Willie Varela Papers, ca. 1960-1995

Strand, Chick, 1931-2009

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Chick Strand, born Mildred D. Totman, was an American filmmaker who contributed to the movement of women's experimental cinema in the early 1960s–1970's. Strand's film making and directing approach incorporates personal elements from her own life experiences and societal forces and realities. ...

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...

Gidal, Peter

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Varela, Willie.

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Biography 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. Throughou...

Doberman, Gary.

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Sondheim, Alan

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Kilchesty, Albert

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Lattanzi, Barbara

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Sabal, Robert.

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Hudina, Chuck.

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Macdonald, Scott

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Herrera, Raul Lopez.

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Lee, David, 1941-

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Nava, Greg.

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Schneider, Rosalind

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Kuchar, George

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Cannon, Terry

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Lerman, Richard, 1944-

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Jost, Jon

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Lyon, Danny

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Danny Lyon (b. 1942, New York City), photographer and film maker. From the description of Lyon, Danny, 1942- (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10568401 ...

Canyon Cinema

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Canyon Cinema has been a driving force in the development of independent, avant-garde, and counter-culture filmmaking in the San Francisco Bay Area since publication of the first issue of THE NEWS (later, CINEMANEWS), in 1962. The primary activity of the collective is distribution of work via rental in several formats: primarily 16mm film, VHS and DVD. Filmmakers are shareholders; they submit their work to the Canyon Cinema Review Committee for evaluation. The films are then deposited with Canyo...

Mekas, Jonas, 1922-....

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Jonas Mekas was born in Lithuania in 1922. In 1949, Mekas emigrated with his brother to the United States, where he became interested in avant-garde film. He later began screening his own avant-garde films and publishing criticism in several different venues, including Film Culture . Mekas also founded the Anthology Film Archives, one of the world's largest collections of avant-garde films. From the description of Jonas Mekas collection of Fluxus film loops, 1960-1970. (University of...

Dick, Vivienne, 1950-

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Keller, Marjorie

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Barrie, Dianne.

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Scaff, Bill.

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Kren, Kurt, 1929-1998

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Vasquez, Gustavo.

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Creative Arts Public Service Program.

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Rubin, Peter

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Gottheim, Larry

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Encounter Cinema.

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Zdravič, Andrej, 1952-

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Doby, Alex.

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Fridman, Adele, 1898-1963

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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...

Vigil, Carmen

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Murphy, J. J. (John Joseph), 1924-

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John J. Murphy lived in western Virginia at the beginning of the Civil War. His wife was a member of the Tiffany family. Sometime around the first battle of Bull Run Murphy was arrested by the Confederates and was sent to Staunton, Virginia where he was imprisoned. During his imprisonment his wife died as did several of her relatives. After his release in 1862 he left Virginia and eventually settled with his daughter in North Vernon, Indiana. While there he started a business in the sale of ciga...

Gekiere, Madeline.

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España, Frances Salomé

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Santa Barbara Independent Film Museum.

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Baillie, Bruce

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Friedrich, Su

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Posner, Bruce

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Gamboa, Harry

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Harry Gamboa, Jr. (1951- ) is a painter, writer, photographer, and video artist from Los Angeles, Calif. From the description of Oral history interview with Harry Gamboa, Jr., 1999 Apr. 1-16 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82194672 Chicano artist, born in East Los Angeles in 1951. Primarily uses photography but also video, live performance and writing. From the description of Photographs, 1972-1992. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122369479 ...

Brabner, Wendy

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Vasulka, Woody.

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Haslanger, Martha.

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Lerner, Jesse.

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Guttenplan, Howard.

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Sharits, Paul

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Gardner, Chris

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Poe, Amos

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Amos Poe (Amos Jay Porges) was born in Tel Aviv in 1949, and his family emigrated to the United States in 1957. The Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia provided a source for his first photographic series in 1968. His film career began in the early 1970s, when he made his first Super-8 films and briefly worked in distribution. Poe became one of the leading figures of the No Wave Cinema Movement (1976-1985) that developed out the New York East Village music and art community, which included Jim Jar...

Huot, Robert

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Lipzin, Janis.

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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 ....

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...

Clancy, Patrick.

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Gerstein, David

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White, John

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Epithet: Reverend; brother of Gilbert White British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001152.0x00003c Epithet: parish clerk of Camerton British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001152.0x00003b Epithet: of Add MS 38458 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001152.0x000030 ...

Greenfield, Amy

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