17.9.10
Carl Brown Interview
The exile of many of the greatest artists to the margins of their given medium is obviously nothing new, yet the sting that accompanies the knowledge of the occurrence of this injustice remains as vexatious as ever, none more so than in the case of the Canadian artist Carl Brown, one of cinema's greatest visual alchemists. The following interview was included in a small bi-lingual book released on Brown, edited by Hangjun Lee and Gyejoong Kim...
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7.9.10
Eye Lid
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Mike Chikiris' cover for the second edition (1976) of Brakhage's 'Meptahors on Vision', a text that for the most part remains as provocative, playful and challenging as the day it was released...
4.9.10
Waking the Dead
As previously mentioned, Bruce Elder’s The Book of all the Dead has loomed large on my personal horizon for some time now, one of a handful of ambitious cinematic sequences that capture my fascination in ways that little else does. God willing in the near future I’ll have the opportunity at MoMA to scale the great heights of a few other works of a like-nature (if not like-mind), but unfortunately as to Elder’s creation itself for the foreseeable future that great hunger is somewhat satiated through peripheral testaments like the following very engaging 1988 Millenium Film Journal interview between Jim Shedden and Elder.
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