American Independents/ The Cutting Edge 1921-1976
10/2/1979

Location: Encounter Cinema
Melnitz Auditorium, UCLA

Curator: Douglas Edwards

Description:
k). Presented by the Craft and Folk Art Museum and the UCLA Film Archive in cooperation with the UCLA Department of Fine Arts Productions. Special guest Shirley Clarke will introduce the program. [Source: Encounter Cinema Program Notes, 1979]

Films Screened:

• Manhatta (1921) Paul Strand
• The Life and Death of 9413: A Hollywood Extra (1928) Robert Florey(35mm, B/W, Silent, 00:13:00)
• Radio Dynamics (1942) Oskar Fischinger(16mm, Color, Silent, 00:04:00)
• Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) Maya Deren(16mm, B/W, Sound , 00:14:00)
• Geography of the Body (1943) Williard Maas
• Film Exercise #5 (1944) John Whitney (16mm, Color, Sound, 00:05:00)
• The Long Bodies
• A Movie (1958) Bruce Conner(16mm, Black and White, Sound)
• Bridges-Go-Round (1958) Shirley Clarke
• Little Stabs at Happiness (1960) Ken Jacobs
• Re-Entry
• Fire of Waters
• Cassis (1966) Jonas Mekas(00:05:00)
• T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G (1968) Paul Sharits(00:12:00)
• 69 (1968) Robert Breer(Color, Sound, 00:05:00)
• Lemon (For Robert Huot) (1969) Hollis Frampton
• Surfacing on the Thames (1970) David Rimmer(Silent, 00:08:00)
• Serene Velocity (1970) Ernie Gehr(Color, Silent, 00:23:00)
• X (1976)
• Light Traps (1975) Louis Hock(16mm , Color , Silent , 00:10:00)

In Person: Ed Emshwiller
10/11/1979

Location: Encounter Cinema
Melnitz Auditorium, UCLA

Curator: Douglas Edwards

Description:

Films Screened:

• Lifelines (1960) Ed Emshwiller(16mm , 00:07:00)
• Thanatopsis (1962) Ed Emshwiller(16mm , B/W, 00:05:00)
• Relativity (1966) Ed Emshwiller(16mm , 00:38:00)
• Scape-Mates (1972) Ed Emshwiller(16mm , 00:29:00)

Stan Brakhage
10/16/1979

Location: Encounter Cinema
Melnitz Auditorium, UCLA

Curator: Douglas Edwards

Description:
Mr. Brakhage will discuss his film work with the audience following the screening. [Source: Encounter Cinema Program Notes, 1979]

Films Screened:

• Duplicity
• Duplicity II

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• Thot-Fal'n, Sluice
• Nightmare Series

George Kuchar
10/21/1979

Location: Encounter Cinema
Melnitz Auditorium, UCLA

Curator: Douglas Edwards

Description:
Mr. Kuchar will discuss his film work following the screening. [Source: Encounter Cinema Program Notes, 1979]

Films Screened:

• Blips (1979) George Kuchar
• Prescription in Blue (1978) George Kuchar
• The Asphalt Ribbon (1977) George Kuchar
• The Mongreloid George Kuchar

Sex and the American Independent/ Experimental Film
10/23/1979

Location: Encounter Cinema
Melnitz Auditorium, UCLA

Curator: Douglas Edwards

Description:
Survey concept originated by Chicago Filmmakers, 1979, and adapted for Encounter Cinema by Douglas Edwards. [Source: Encounter Cinema Program Notes, 1979]

Films Screened:

• Fireworks (1947) Kenneth Anger(16mm, B/W, Sound, 00:16:00)
• Five Times Marilyn
• Blonde Cobra (1963) Ken Jacobs
• Puce Moment (1970) Kenneth Anger(16mm, Color, Sound, 00:10:00)
• The Bed
• Filet of Soul (Victor Faccinto)
• Fuses (1965) Carolee Schneemann

Scott Bartlett
10/30/1979

Location: Encounter Cinema
Melnitz Auditorium, UCLA

Curator: Douglas Edwards

Description:
Mr. Bartlett will discuss his film work with the audience. [Source: Encounter Cinema Program Notes, 1979]

