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The oeuvre of the late avant-garde filmmaker and visual artist Jordan Belson (1926–2011), like most good art, defies any easy description and interpretation. “I’ve come to have a complete mistrust of words,” Belson remarked, saying that, “it’s a glorious thing if you don’t expect an explanation.”
The first of three essays written by noted historian, author, and educator Karl Cohen to bring awareness to the present state of indie animated shorts and to stimulate a discussion that might lead to improvements; we start with a discussion of the ways these shorts have reached the public since the decline of theatrical cartoons.
Philip Kaufman calls his 1983 masterpiece ‘probably the longest movie ever made without a plot.’ Here the director discusses how film fibs, demons, and labia made ‘The Right Stuff’ just right.
Smith's collections of folk music, Indigenous art, and occult ephemera inspired generations of artists.
Harry Smith lives on as a spirit through his yearly film showings at Anthology Film Archive. As hierophant, he reminded his devotees there were alternative paths outside the prevailing critical discourse, the museums, and the commercial art world.