I was at that conference in the 80s how do I get a copy of that report. Thanks
D On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 8:39 AM Green, Ron Green <[email protected]> wrote: > > https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/staten-island-ny/robert-haller-10175717 > > We are very sad to hear about Haller. He has been one of the mainstays of > avant-garde film for five decades. My wife, Louisa, and I have worked with > him off and on since the early '70s. The last time we saw him was in > October of 2019, at the memorial service for Gerry O'Grady at Anthology. > > Haller was one of the two supporting pillars of the earliest days of > Pittsburgh's avant-garde film culture--Sally Dixon was the other. Together > they invented, developed, and held together, through thick and thin, the > Carnegie film program and Pittsburgh Filmmakers. There were other good > people in the invention of PF, but Haller was essential, and probably the > most travelled. He never missed any of the film conferences at Buffalo, and > he was assiduous in documenting them, as well as many other such events, > photographically. He is the unofficial photographer of record for that > period of the takeoff of the avant-garde film movement, a period when > image-device culture was not a "thing," and images of that culture were > rare. Haller's many photographs of film people such as Brakhage, Baillie, > Schneeman, Snow, Ken and Flo Jacobs, Emschwiller, Sharits, Frampton, Gehr, > Kubelka, Blue, Paik, Shigeko Kubota, the Vasulkas, the Heins, and many > other artists, as well as the many institutional leaders of the movement, > are surely the major visual record of avant-garde film culture in the two > or three decades before cell-phone photography. We have lost so many people > from Haller's generation recently, and Haller and Sally are among the most > painful for us. > > Haller was one of the most unassuming leaders I've known. In spite of his > modesty, he was always a leader. When he hosted one of the most important > planning meetings of the media-arts-center movement in the '80s, he made > sure that there was a verbatim record of the entire two-day discussion > among about 20 of the leaders and funders of the major media centers in the > country--every single word is on the printed record. (A hard copy of that > conference record is one of many such things in a collection I deposited a > couple of years ago at Anthology--thank you, Anthology!) > > We miss, appreciate, and celebrate his life. > > Ron and Louisa Green > > > > <https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/staten-island-ny/robert-haller-10175717> > Robert HALLER Obituary - Staten Island, NY > <https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/staten-island-ny/robert-haller-10175717> > Anthology lost one of its most important, devoted, and well-loved staff > members yesterday, with the passing of Robert Haller (1942-2021). Robert > was a fixture at Anthology since 1980, when he first arrived in New York > for a four-year stint as Anthology’s Executive Director. > www.dignitymemorial.com > > -- > Frameworks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org >
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