EXP. Experimental Film and Video
Record Group
Identifier: EXP
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Brakhage Biography Project collection
Collection
Identifier: COU 5059
Abstract
The Stan Brakhage Biography Project was conducted from 2017 to 2021 by David E. James, emeritus professor of Cinematic Arts at USC, to compile audio interviews and other documents on the experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage. Interviews were conducted with Brakhage's filmmaking contemporaries and film scholars, including Ken Jacobs, Jonas Mekas, Ernie Gehr, Michael Snow, P. Adams Sitney, Peter Kubelka, and others. James also conducted a series of 12 interviews with Jane Wodening, first wife...
Dates:
2017 - 2021
Cecile Starr papers
Collection
Identifier: COU:150
Abstract
Cecile Starr was a film critic, programmer, and distributor, from the 1960s to the 2000s, with particular interest in documentary, avant-garde film, and experimental animation. Papers in this collection include her correspondence with filmmaker Stan Brakhage (1960s-2000s), her collected research on 1920s Hollywood cinema, and material related to her work as an independent distributor for filmmakers like Len Lye, Hans Richter, Oskar Fischinger, and Drew Klausner. The collection also includes...
Dates:
1966 - 1996
Don Yannacito collection
File
Identifier: COU:5045
Abstract
Don Yannacito has been a lecturer and senior instructor in Film Studies (later Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts) at the University of Colorado Boulder since the department's founding in 1975. He served as assistant director of the Rocky Mountain Film Center and curator of First Person Cinema, an avant-garde film and video program, for more than 35 years. This collection contains records, audio recordings, and digital photographs related to First Person Cinema, as well as material related...
Dates:
1970 - 2020
Ken and Flo Jacobs collection
Collection
Identifier: COU:5063
Abstract
Ken (b. 1933-) and Flo (b.1941-) Jacobs are artists, performers, and experimental filmmakers based in Manhattan. The Jacobs Collection includes correspondence, film festival entry forms, grant applications, oral history interviews, and written materials related to the Jacobs’ multi-decade long career in New York’s avant-garde and experimental art community, as well as Ken Jacobs' teaching in the Department of Cinema at Binghamton University.
Dates:
1930 - 2022
Stan Brakhage collection
Collection
Identifier: COU:228
Abstract
James Stanley Brakhage (1933-2003) was a filmmaker, author, and film studies professor at the University of Colorado. The papers consist of personal and professional correspondence, academic materials, manuscripts and publications, and original art books and made items. Visual materials include photographs, slides, negatives, and film strips from Brakhage’s work, and audio materials include lectures, interviews, radio programs, performed readings, and sound experiments by Brakhage and...
Dates:
1947 - 1999; Majority of material found within 1969 - 1986
