Serious Business Company records, 1965-1983 (bulk 1972-1983).

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. ...

Clarke, Shirley, 1919-1997

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Born in New York, Shirley Clarke first made waves as a dancer studying with modern choreographers like Martha Graham, Hanya Holm, and Doris Humphrey. In early short films, such as A Dance in the Sun (1953), Bullfight (1955), and Bridges Go Round (1958), she successfully fused her interests in choreography and cinema. Subsequent feature films The Connection (1961), The Cool World (1964), and Portrait of Jason (1967) were landmarks of independent cinema, charting an uncompromising path through con...

Cooper, Karen A.

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Potter, Sally

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Graves, Nancy Stevenson, 1940-1995

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Painter, sculptor; New York, N.Y. Died 1995. From the description of Nancy Stevenson Graves interviews, 1972 Aug. 18-1972 Aug. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220186238 Nancy Stevenson Graves (1940-1995) was a painter and sculptor from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Nancy Stevenson Graves, 1972 Aug. 18-25 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 495595173 ...

Hammer, Barbara, 1970-

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Nelson, Gunvor, 1931-....

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Bartlett, Freude.

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Conner, Bruce, 1933-2008

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Born in McPherson, Kansas, in 1933, Bruce Conner spent his childhood and young adulthood in nearby Wichita. Upon graduating from Wichita High School East, Conner went on to study art at Wichita University and University of Nebraska, where he met his wife-to-be, Jean Sandstedt. He continued art studies at the Brooklyn Art School and the University of Colorado. In 1957, at the urging of his childhood friend, the poet Michael McClure, and attracted by stories of a vibrant art and literary scene tha...

Praunheim, Rosa ˜vonœ 1942-

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German gay filmmaker. From the description of Rosa von Praunheim papers, 1976-1993. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64083462 ...

Brakhage, Stan

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Avant-garde filmmaker; full name James Stanley Brakhage; b. 1933. From the description of Stan Brakhage papers, 1953-1966. (University of Connecticut). WorldCat record id: 28415992 ...

O'Neill, Pat, 1939-....

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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 ...

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...

Severson, Anne

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Burkhardt, Rudy.

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Jordan, Larry, 1934-

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Larry Jordan, 1934-, filmmaker and collagist of Petaluma, Calif. From the description of Oral history interview with Larry Jordan, 1995 Dec. 19 - 1996 July 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80691370 ...

Serious Business Company

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Serious Business Company was founded by Freude Bartlett in 1972 to distribute independent and experimental films. The company roster featured an extensive array of important filmmakers and was one of only a handful of distributors specializing in independent and experimental films. Serious Business Company was dissolved in 1983. From the description of Serious Business Company records, 1965-1983 (bulk 1972-1983). (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 25815092 ...

Cruikshank, Sally

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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...

Kuchar, George, 1942-2011

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Hutton, Peter, 1944-

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