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[murdermystery]

"I wish to abandon imitation and illusion and enter directly into the higher drama of: celluloid, two dimensional strips; individual rectangular frames; the nature of sprockets and emulsion; projector operations; the three dimensional reflective screen surface; the retinal screen; optic nerve and individual psycho-physical subjectivities of

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[batarde]

I wish he'd lived & make his horror film.

[murdermystery]

any books to recommend on/by/about him? I'm gonna try to peep issue 65/66 of Film Culture since I guess it's about him, but other than that I just read a pamphlet by Stuart Liebman & another short book (catalog maybe) at home...

you probably already have but

[batarde]

Have you read Mediums of language or Dream Displacement and other projects? I keep meaning to spend an afternoon at the Art library but never get around to it.

Re: you probably already have but

[murdermystery]

Okay, I checked my account and it looks like Dream Displacement... is what I have at home. I'll ILL Mediums of Language soon.

[murdermystery]

Well, I suppose the easiest way would be to watch stuff on Ubu web:

Michael Snow, Hollis Frampton, Paul Sharits himself. batarde above probably knows more than me though... Any over view of american avant-garde film generally has at least a chapter on structuralist film too