The Garden in the Machine: A Field Guide to Independent Films about Place

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Contents List of Illustrations xiii Introduction xix 1 The Garden in the Machine 1 Larry Gottheim’s Fog Line, Thomas Cole’s The Oxbow, J. J. Murphy’s Sky Blue Water Light Sign, panoramas 2 Voyages of Life 23 Thomas Cole’s The Voyage of Life, Larry Gottheim’s Horizons 3 Avant-Gardens 45 Kenneth Anger’s Eaux d’artifice, Marie Menken’s Glimpse of the Garden, Carolee Schneemann’s Fuses, Stan Brakhage’s The Garden of Earthly Delights, Marjorie Keller’s The Answering Furrow, Anne Charlotte Robertson’s Melon Patches, Or Reasons to Go on Living, Rose Lowder’s ecological cinema 4 Re-envisioning the American West 89 Babette Mangolte’s The Sky on Location, James Benning’s North on Evers, Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers, Ellen Spiro’s Roam Sweet Home 5 From the Sublime to the Vernacular 125 Jan DeBont’s Twister and George Kuchar’s Weather Diaries 6 The City as Motion Picture 147 The New York City Symphony: Rudy Burckhardt’s New York films, Weegee’s Weegee’s New York, Francis Thompson’s N.Y., N.Y., Marie Menken’s Go! Go! Go!, Hilary Harris’s Organism, Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing Panorama, the San Francisco City Film: Frank Stauffacher’s Sausalito and Notes on the Port of St. Francis, Bruce Baillie’s Castro Street, Michael Rudnick’s Panorama, Ernie Gehr’s Eureka and Side/Walk/Shuttle Coda—Deconstruction/Reconstruction: Pat O’Neill’s Water and Power and Eugene Martin’s Invisible Cities 7 The Country in the City 223 Central Park, Jonas Mekas’s Walden, William Greaves’s Symbiopsychotaxiplasm : Take One 8 Rural (and Urban) Hours 247 Hollis Frampton’s Zorns Lemma, Robert Huot’s One Year (1970) and Rolls: 1971, Nathaniel Dorsky’s Hours for Jerome, Peter Hutton’s Landscape (for Manon) and New York Portrait, Part I 9 Expulsion from the Garden 289 Thomas Cole’s The Garden of Eden and Expulsion from the Garden, Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust, Carl Franklin’s One False Move, J. J. Murphy’s Print Generation and Horicon 10 Satan’s National Park 319 Bruce Conner’s Crossroads, Werner Herzog’s Lessons of Darkness, Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah, James Benning’s Deseret and Four Corners 11 Benedictions/New Frontiers 351 Chick Strand’s Kristallnacht, Stan Brakhage’s Commingled Containers, Andrew Noren’s Imaginary Light, Leighton Pierce’s 50 Feet of String, David Gatten’s What the Water Said, nos. 1–3 Appendix 377 Distribution Sources for Films and Videos Notes 387 Index 447 This page intentionally left blank ...