any more than it can diminish the film's poignancy. Robert Beavers' Sotiros is an especially rich and vivid exposure of a vulnerable chapter in the filmmakers's life. In the final two chapters on Ken Jacobs and Ernie Gehr, Pipolo looks outward for artistic motivation to show how both filmmakers' fascination with the history of film and video manifests as a melancholic view of greater history in their work. In the afterword, the author considers later figures whose work is kindred to the theme of this book, among them Nathaniel Dorsky, Phil Solomon, David Gatten, and Lewis Klahr. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9780197551172Contents: Introduction -- Chapter 1. Father Time: Maya Deren's Meshes of the Afternoon, At Land, and Ritual in Transfigured Time -- Chapter 2. This Common Clay: Stan Brakhage and Tortured Dust -- Chapter 3. A Dance with Death: Gregory Markopoulos and The Mysteries -- Chapter 4. Eros Interrupted: Robert Beavers's The Ground and Sotiros -- Chapter 5. The Tempering Frame: Ernie Gehr's Media Romance -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index
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Visionary film : the American avant-garde / P. Adams Sitney New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.
Call No: 771.1(73) SITAuthor: Sitney, P. Adams Edition: 2d edPlace: New YorkPublisher: Oxford University PressPubDate: 1979PhysDes: xiv, 463 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: AVANT-GARDE FILMS. USA ; SURREALISM AND THE CINEMA ; ANGER, KENNETH ; BEAVERS, ROBERT ; BELSON, JORDAN ; BRAKHAGE, STAN ; BREER, ROBERT ; CROWLEY, ALEISTER ; BRAKHAGE, JANE ; BAILLIE, BRUCE ; BROUGHTON, JAMES ; CLARKE, SHIRLEY ; CONNER, BRUCE ; DEREN, MAYA ; FRAMPTON, HOLLIS ; GEHR, ERNIE ; JACOBS, KEN ; JORDAN, LARRY ; LANDOW, GEORGE ; LYE, LEN ; MACLAINE, CHRISTOPHER ; MARKOPOULOS, GREGORY ; MEKAS, JONAS ; NELSON, ROBERT ; PETERSON, SIDNEY ; RAINER, YVONNE ; SHARITS, PAUL ; SMITH, HARRY ; SMITH, JACK ; SNOW, MICHAEL ; WARHOL, ANDY ; WHITNEY, JAMES ; RICE, RON ; MAAS, WILLARD ; KUBELKA, PETER ; DUCHAMP, MARCEL ; CORNELL, JOSEPH Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0195024850 : $15.95; 0195024869(pbk.)LON: 1228317
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