Canyon Cinema Records ca. 1961-2009

Anger, Kenneth

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Kenneth Anger (born Kenneth Wilbur Anglemyer, February 3, 1927) is an American underground experimental filmmaker, actor and author. Working exclusively in short films, he has produced almost forty works since 1937, nine of which have been grouped together as the "Magick Lantern Cycle". His films variously merge surrealism with homoeroticism and the occult, and have been described as containing "elements of erotica, documentary, psychodrama, and spectacle". Anger himself has been described as "o...

Connor, Bruce

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Kuchar, Mike, 1942-

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Varela, Willie, 1950-

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A prolific and noted Super-8 filmmaker, programmer, and advocate. In the 1970s and early 1980s, Varela's extensive public programming as founder and director of SWAMP-El Paso (Southwestern Alternative Media Project) became the subject of a bitter censorship struggle, receiving national attention. Since the mid-1980s, his work has become increasingly political and since 1992 he has turned to Hi-8 video as well as narrative. Throughout his career, Varela's work has explored social space and cultur...

Baillie, Bruce, 1931-

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Lawder, Standish D.

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Nelson, Robert

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Kuchar, George, 1942-2011

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Brakhage, Stan

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Stan Brakhage was born 14 January 1933, in Kansas City, MO, and adopted by Ludwig (a shoe salesman) and Clara (Dubberstein) Brakhage . He attended Dartmouth College for two months. He is an Independent filmmaker and currently professor of film history at the University of Colorado . Brakhage has also lectured in film history and aesthetics at Art Institute of Chicago and at colleges in the United States and Europe . He is a member of selection committee for the Anthology of Cinema ....

Sharits, Paul

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Nelson, Gunvor

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Schneemann, Carolee, 1939-

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Carolee Schneemann actively engaged in performance art, experimental film-making, the Fluxus movement and feminist theory in the 1960s-1970s. The artist is best known for the provocative use of her nude body to explore personal expression, sexual taboos and feminism in both multi-media performances and solo improvisational work. Born in 1939, Schneemann studied painting at the University of Illinois and Bennington College in the late-1950s. Her performance work evolved out of a desir...

Kren, Kurt, 1929-1998

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Iimura, Takahiko, 1937-

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Broughton, James, 1913-1999

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James Richard Broughton was raised in California and graduated from Stanford University in 1936. After studying playwriting and directing in New York, Broughton returned to California and began making experimental films, including The Pleasure Garden, which won a special jury prize at the 1954 Cannes Film Festival. During this time, Broughton wrote and published poetry as one of San Francisco's "Renaissance Poets," which included Helen Adam, Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, and Eve Triem. From 1958 t...