Chick Callenbach was a wonderful editor, always a pleasure to work with, unpretentiously and engagingly intelligent. He was a crucial contributor to the development of Canyon Cinema, and he built FILM QUARTERLY into one of the premiere publications in the world of cinema studies. He was more widely known for his utopian writing, and ECOTOPIA in particular, but his influence on film history has been crucial.
RIP, dear Chick.
Scott
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Subject: [Frameworks] Fwd: Ernest Callenbach's last words to an America
in decline
From: Idiolect <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, May 07, 2012 11:10 am
To: Experimental Film Film Discussion List
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I received this from a friend. Many frameworkers will mourn his passing. Film Quarterly was one of the best journals under his leaderhship.--For most of those on this list, Ernest "Chick" Callenbach's classic novel, ECOTOPIA needs no introduction. I'd known Callenbach since the 1960s through his magazine, Film Quarterly, and also as an acquantance in the Bay Area, where we ran into each other every so often for many years. I admired him and his work greatly, and have long been convinced that ECOTOPIA will find a second life as a blueprint for thought and action as we heave into increasingly uncertain times.
It was only when Lou Judson sent me this article today that I learned that, sadly, "Chick" had passed away on April 16th. You can read his powerful, final essay, "Epistle to the Ecotopians," on Tom Englehardt's excellent TomDispatch website:
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175538/tomgram%3A_ernest_callenbach%2C_last_words_to_an_america_in_decline/#more
=d=-- Sandy
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