- Collection:
- Big Joy Digital Collection
- Title:
- Robert Haller interview, 2010-06
- Creator:
- Haller, Robert A.
- Contributor to Resource:
- Hereford, Allen
Slade, Eric
Silha, Stephen - Publisher:
- Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2010-06
- Subject:
- Experimental films
Experimental poetry, American
Anthology Film Archives - People:
- Broughton, James, 1913-1999
Deren, Maya - Location:
- United States, New York, New York County, New York, 40.7142691, -74.0059729
- Medium:
- interviews
- Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Topics discussed: Broughton was a pagan and a poet who believed in the image and freedom; Experimental film as more like poetry than prose; Evolution of experimental film in America 1920s to today; 16 mm film/cameras became available as war surplus in 1940s; Whitney Brothers, Kenneth Anger, Jack Smith, Gregory Marcopolis, Curtis Harrington, Chester Kessler, Maya Deren, Lawrence Jordan, Stan Brakhage, Ian Hugo, Marie Menken, Bruce Baillie, Hollis Frampton, Jordan Belson, George and Mike Kuchar, Gunvor Nelson; "Art in Cinema" series (run by Frank Stauffacher until 1954) gave doorway to visibility for experimental filmmakers; Canyon Cinema (1961) only lasted 5 years as exhibition; Bruce Conner and others making films instead; Amos Vogel and Cinema 16 in New York; Met Broughton at Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh in early 70s through Sally Dixon; photographed him and made stills from his films; Broughton's relationships with Jonas Mekas, Stan Brakhage; Oskar Fischinger and James Broughton as grandfathers of West Coast experimental film, Maya Deren as grandmother; Willard Maas on East Coast; Broughton's fun, snappy poetry and films as contrast with East Coast films; Broughton's films well received in Europe; praise by Cocteau for The Pleasure Garden; The Bed and Dreamwood as his favorite films of Broughton; Broughton's role in Anthology Film Archives, and its Essential Cinema Collection; The Legion of Decency, U.S. Post Office and film censorship before 1974; Producing Erogeny (1976), which would have been censored because of nudity in the 1960s, and impossible to get funded by the NEA in later years.; James as a "pixie" who had somehow landed on earth.
Robert Haller is Director of Collections at Anthology Film Archives in New York City, where he has worked since 1980. He knew James Broughton well, and as director of Pittsburgh Film Makers, Inc., he produced Broughton's poetic film Erogeny (1976). Haller has written and lectured widely about experimental and avant garde film, and made a DVD with Bruce Posner, Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film. - Local Identifier:
- W146_HallerR_201006
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/bigjoy/id/21
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Robert Haller, interviewed by Stephen Silha and Eric Slade, June 2010, Big Joy Collection. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 01:06:51
- Original Collection:
- Big Joy Collection
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