Films Screened:

• Medina
• OffOn (1968) Scott Bartlett
• Serpent (1971) Scott Bartlett(16mm, Sound, 00:15:00)
• Sound of One (1971) Scott Bartlett(16mm, Color, Sound, 00:12:00)
• Heavy Metal
• Going Home

Bastian Cleve
11/6/1979

Location: Encounter Cinema
Melnitz Auditorium, UCLA

Curator: Douglas Edwards

Description:
Mr. Cleve will discuss his works following the screening . [Source: Encounter Cinema Program Notes, 1979]

Films Screened:

• Lichtblick (1975) Bastian Cleve
• San Francisco Zephyr (1978) Bastian Cleve

Narrative Directions: Chantal Akerman
11/11/1979

Location: Encounter Cinema
Melnitz Auditorium, UCLA

Curator: Douglas Edwards

Description:
Discussion with Ms. Akerman . [Source: Encounter Cinema Program Notes, 1979]

Films Screened:

• News from Home (1977) Chantel Akerman
• The Meetings of Anna (1978) Chantel Akerman

Hellmuth Costard
11/20/1979

Location: Encounter Cinema
Melnitz Auditorium, UCLA

Curator: Douglas Edwards

Description:

Films Screened:

• A Little Godard to the Production Board for Young German Cinema (1978) Hellmuth Costard
• Of Special Merit (1968) Hellmuth Costard
• The Oppression of Woman is Primarily Evident in the Behavior of Women Themselves (1969) Hellmuth Costard

Warren Sonbert
11/27/1979

Location: Encounter Cinema
Melnitz Auditorium, UCLA

Curator: Douglas Edwards

Description:
Mr. Sonbert will discuss his film work with the audience. [Source: Encounter Cinema Program Notes, 1979]

Films Screened:

• Rude Awakening (1976) Warren Sonbert
• Divided Loyalties (1978) Warren Sonbert

Steve Dwoskin
12/2/1979

Location: Encounter Cinema
Melnitz Auditorium, UCLA

Curator: Douglas Edwards

Films Screened:

• Jesus Blood Never...
• Moment
• Hindered

L.A. Optical: Featuring the work of Robert Blalack, Chris Casady, Larry Cuba, Jeff Carpenter, Mary Lambert
1/8/1980

Location: Encounter Cinema
Melnitz Auditorium, UCLA

Curator: Douglas Edwards

Description:
The purpose of this program is to demonstrate the broad range of both personal and commercial work being done by a number of Southern California filmmakers, especially work involving the use of optical printer and computer graphics systems. What is referred to as "independent filmmaking" is frequently thought to be practically and ideologically at odds with what is termed "commercial" filmmaking. The filmmakers represented here (as well as several other noteworthy local film artists who, for lack of time, are not included) have managed to combine both these fields of creative endeavor in individual and distinctive waves. They each function as a bridge between important points of view which were widely believed irreconcilable but a few years ago. [Source: Encounter Cinema, 1980]

Films Screened:

Richard Myers
1/13/1980

Location: Encounter Cinema
Melnitz Auditorium, UCLA

Curator: Douglas Edwards

Description:
Mr. Myers will discuss his film work with the audience, following the screening. [Source: Encounter Cinema Program Notes, 1980]

Films Screened:

• Coronation (1965) Richard Myers
• Floorshow (1978) Richard Myers

Sex and the American Independent/ Experimental Film Program IV
1/15/1980

Location: Encounter Cinema
Melnitz Auditorium, UCLA

Curator: Douglas Edwards

Films Screened:

• Scorpio Rising (1964) Kenneth Anger(16mm, Color, Sound, 00:28:00)

Tom DeWitt
1/22/1980

Location: Encounter Cinema
Melnitz Auditorium, UCLA

Curator: Douglas Edwards

Description:
Mr. DeWitt will comment on the films at various times during the screening. A question and answer session with the audience will follow the screening [Source: Encounter Cinema Program Notes, 1980]

Films Screened:

• Atmosfear
• The Leap
• Off-On (1968) Scott Bartlett(16mm, Color, Sound, 00:10:00)
• Fall
• Pantomime Kinescops: War Wall
• Zierot in War Wall
• Zierot
• Outta Space

