Eyes Upside Down: Visionary Filmmakers And The Heritage Of Emerson: Visionary Filmmakers And The Heritage Of Emerson

Sitney analyzes in detail the work of eleven American avant-garde filmmakers as heirs to the aesthetics of exhilaration and innovative vision articulated by Ralph Waldo Emerson and explored by John Cage, Charles Olson and Gertrude Stein. The films discussed span the sixty years since the Second World War. With three chapters each devoted to Stan Brakhage and Robert Beavers, two each to Hollis Frampton and Jonas Mekas, and single chapters on Marie Menken, Ian Hugo, Andrew Noren, Warren Sonbert, Su Friedrich, Ernie Gehr, and Abigail Child, Eyes Upside Down is the fruit of Sitney's lifelong study of visionary aspirations in the American avant-garde cinema. Contents 15 Introduction: Emersonian Poetics 19 1 Marie Menken and the Somatic Camera 37 2 Ian Hugo and Superimposition 64 3 Stan Brakhage’s Autobiography as a Cinematic Sequence 86 4 Jonas Mekas and the Diary Film 99 5 Hollis Frampton and the Specter of Narrative 114 6 Robert Beavers’s Winged Distance/Sightless Measure: The Cycle of the Ephebe 139 7 Beavers’s Second Cycle: The Past in the Present—the Present in the Past 161 8 Andrew Noren and the Open-Ended Cinematic Sequence 186 9 Ernie Gehr and the Axis of Primary Thought 213 10 Warren Sonbert’s Movements in a Concerto 236 11 Brakhage and the Tales of the Tribes 259 12 Frampton’s Magellan 275 13 Abigail Child: Textual Self-Reliance 287 14 Su Friedrich: “Giving Birth to Myself ” 312 15 Brakhage: Meditative Cinema 337 16 Beavers’s Third Cycle: The Theater of Gesture 365 17 Mekas’s Retrospection 388 Conclusion: Perfect Exhilaration 408 Appendix: Chronology of Films 417 Index 425 A 425 B 425 C 427 D 427 E 428 F 428 G 429 H 429 I 430 J 430 K 430 L 430 M 430 N 431 O 431 P 432 R 432 S 432 T 433 V 433 W 433 Z 433 MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict Contents 15 Introduction: Emersonian Poetics 19 1 Marie Menken and the Somatic Camera 37 2 Ian Hugo and Superimposition 64 3 Stan Brakhage’s Autobiography as a Cinematic Sequence 86 4 Jonas Mekas and the Diary Film 99 5 Hollis Frampton and the Specter of Narrative 114 6 Robert Beavers’s Winged Distance/Sightless Measure: The Cycle of the Ephebe 139 7 Beavers’s Second Cycle: The Past in the Present—the Present in the Past 161 8 Andrew Noren and the Open-Ended Cinematic Sequence 186 9 Ernie Gehr and the Axis of Primary Thought 213 10 Warren Sonbert’s Movements in a Concerto 236 11 Brakhage and the Tales of the Tribes 259 12 Frampton’s Magellan 275 13 Abigail Child: Textual Self-Reliance 287 14 Su Friedrich: “Giving Birth to Myself ” 312 15 Brakhage: Meditative Cinema 337 16 Beavers’s Third Cycle: The Theater of Gesture 365 17 Mekas’s Retrospection 388 Conclusion: Perfect Exhilaration 408 Appendix: Chronology of Films 417 Index 425 A 425 B 425 C 427 D 427 E 428 F 428 G 429 H 429 I 430 J 430 K 430 L 430 M 430 N 431 O 431 P 432 R 432 S 432 T 433 V 433 W 433 Z 433 Contents......Page 15 Introduction: Emersonian Poetics......Page 19 1 Marie Menken and the Somatic Camera......Page 37 2 Ian Hugo and Superimposition......Page 64 3 Stan Brakhage’s Autobiography as a Cinematic Sequence......Page 86 4 Jonas Mekas and the Diary Film......Page 99 5 Hollis Frampton and the Specter of Narrative......Page 114 6 Robert Beavers’s Winged Distance/Sightless Measure: The Cycle of the Ephebe......Page 139 7 Beavers’s Second Cycle: The Past in the Present—the Present in the Past......Page 161 8 Andrew Noren and the Open-Ended Cinematic Sequence......Page 186 9 Ernie Gehr and the Axis of Primary Thought......Page 213 10 Warren Sonbert’s Movements in a Concerto......Page 236 11 Brakhage and the Tales of the Tribes......Page 259 12 Frampton’s Magellan......Page 275 13 Abigail Child: Textual Self-Reliance......Page 287 14 Su Friedrich: “Giving Birth to Myself ”......Page 312 15 Brakhage: Meditative Cinema......Page 337 16 Beavers’s Third Cycle: The Theater of Gesture......Page 365 17 Mekas’s Retrospection......Page 388 Conclusion: Perfect Exhilaration......Page 408 Appendix: Chronology of Films......Page 417 B......Page 425 D......Page 427 F......Page 428 H......Page 429 M......Page 430 O......Page 431 S......Page 432 Z......Page 433 "P. Adams Sitney analyzes in detail the work of eleven American avant-garde filmmakers as heirs to the aesthetics of exhilaration and innovative vision articulated by Ralph Waldo Emerson and explored by John Cage, Charles Olson, and Gertrude Stein. The films discussed span the sixty years since the Second World War. With three chapters each devoted to Stan Brakhage and Robert Beavers, two each to Hollis Frampton and Jonas Mekas, and single chapters on Marie Menken, Ian Hugo, Andrew Noren, Warren Sonbert, Su Friedrich, Ernie Gehr, and Abigail Child, Eyes Upside Down is the fruit of Sitney's lifelong study of visionary aspirations in the American avant-garde cinema."--Publisher's description
Sitney analyzes in detail the work of eleven American avant-garde filmmakers as heirs to the aesthetics of exhilaration and innovative vision articulated by Ralph Waldo Emerson and explored by John Cage, Charles Olson and Gertrude Stein. The films discussed span the sixty years since the Second World War. With three chapters each devoted to Stan Brakhage and Robert Beavers, two each to Hollis Frampton and Jonas Mekas, and single chapters on Marie Menken, Ian Hugo, Andrew Noren, Warren Sonbert, Su Friedrich, Ernie Gehr, and Abigail Child, Eyes Upside Down is the fruit of Sitney's lifelong study of visionary aspirations in the American avant-garde cinema. Introduction: Emersonian Poetics. 1. Marie Menken and the Somatic Camera. 2. Ian Hugo and Superimposition. 3. Stan Brakhage's Autobiography as a Cinematic Sequence. 4. Jonas Mekas and the Diary Film. 5. Hollis Frampton and the Spectre of Narrative. 6. Robert Beavers's Winged Distance/Sightless Measure: The Cycle of the Ephebe. 7. Beavers's Second Cycle: The Past in the Present - The Present in the Past. 8. Andrew Noren and the Open-Ended Cinematic Sequence. 9. Ernie Gehr and the Axis of Primary Thought. 10. Warren Sonbert's Movements in a Concerto. 11. Brakhage and the Tales of the Tribes. 12