You weren't dreaming Fred, I found the article. I can't read it or copy it here though because I don't have the required subscription to Time. Maybe someone else on the list can help share? My curiosity has been activated.
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,939493,00.html > Cinema: In the Year of Our Ford > Friday, Apr. 03, 1964 > > No one has heard much about movies like Breath-Death, Cosmic Ray, and Stone > Sonata, but now the Ford Foundation has begun pouring tuns of gold on the > happy heads of the people who made them. The foundation has decided to > encourage the art of film as practiced by lone stylists whose pictures are > usually brief, almost always 16-mm., and sometimes comprehensible only to > themselves. > Accordingly, Ford sought a list of 177 candidates, invited them to send > sample films, then picked twelve winners. Most got $10,000. The total grant > was $118,500. > > Presumably, the foundation screened... > > [To continue reading: Log-In] _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