Robert Polidori
1/24/1980

Location: Encounter Cinema
Melnitz Auditorium, UCLA

Curator: Douglas Edwards

Description:
New York filmmaker Robert Polidori works with film processes and the material of film to explore the illusions and spatial qualities of the medium. [Source: Encounter Cinema Program Notes, 1980]

Films Screened:

• Erbalunga
• D/Isolation
• Genetic Codes
• 93 Nassau St.
• Muremur Dipthong

Curt McDowell
2/5/1980

Location: Encounter Cinema
Melnitz Auditorium, UCLA

Curator: Douglas Edwards

Description:
Curt McDowell lives and works in San Francisco. A close friend of George Kuchar (they both appear with some frequency in each other's films), McDowell is perhaps most widely known for his directorial realization of Kuchar's screenplay for THUNDERCRACK, the brilliant comedy whcih proved that hard-core sex on film can actually be erotic (and extremely funny). That film also marked the film debut of Marion Eaton, a remarkable actress who has become something of a personal "star" for both McDowell and Kuchar. However, although he shares Kuchar's tatse for parody and sature, McDowell is a distinctive artist who continues to explore uncharted areas of erotic lyricism in film. Industrious and prolific, McDowell constantly conceives and photographs new works even when he doesn't have the moeny for final editing or release prints. As an Archetypical "struggling artist," he has shot nearly a dozen short filmd and one ambitious feature, SPARKLE'S TAVERN, in the five years since THUNDERCRACK. At present, only one of these new works, SKINNY TIES, has reached the verge of "final mix" and priting. Proceeds from this special retrospective program will go toward the completion of SPARKLE's TAVERN, SKINNY TIES and Mr. McDowell's other works in progress. [Source: Encounter Cinema Program Notes, 1980]

Films Screened:

• Ronnie (1972) Curt McDowell
• True Blue and Dreamy (1974) Curt McDowell
• Nudes: A Sketchbook (1975) Curt McDowell(B/W, Sound, 00:30:00)
• Fly Me to the Moon (1975) Curt McDowell
• Thundercrack! (1975) Curt McDowell

Scott B and Beth B
2/10/1980

Location: Encounter Cinema
Melnitz Auditorium, UCLA

Curator: Douglas Edwards

Films Screened:

• G-Man
• Letters to Dad
• Black Box

Shirley Clarke
2/19/1980

Location: Encounter Cinema
Melnitz Auditorium, UCLA

Curator: Douglas Edwards

Description:
Ms. Clarke will discuss her work with the audience. [Source: Encounter Cinema Program Notes, 1980]

Films Screened:

• Four Journies into Mystic Time
• 24 Frames per Second
• Dance in the Sun

Danny Lyon
2/26/1980

Location: Encounter Cinema
Melnitz Auditorium, UCLA

Curator: Douglas Edwards

Description:

Films Screened:

• El Otro Lado (1978) Danny Lyon
• Los Ninos Abandonados (1975) Danny Lyon

Lawrence Weiner
3/2/1980

Location: Encounter Cinema
Melnitz Auditorium, UCLA

Curator: Douglas Edwards

Description:

Films Screened:

• Altered to Suit (1979) Lawrence Weiner
• It Is, Done To (1974) Lawrence Weiner

Len Lye
3/4/1980

Location: Encounter Cinema
Melnitz Auditorium, UCLA

Curator: Douglas Edwards

Description:

Films Screened:

• Colour Box (1935) Len Lye
• The Birth of the Robot (1936) Len Lye
• Rainbow Dance (1936) Len Lye
• Trade Tattoo (1937) Len Lye
• N or NW (1938) Len Lye
• When the Pie Was Opened (1941) Len Lye
• Musical Poster Number One (1940) Len Lye
• Swinging the Lambeth Walk (1939) Len Lye
• Rainbow Dance (1936) Len Lye
• Colour Box (1935) Len Lye

Robert Huot
4/6/1980

Location: Encounter Cinema
Melnitz Auditorium, UCLA

Curator: Douglas Edwards

Description:
Mr. Huot will discuss his work with the audience [Source: Encounter Cinema Program, 1980]

