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He is considered to be one of the most important figures in 20th-century experimental film. Over the course of five decades, Brakhage created a large and diverse body of work , exploring a variety of formats, approaches and techniques that included handheld camerawork , painting directly onto celluloid , fast cutting , in-camera editing ...
Sarris was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Greek immigrant parents, Themis (née Katavolos) and George Andrew Sarris, and grew up in Ozone Park, Queens. [2] After attending John Adams High School in South Ozone Park (where he overlapped with Jimmy Breslin), he graduated from Columbia University in 1951 and then served for three years in the U.S. Army Signal Corps, during the Korean War, before ...
Maya Deren (/ ˈ d ɛr ən /; born Eleonora Derenkovskaya; Ukrainian: Елеоно́ра Деренко́вська; May 12 [O.S. April 29] 1917 [1] – October 13, 1961) was a Ukrainian-born American experimental filmmaker and important part of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s.
Part of the American Film Institute's 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes is a list of the top 100 quotations in American cinema. [1] The American Film Institute revealed the list on June 21, 2005, in a three-hour television program on CBS .
“Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger” makes nearly every other filmmakers’ work, past or present, look like faded remnants of a separate, more inhibited medium. Collectively ...
John Grierson CBE (26 April 1898 – 19 February 1972) was a Scottish documentary maker, often considered the father of British and Canadian documentary film.In 1926, Grierson coined the term "documentary" in a review of Robert J. Flaherty's Moana. [1]
1. “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” 2. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” 3. “Excellence is never an accident.
Born in 1926, Breer began his artistic career as a painter after studying at Stanford University and Paris. [2] " A founding member of the American avant-garde," [3] Breer was best known for his films, which combine abstract and representational painting, hand-drawn rotoscoping, original 16mm and 8mm film footage, photographs, and other materials.