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By the late 1960s, the structural film movement coincided with a shift in experimental cinema away from 1960s counterculture and toward closer affiliations with academia and film theory. [5] [6] In 1969 Film Culture magazine published P. Adams Sitney's essay "Structural Film", in which he coined the term. [7]
Considered a landmark of avant-garde cinema, [2] it was filmed over one week in December 1966 and edited in 1967, [3] and is an example of what film theorist P. Adams Sitney describes as "structural film", [4] calling Snow "the dean of structural filmmakers." [5]
T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G is a 12-minute short film directed by Paul Sharits in 1968. [1] It uses many of the strategies characteristic of the structural film movement, including a static frame, flicker effects, flash frames and continual audio and visual repetition. The audio track consists exclusively of the filmmaker uttering the word "destroy" over ...
The couple moved to New York City in 1963, but they moved back to Toronto about a decade later and divorced in 1976. [2] In 1990, he married curator and writer Peggy Gale, and they had one son. [2] He was the uncle of filmmaker and video artist Su Rynard. [6] Snow died from pneumonia in Toronto on January 5, 2023, at the age of 94. [7] [2]
Paul Jeffrey Sharits (February 7, 1943, Denver, Colorado—July 8, 1993, Buffalo, New York) was a visual artist, best known for his work in experimental, or avant-garde filmmaking, particularly what became known as the structural film movement, along with other artists such as Tony Conrad, Hollis Frampton, and Michael Snow.
Zorns Lemma is a 1970 American structural experimental film by Hollis Frampton. Originally starting as a series of photographs, the non-narrative film is structured around a 24-letter classical Latin alphabet. It remains, along with Michael Snow's Wavelength and Tony Conrad's The Flicker, one of the best known examples of structural filmmaking.
Beryl Davies, 79, told BBC that she was “in total shock” after being contacted about a video that depicted her marriage to her late ex-husband, Griff, in a village near Cardigan, Ceredigion in ...
Sitney attended Yale University, where he received an A.B. in classics in 1967 and a Ph.D. in comparative literature in 1980. He co-founded the Anthology Film Archives in 1970 [3] and, along with Jonas Mekas, Peter Kubelka, Ken Kelman, and James Broughton, served as one of the members of the Anthology Film Archives Essential Cinema [4] film selection committee.