Films Screened:

• Cross Cut
• Snow
• A Blue Movie
• Turning Torso Drawdown
• Faces of Faces
• Beautiful Movie

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• Super-8 Diary '79 Part 5

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• Super-8 Diary '79 Part 7
• Erotic Trilogy

Walter Gutman
4/15/1980

Location: Encounter Cinema
Melnitz Auditorium, UCLA

Curator: Douglas Edwards

Description:
Mr. Gutman will discuss his films with the audience [Source: Encounter Cinema Program Notes, 1980]

Films Screened:

• The Erotic Signal
• Anaktoria Among the Roses
• Sappho

Kurt Kren
4/22/1980

Location: Encounter Cinema
Melnitz Auditorium, UCLA

Curator: Douglas Edwards

Description:

Films Screened:

• 48 Kopfe Aus Dem Szondi Test
• Baume Im Herbst
• Fenstergucker
• Mama Und Papa
• Selbstverstummelung Aktion Brus
• Tv
• Asyl
• An W + B
• Tschibo
• Tischart
• Tree Again
• Sentimental Punk (1979) Kurt Kren

Tim Bruce
5/6/1980

Location: Encounter Cinema
Melnitz Auditorium, UCLA

Curator: Douglas Edwards

Description:
Mr. Bruce will discuss his films following the screening [Source: Encounter Cinema Program Notes, 1980]

Films Screened:

• Visit
• Left-Stop II
• A Cup of Tea- A Film
• View from Reardon

Journeys from Berlin
5/11/1980

Location: Encounter Cinema
Melnitz Auditorium, UCLA

Curator: Douglas Edwards

Description:

Films Screened:

• Journeys From Berlin (1971) Yvonne Rainer

Dennis Pies
5/13/1980

Location: Encounter Cinema
Melnitz Auditorium, UCLA

Curator: Douglas Edwards

Description:
Mr. Pies will discuss his work following the presentation [Source: Encounter Cinema Program Notes, 1980]

Films Screened:

• Voice Presence for Hand Held Screen Dennis Pies
• The Nares Chamber Dennis Pies
• The Green Child Dennis Pies
• Terminal Self for Wax Screen Dennis Pies
• Surface Work Dennis Pies
• Merkaba Dennis Pies
• Aura Corona (1974) Dennis Pies(Color, 00:04:00)
• Luma Nocturna (1974) Dennis Pies (16mm, Color , Sound, 00:04:00)
• Sonoma Dennis Pies (00:09:00)
• Hand Piece (1979) Dennis Pies (35mm or 16mm, Color, Sound, 00:10:30)

Jon Jost
5/20/1980

Location: Encounter Cinema
Melnitz Auditorium, UCLA

Curator: Douglas Edwards

Description:
Mr. Jost will discuss his film work following the screening[Source: Encounter Cinema Program Notes, 1980]

Films Screened:

• Last Chants for a Slow Dance (1977) Jon Jost (16mm, Color , Sound, 01:30:00)

Absolute Animation
5/25/1980

Location: Encounter Cinema
Melnitz Auditorium, UCLA

Curator: Larry Cuba

Description:
Program Coordinated by Larry Cuba [Source: Encounter Cinema Program Notes, 1980]

Films Screened:

• Synchromy (1971) Norman McLaren
• Soundtrack (1969) Barry Spinello
• Four Quadrant Exercise (1975) Al Jarnow(00:03:00)
• Luma Nocturna (1974) Dennis Pies (16mm, Color , Sound, 00:04:00)
• Impasse (1978) Frank Mouris (16mm, Color , 00:09:00)
• Two Space (1979) Larry Cuba(16mm, B/W, Sound, 00:18:00)
• Step Print (1976) George Griffin(00:03:00)
• Shapes and Gestures (1976) Jules Engel(16mm, Color, Sound, 00:06:00)
• Kitch in Synch
• Arabesque (1975) John Whitney(16mm, Color, Sound, 00:07:00)
• Five Improvisations (1979) Paul Glabicki(16mm, Color, Sound, 00:03:30)

