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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]
Structural film was an avant-garde experimental film movement prominent in the United States in the 1960s. A related movement developed in the United Kingdom in the 1970s. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
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 ...
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.
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]
The final film was produced by Walt Disney Pictures, and was shown on TV in 1964. [2] Each special explored a single subject in detail. The host for the first eight films was Frank C. Baxter, a USC professor of English and television personality who played the role of "Dr. Research" (or "Dr. Linguistics" in The Alphabet Conspiracy).
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 ...
Arnulf Rainer is a 1960 Austrian experimental short film by Peter Kubelka, and one of the earliest flicker films. [1] The film alternates between light or the absence of light and sound or the absence of sound. Since its May 1960 premiere in Vienna, Arnulf Rainer has become known as a fundamental work for structural film.