The Story of a Closet Cine-Drama . . . or . . . From Isolation to Immortality [1968]

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Announcement of Publication of Canyon Cinema News, 1962 37
5. An Essay on Censorship 46
6. Report from on the Road, Filming . . . [1964] 52
7. Denunciation of the Ann Arbor Film Festival [1965] 54
8. Letter from the Ann Arbor Film Festival, April 1, 1965 58
9. On His Blindness [1965] 62
10. Conversation with Edith Kramer, July 2001 63
11. Letter from Chapala, Mexico, January 1967 82
12. Letter from San Francisco, February 18, 1967 82
13. Open Letter to Film-makers, June 12, 1967 83
14. Letter [1967] 86
15. Rebuttal to Robt. Nelson’s “Open Letter to Film-makers” [1967] 87
16. Bruce Baillie’s Prejudiced Guide to Film Festivals [1967] 93
17. Review of Sheldon Renan’s An Introduction to the American Underground Film [1967] 94
18. Letter [1967] 95
19. The Brussels Festival [1968] 96
20. The Swedish Proposal for New American Cinema, and Some Miscellaneous Notes [1968] 99
21. Letter from San Francisco, April 1968 101
22. Notes from the Creative Film Society: Pros and Cons of Theatrical Bookings [1968] 102
23. News from the Australian Undependents 106
24. Letter to John Schofill [1968] 107
25. Notes from the Creative Film Society [1968] 108
26. Letter, August 6, 1968, and Emory Menefee’s response 110
27. The Story of a Closet Cine-Drama . . . or . . . From Isolation to Immortality [1968] 112
28. Some Thoughts about the Bellevue Film Festival Two Weeks after Judging It [1968] 115
29. Letter, September 10 [1968] 118
30. Letter, “August, Beginning of September” [1968] 119
31. Letter [1969] 121
32. Fan Letter to Bruce Conner [1969] 122
33. Letter from Oakland, California [1969] 123
34. Exchanges (Letters) [1969] 125
35. Letter [1969] 126
36. Letter [1970] 128
37. Letter from Alabama, January 1970 130
38. I Lost It at the Movies or Electro-Videograph Interface Meets Mr. Natural [1970] 131
39. Letter [1970] 132
40. Canyon Cinema Board of Directors’ Meeting Minutes [May 20, 1970] 132
41. Letter [1970] 136
42. Canyon Cinema Board of Directors’ Meeting Minutes [May 20, 1970] 138
43. Right Back to the Billabong [1970] 140
44. Poem [1970] 141
45. Letter [1970] 142
46. Letter [1972] 144
47. Letter [1972] 144
48. Underground Myths and Cinema Cooperative Realities (Some Concrete Policy Suggestions) [1972] 145
49. Eight Drawings [1972] 149
50. Whatever Became of Canyon Cinema Co-operative? [1972] 157
51. Letter from Bangkok [1972] 161
52. Canyon Cinema, What Next? [1973] 162
53. Conversation with Diane Kitchen, March 2002 165
54. Peter Kubelka at the Cinematheque, October 3, 1974 185
55. Recuperating at His Forest Place in the Mountains of North Alabama, September 1974 187
56. Remarks Following a Screening of The Text of Light at the San Francisco Art Institute on November 18, 1974 191
57. Letter, March 1975 204
58. Waiting for Godard at the Front: The Palestinian Cinema Institution [1975] 205
59. How to Cope with the Question Period [1975] 209
60. Australian Coop News [1975] 210
61. Prayag in 35mm: The Film and Television Institute of India [1975] 212
62. Chick Strand’s Recollections of Canyon Cinema’s Early Beginnings with Added Commentary from Chick Callenbach [1976] 215
63. Letter from Lower Appalachians, Late June 1976 225
64. Letter and Excerpts from a Conversation with Stan Brakhage [On Death and The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes, 1977] 227
65. What Is a Poetry Film? [1977] 230
66. A Bit of Scuttlebutt . . . [1977] 232
67. Three Poems (A Rune for Jerome Hill, Tomfool for President, and A Prelude for Brakhage) [1977] 233
68. Discussion with George Landow [1977] 235
69. Letter, April 22, 1977 237
70. Windowmobile [1977] 238
71. Conversation with Bruce Conner, July 2001 241
72. An Art Liberation Front Dis’course on Avant-Garde Film [1977] 262
73. Hyper Kinetic Stan/dards [1977] 263
74. Hollis Frampton in San Francisco [April 21/29, 1977] 265
75. Body-Centered Film [1977] 271
76. Thundercrack (cartoon) [1977] 272
77. Matinee [1978] 273
78. The Dietrich Dossier (cartoon) [1978] 274
79. ALF Communique [1978] 277
80. Letter to Henry Hills, January 13, 1978 278
81. Letter [1978] 280
82. George Kuchar in Europe (an interview) [1978] 281
83. Aunt Kastune [1978] 288
84. Tony Conrad in San Francisco, February 28, 1978 289
85. Child Labor [1978] 293
86. Letter, February 18, 1978 296
87. Letter, September 22, 1968 297
88. Robert Nelson Interview [1978] 298
89. George Landow at the Cinematheque, May 18, 1978 307
90. Hollis Frampton in San Francisco, part 2 [ST. HOLLIS] 311
91. Yvonne Rainer at the Cinematheque, April 6, 1978 315
92. Violence [1978] 319
93. Some Unseen Lights [1978] 320
94. Sketchbook (November–December 1977) 324
95. To Whom It . . . [1979] 328
96. Survival in the Independent–Non-Commercial–Avant-Garde– Experimental–Personal–Expressionistic Film Market of 1979 329
97. How to Read II [1979] 339
98. 1st Milarepa Gatha [1979] 341
99. Film Syntax [1979] 342
100. The Films of Aline Mayer [1979] 350
101. Letter, December 24, 1979, and New York Cut the Crap [1980 352
102. Film Syntax (Continued) [1980] 366
103. “What’s a Picnic without Potato Salad!” [1980] / 374
104. Letter, May 16, 1980 376
105. Letter, Late June [1980] 377
106. Chick Strand at the Cinematheque, March 6, 1980 378
107. Conversation with Chick Strand [1980] 388
108. Letter, c. 1980 395
109. Letter, September 10, 1980 395
110. Letter, September 18, 1980 397
111. Conversation with Dominic Angerame, August 2002 and May 2006 399
112. Letters to Canyon Cinema Sent during the Film/Video Debate of 1994 (from Tom DeWitt, George Kuchar, Robert Nelson, and Stan Brakhage) 420
113. Letter from Camano Island, October 10, 1994 424
114. Appendix 1. Canyon Cinema Employees, 1969 to the Present 431
115. Appendix 2. Canyon Cinema’s Gross Rentals and Sales, from 1966 until 2006–2007 433
116. Acknowledgments of Permissions 435
117. Index 439