Canyon Cinema: The Life and Times of an Independent Film Distributor

Contents

Contents Introduction / 1 1 : Formation 37 PORTFOLIO Announcement of Publication of Canyon Cinema News, 1962 / 45 Saul Landau An Essay on Censorship [1964] / 46 Bruce Baillie Report from on the Road, Filming . . . [1964] / 52 Gregory Markopoulos Denunciation of the Ann Arbor Film Festival [1965] / 54 George Manupelli Letter from the Ann Arbor Film Festival, April 1, 1965 / 58 George Manupelli On His Blindness [1965] / 62 2 : Incorporation 63 Conversation with Edith Kramer, July 2001 / 72 PORTFOLIO Bruce Baillie Letter from Chapala, Mexico, January 1967 / 82 Bruce Conner Letter from San Francisco, February 18, 1967 / 82 Robert Nelson Open Letter to Film-makers, June 12, 1967 / 83 Bruce Baillie Letter [1967] / 86 Robert Pike Rebuttal to Robt. Nelson’s “Open Letter to Film-makers” [1967] / 87 Bruce Baillie Bruce Baillie’s Prejudiced Guide to Film Festivals [1967] / 93 Emory Menefee Review of Sheldon Renan’s An Introduction to the American Underground Film [1967] / 94 Will Hindle Letter [1967] / 95 Robert Nelson The Brussels Festival [1968] / 96 Robert Nelson The Swedish Proposal for New American Cinema, and Some Miscellaneous Notes [1968] / 99 Will Hindle Letter from San Francisco, April 1968 / 101 Robert Pike Notes from the Creative Film Society: Pros and Cons of Theatrical Bookings [1968] / 102 News from the Australian Undependents [1968] / 106 Barry Spinello Letter to John Schofill [1968] / 107 Robert Pike Notes from the Creative Film Society [1968] / 108 Bruce Conner Letter, August 6, 1968, and Emory Menefee’s response / 110 Robert Pike The Story of a Closet Cine-Drama . . . or . . . From Isolation to Immortality [1968] / 112 Robert Nelson Some Thoughts about the Bellevue Film Festival Two Weeks after Judging It [1968] / 115 Will Hindle Letter, September 10 [1968] / 118 Bruce Baillie Letter, “August, Beginning of September” [1968] / 119 Will Hindle Letter [1969] / 121 John Lennon Fan Letter to Bruce Conner [1969] / 122 Barry Spinello Letter from Oakland, California [1969] / 123 Bruce Conner and Jonas Mekas Exchanges (Letters) [1969] / 125 Ed Emshwiller Letter [1969] / 130 Stan Brakhage Letter [1970] / 131 Will Hindle Letter from Alabama, January 1970 / 132 Jon Jost I Lost It at the Movies or Electro-Videograph Interface Meets Mr. Natural [1970] / 132 Bruce Baillie Letter [1970] / 136 Canyon Cinema Board of Directors’ Meeting Minutes [May 20, 1970] / 138 Arthur Cantrill Right Back to the Billabong [1970] / 140 Scott Bartlett Poem [1970] / 141 Robert Nelson Letter [1970] / 142 Bruce Conner Letter [1972] / 144 Chick Strand Letter [1972] / 144 Jon Jost Underground Myths and Cinema Cooperative Realities (Some Concrete Policy Suggestions) [1972] / 145 Bruce Conner Eight Drawings [1972] / 149 Don Lloyd Whatever Became of Canyon Cinema Co-operative? [1972] / 157 Peter Hutton Letter from Bangkok [1972] / 161 Ken DeRoux Canyon Cinema, What Next? [1973] / 162 3 : Revitalization 165 Conversation with Diane Kitchen, March 2002 / 171 PORTFOLIO Peter Kubelka at the Cinematheque, October 3, 1974 / 185 Will Hindle Recuperating at His Forest Place in the Mountains of North Alabama, September 1974 / 187 Stan Brakhage Remarks Following a Screening of The Text of Light at the San Francisco Art Institute on November 18, 1974 / 191 Bruce Baillie Letter, March 1975 / 204 Lyle Pearson Waiting for Godard at the Front: The Palestinian Cinema Institution [1975] / 205 James Broughton How to Cope with the Question Period [1975] / 209 Albie Thoms Australian Coop News [1975] / 210 Lyle Pearson Prayag in 35mm: The Film and Television Institute of India [1975] / 212 Diane Kitchen and Gunvor Nelson Chick Strand’s Recollections of Canyon Cinema’s Early Beginnings with Added Commentary from Chick Callenbach [1976] / 215 Will Hindle Letter from Lower Appalachians, Late June 1976 / 225 Willie Varela Letter and Excerpts from a Conversation with Stan Brakhage [On Death and The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes, 1977] / 227 Herman Berlandt What Is a Poetry Film? [1977] / 230 Commodore Sloat A Bit of Scuttlebutt . . . [1977] / 232 James Broughton Three Poems (A Rune for Jerome Hill, Tomfool for President, and A Prelude for Brakhage) [1977] / 233 Steve Ellman Discussion with George Landow [1977] / 235 Commodore Sloat Letter, April 22, 1977 / 237 James Broughton Windowmobile [1977] / 238 4 : Intellectualization 241 Conversation with Bruce Conner, July 2001 / 247 PORTFOLIO Joe Gibbons An Art Liberation Front Dis’course on Avant-Garde Film [1977] / 262 Henry Hills Hyper Kinetic Stan/dards [1977] / 263 Hollis Frampton in San Francisco [April 21/29, 1977] / 265 Barbara Hammer Body-Centered Film [1977] / 271 George Kuchar Thundercrack (cartoon) [1977...