Showing posts with label Film Culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Film Culture. Show all posts
31.5.11

Adolfas Mekas

Another melancholy post to make, this time to recognize the passing of Adolfas Mekas, brother of Jonas, whose passion for cinema easily equaled that of his more (publicly) prominent brother.  It was Adolfas who co-founded Film Culture magazine back in 1954 with Jonas, a magazine that continues to be an endless source of fascination and insight for me even many long years after its cancellation (as evidenced by the many scanned pages to be found here on this blog).  Best wishes to his many friends and family...      

(the Mekas clan from Reminisces of a Voyage to Lithuania, via Anthology Archives)


R.I.P. 

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"'We' means Adolfas and me."
(-Jonas Mekas in A Critical Cinema 2)
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5.4.11

Cover Up (Pt. 2)


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(Vol. 1 no. 4)

(no. 2)

(no. 63-64)

(no. 65-66)

(no. 67-69)

17.2.11

Ritual in Transfigured Time

Guess Who?...


(From FC No. 72-75)
4.11.10

Where's Kenneth?

(Anger capturing footage for what would become Invocation of My Demon Brother; from FC)
26.10.10

Ron Rice

Turns out there is an apparent shortage of photos of the effervescent Ron Rice currently afflicting the World Wide Web.  In light of this troubling phenomenon I hope the following can serve as a very temporary relief...

 

 (Taylor Mead, Jeffrey Joffen and Rice)

 
(Rice and Jack Smith)


(photos from 'Film Journal' via the library of Amy Rice)


P.S.: Make sure to check out the comments below!
21.10.10

Cover Up

Film Culture...the product of another time and place, but perusing the exquisite pages found within what a time and place it must have been.  The following are just a few of the many covers seen throughout its forty plus years of existence ...

*apologies for some of the varying quality, certain scans proved more difficult than others...

(no. 34)

(no. 35)

(no. 36)

(no. 37)

(no. 39)

(no. 40)

(no. 42)

(no. 44)

(no. 45)

(no. 50-51)

(no. 52)

(no. 53-55)

(no. 56-57)

(no. 58-60)

(no. 61)







28.4.10

Shadow Man

Heading back to the 70's where we recently had a chance to gain some insight into Robert Breer's artistic process with the help of Jonas Mekas and P. Adams Sitney, the following is a lovely and lengthy 1974 Film Culture interview with Ken Jacobs (and Jerry Sims) conducted by Lindley Hanlon in preparation for a forthcoming filmmaker profile [no, this isn't a broken record, yes, it will be coming soon].











26.4.10

The Heroic Journey

I make this post with the promise that original material will be forthcoming, but in the mean time there are still a few past articles I would like to make available that I think are very much worth your time and consideration [apologies for the slight blurring, it's an amateur undertaking after all]...















(all images from Quick Billy by Bruce Baillie)
9.4.10

Body Shots

Revisiting a subject that came to the forefront here a few months back, one that continues to be of considerable concern, I thought I would post the following very interesting article by the great Robert Kelly  that appeared in the No. 31 Winter (1963-64) issue of Film Culture.