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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, [1] it was filmed over one week in December 1966 and edited in 1967, [2] and is an example of what film theorist P. Adams Sitney describes as "structural film", [3] calling Snow "the dean of structural filmmakers."
Remedial Reading Comprehension forms part of the structural film movement of the 1960s and 70s, in that it considers "film itself as subject matter, its basic structures rather than its actual physical presence." [4] The film opens with a woman dreaming about an auditorium of people, who are sitting down as though about to watch a movie. [3]
Snow is considered one of the most influential experimental filmmakers of all time. Annette Michelson, in writing about Snow, his 1967 film Wavelength, and his films in general, speaks of the impact of Snow's films, placing viewers in a "position to more fully understand the particular impact of Snow's filmic work from 1967 on, to discern the reasons for the large consensus given" to ...
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.
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 ...
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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.