A Critical Cinema 5: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers (Critical Cinema)

A Critical Cinema 5 is the fifth volume in Scott MacDonald's Critical Cinema series, the most extensive, in-depth exploration of independent cinema available in English. In this new set of interviews, MacDonald engages filmmakers in detailed discussions of their films and of the personal experiences and political and theoretical currents that have shaped their work. The interviews are arranged to express the remarkable diversity of modern independent cinema and the interactive community of filmmakers that has dedicated itself to producing forms of cinema that critique conventional media. V. 1. Hollis Frampton -- Larry Gottheim -- Robert Huot -- Taka Iimura -- Carolee Schneemann -- Tom Chomont -- J.j. Murphy -- Vivienne Dick -- Beth B And Scott B -- John Waters -- Bruce Conner -- Robert Nelson -- Babette Mangolte -- George Kuchar -- Diana Barrie -- Manuel Delanda -- Morgan Fisher -- V. 2. Robert Breer -- Michael Snow -- Jonas Mekas -- Bruce Baillie -- Yoko Ono -- Anthony Mccall -- Andrew Noren -- Anne Robertson -- James Benning -- Lizzie Borden -- Ross Mcelwee -- Su Friedrich -- Anne Severson (on Near The Big Chakra) -- Laura Mulvey (on Riddles Of The Sphinx) -- Yvonne Rainer (on Privilege) -- Trinh T. Minh-ha -- Godfrey Reggio -- Peter Watkins -- V. 3. Amos Vogel -- William Greaves -- Jordan Belson (and Collaborator Stephen Beck) -- Arthur Peleshian -- Charles Burnett -- Hara Kazuo -- At The Flaherty: Peter Watkins, Ken Jacobs, Nick Deocampo, Mani Kaul, Craig Baldwin -- Gunvor Nelson -- Christine Choy -- Rose Lowder -- Peter Hutton -- Valie Export -- Patrick Bokanowski -- Yervant Gianikian And Angela Ricci Lucchi -- Elias Merhige -- Aline Mere -- Cauleen Smith -- John Porter -- Raphael Montanez Ortiz -- Martin Arnold -- Ken And Flo Jacobs -- Sally Potter -- V. 4. P. Adams Sitney -- Stan Brakhage -- Jill Godmillow (and Harun Farocki) -- Peter Kubelka (on Unsere Afrikareise (our Trip To Africa) ) -- Jim Mcbride (on David Holzman's Diary) -- Abigail Child -- Chuck Workman -- Chantal Akerman (on D'est, Sud, And De L'autre Côté) -- Laurence Brose (on De Profundis) -- Peter Forgács -- Shirin Neshat -- Ellen Spiro -- V. 5. Kenneth Anger -- Tony Conrad -- Nathaniel Dorsky (and Jerome Hiler) -- Peggy Ahwesh -- Alan Berliner -- Robb Moss -- Phil Solomon -- James Benning -- J. Leighton Pierce -- Matthias Müller -- Sharon Lockhart -- Jennifer Todd Reeves -- Shiho Kano -- Ernie Gehr. Scott Macdonald. Includes Bibliographical Reference And Indexes. Includes Filmographies. The interviews explore the careers of Robert Breer, Trinh T. Minh-ha, James Benning, Su Friedrich, and Godfrey Reggio. Yoko Ono discusses her cinematic collaboration with John Lennon, Michael Snow talks about his music and films, Anne Robertson describes her cinematic diaries, Jonas Mekas and Bruce Baillie recall the New York and California avant-garde film culture. The selection has a particularly strong group of women filmmakers, including Yvonne Rainer, Laura Mulvey, and Lizzie Borden. Other notable artists are Anthony McCall, Andrew Noren, Ross McElwee, Anne Severson, and Peter Watkins In the introductions to earlier volumes of the Critical Cinema project, I have focused on the "critical" function of the films that instigate my interviewing: their creation of an evolving critique of conventional media and the audience that has developed for it, their potentially "critical" educational function in expanding the awareness of teachers and students about the pedagogical opportunities of cinema. This sequel to "A Critical Cinema offers a new collection of interviews with independent filmmakers that is a feast for film fans and film historians. Scott MacDonald reveals the sophisticated thinking of these artists regarding film, politics, and contemporary gender issues