Congrats Fred! Cannot wait to get a copy of the book. Sounds exciting and will be great to see ur extensive writing about Stan. You always had a great incite into his work. It is also grand that there will be more screening so Stans’ films, many of the elders of American Avant Garde works have sadly been ignored. /stan admitted to me on his death bed that he feared his work would be forgotten once he passed on. I tried my best to reassure him that his work would live on and not die in obscurity.
With the release of the dvd collections, although it has expanded the audience for Brakhage’s films, mot people think that they are the only works he ever created. D > On Dec 29, 2022, at 3:29 PM, Fred Camper <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am pleased to announce the publication of my book, Seeking Brakhage. This > project was proposed to me by Scott Hammen of Eyewash Books in Paris, who did > much of the work on it, and consists of a collection of almost all my writing > on the filmmaker Stan Brakhage, from 1966, when I was 18, to 2021. It is 455 > pages and includes 56 color images, scans of his films which I > selected from the many that I have made over the course of two decades. The > book includes an introduction by P. Adams Sitney, who, I am glad to note, > offers some critiques and different perspectives, and will be available as > print copies (expensive because of the cost of print on demand) and ebooks > ($20) starting January 14, which is the ninetieth anniversary of Brakhage’s > birth. There is also a recording of a Zoom session that begins with my > introduction to Brakhage and to the book and continues with responses from > several film professors at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm1-pG3Dagg > > This publication date will be marked by screenings of Brakhage films in New > York on January 14 and 15, in programs I curated at the Museum of the Moving > Image and Anthology Film Archives. Links to these programs are on the main > page of my Web site, http://www.fredcamper.com/ The first program presents my > idea of some of Brakhage’s most important, and mostly lesser-known, films, > and the second, films of no less importance but only in 8mm and 35mm. > > The curators at both venues asked that I also show my own almost never > screened films, and the same program of my five early 16mm films, made > between ages 19 and 21 and recently restored due to the excellent work of the > Chicago Film Society, will be shown at both locations on January 14 and 16. I > will offer comments at all four screenings. > > The book will make the most sense to those who know and are interested in > Brakhage’s work. If you don’t know his films, they are in my view, and that > of some others, one of the major achievements among all of twentieth century > art. There is a Criterion DVD set, which I worked on. My introductory essay > for that set, which is in the book but can also be read at no charge at > https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/272-by-brakhage-the-act-of-seeing, is > I think my best general introduction to Brakhage. Copies of his films, mostly > of inferior or unwatchably bad quality, can also be found on YouTube. > > My fondest hope for this book as that it encourages more screenings of > Brakhage’s work on film, and I am open to considering curating and appearing > at such events. As for the book, I am hoping that it will be purchased in > either or both formats by university libraries, so if you have connections to > such a library and wish to recommend its purchase, please do so. > > Fred Camper > Chicago > > > -- > Frameworks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org
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