On Jul 26, 2013, at 10:46 PM, David Baker wrote:
How is it possible on an "Experimental Film Discussion List" that so little is said in salute when someone of this singular magnitude of achievement passes into the cosmic ether of eternity? When I heard of his passing, I wondered how many younger folks had even heard of him, much less seen some of his work. It might be useful to think about the highly uneven reception some artists get and the reasons for that. Perhaps leaving NYC has some effect, since most of his later career was in flyover country, Ohio. Or being a pretty trippy and psychedelic type of maker in some of his work. Perhaps some of it was not being written about enough by critics, or curated into shows often enough, or touring enough. But some of it must have also been precisely because of his ease in shifting from one medium to another, and thus not fitting into "experimental film" in a pure sense because he also was involved in video and electronic music and image processing. It's less the case now, but for a long time there was a lot of purism in film circles. Chuck Kleinhans
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