{"id":46,"date":"2011-08-21T04:00:49","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T03:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/?p=46"},"modified":"2012-02-06T22:14:09","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T21:14:09","slug":"intimate-vision-films-by-chick-strand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/2011\/08\/21\/intimate-vision-films-by-chick-strand\/","title":{"rendered":"Intimate Vision: Films by Chick Strand"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sunday 23 October 2011, at 2pm, NFT3<\/p>\n

As one of the instigators of Canyon Cinema, Chick Strand (1931-2009) was at the heart of 1960s West Coast avant-garde. Her film work, comprising of found footage and personally photographed material, has been rarely seen in the UK and is presented now in newly preserved prints. Strand\u2019s camera is almost continually in motion, catching details in kinetic close-up to convey celebrations of intimacy and the joys of living.<\/p>\n

\u2018For most of her filmmaking career, the integrity of Strand\u2019s vision lay aslant of prevailing fashions, so that only belatedly did the full significance of her radically pioneering work in ethnographic, documentary, feminist, and compilation filmmaking \u2013 and above all, in the innovation of a unique film language created across these modes \u2013 become clear.\u2019 (David James, The Most Typical Avant-Garde)<\/em><\/p>\n

Cartoon le Mousse<\/strong>
\nChick Strand | USA 1979 | 15 min
\nIn her collage films, Strand uses the magic of editing to conjure surreal humour from the connections between disparate fragments.<\/p>\n

Mosori Monika<\/strong>
\nChick Strand | USA 1970 | 20 min
\nThe impact of American missionaries on the Warao Indians in Venezuela is considered from the viewpoints of women from each side.<\/p>\n

Angel Blue Sweet Wings<\/strong>
\nChick Strand | USA 1966 | 3 min
\nA multi-layered cine-poem apropos life and vision.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Loose Ends<\/strong>
\nChick Strand | USA 1979 | 25 min
\nFound footage is used to convey the effect of information overload, finding wit and pathos in the complicated synthesis of personal experience and media assault.<\/p>\n

Artificial Paradise
\n<\/strong>Chick Strand | USA 1986 | 13 min
\n\u2018The anthropologist\u2019s most human desire: the ultimate contact with the informant. The denial of intellectualism and the acceptance of the romantic heart, and a soul without innocence.\u2019 (CS)<\/p>\n

Kristallnacht<\/strong>
\nChick Strand | USA 1979 | 7 min
\n\u2018Dedicated to the memory of Anne Frank, and the tenacity of the human spirit.\u2019 (CS)<\/p>\n

Mark Webber<\/em><\/p>\n

‘Loose Ends’<\/em> was preserved by Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley. All other films preserved by Pacific Film Archive and Academy Film Archive, Los Angeles, with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n

Also screening:
\n<\/strong>Thursday 27 October 2011, 9pm, NFT3
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read an interview with Chick Strand discussing the making of Mosori Monika<\/em> here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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