Andrej Zdravic
5/27/1980

Location: Encounter Cinema
Melnitz Auditorium, UCLA

Curator: Douglas Edwards

Description:
Mr. Zdravic will discuss his film work during the presentation. [Source: Encounter Cinema Program Notes, 1980]

Films Screened:

• Waterbed (1974) Andrej Zdravic
• Dolga Vas Andrej Zdravic
• Sunhopsoon (1976) Andrej Zdravic
• Via Sound (1978) Andrej Zdravic
• Breath (1968) Jimmy Murakami(16mm, Color, Sound, 00:04:00)
• Phenix (1975) Andrej Zdravic
• New York Studies Andrej Zdravic
• Dom (Home) (1979) Andrej Zdravic

Willie Varela
6/3/1980

Location: Encounter Cinema
Melnitz Auditorium, UCLA

Curator: Douglas Edwards

Description:

Films Screened:

• Moondance I (1979) Willie Varela
• Moondance II (1979) Willie Varela
• Green Light (1979) Willie Varela
• Clear Strobe Picture Willie Varela
• Bent Light (1975) Willie Varela
• Albuquerque Diary (1978) Willie Varela
• San Francisco Diary (1979) Willie Varela

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• Becky's Eye

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• April '77

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• November '78

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• March of '79
• Leaves of Glass (1979) Willie Varela
• Portrait of Becky (1980) Willie Varela
• 3 Silent Questions Willie Varela

1979 Whitney Biennial Film Exhibition: Program I
7/1/1980

Location: Encounter Cinema
Melnitz Auditorium, UCLA

Curator: Douglas Edwards

Description:

Films Screened:

• Six Colorful Inside Jobs (1977) John Baldessari (16mm, Color, Silent, 00:32:53)
• One Way Boogie Woogie (1977) James Benning (16mm, Color, Sound, 01:00:00)

1979 Whitney Biennial Film Exhibition: Program II
7/15/1980

Location: Encounter Cinema
Melnitz Auditorium, UCLA

Curator: Douglas Edwards

Description:

Films Screened:

• Divided Loyalties (1978) Warren Sonbert
• Lived Time (1978) Martha Haslanger
• Landscape and Room (1980) David Haxton
• Analytical Studies II: Un-Framed Lines (1976) Paul Sharits

1979 Whitney Biennial Film Exhibition: Program III
7/29/1980

Location: Encounter Cinema
Melnitz Auditorium, UCLA

Curator: Douglas Edwards

Description:

Films Screened:

• Four Shadows (1978) Larry Gottheim
• The March of Paris 1914-- of Generaloberst Alexander Von Kluck--and his Memory of Jessie Holladay (1977) Walter Gutman

1979 Whitney Biennial Film Exhibition: Program IV
8/12/1980

Location: Encounter Cinema
Melnitz Auditorium, UCLA

Curator: Douglas Edwards

Description:

Films Screened:

• 77 (1977) Robert Breer
• LMNO (1978) Robert Breer
• Valse Triste (1977) Bruce Conner
• Otherwise Unexplained Fires (1977) Hollis Frampton(Color, Silent, 00:15:00)
• Sincerity III (1978) Stan Brakhage

1979 Whitney Biennial Film Exhibition: Program V
8/26/1980

Location: Encounter Cinema
Melnitz Auditorium, UCLA

Curator: Douglas Edwards

Description:
Includes 5 FILMS by Stuart Sherman.

Films Screened:

• Incontinence Manuel Delanda
• The Burghers of Fort Worth (1977) Howard Fried
• Roslyn Romance (Is it Really True?) (1977) Bruce Baillie(00:18:00)
• Intro I and II (1978) Bruce Baillie
• Notes for Jerome (1978) Jonas Mekas

1979 Whitney Biennial Film Exhibition: Program VI
9/9/1980

Location: Encounter Cinema
Melnitz Auditorium, UCLA

Curator: Douglas Edwards

Description:

Films Screened:

• Suite California Stops & Passes Part 1: Tijuana to Hollywood Via Death Valley (1976) Robert Nelson (16mm, Color & B/W, Sound, 00:46:00)
• Suite California Stops & Passes Part 2: San Francisco to the Sierra Nevadas & Back Again (1978) (16mm, Color & B/W, Sound, 00:48:00)