Word: conner
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...Arguably the greatest filmmaker to die last year, Bruce Conner, 74, was a full-service artist, creating assemblages, working in photography and drawing, and creating seminal works in the canon of truly independent cinema. His 1958 A Movie (comprising 12 minutes of found footage subversively edited into a meditation on sex and death) and the 1962 Cosmic Ray (with a stripper dancing to Ray Charles' What'd I Say) birthed a subgenre of avant-garde films and inspired the '60s wave of multimedia art in concert halls and discos. (Conner also designed light shows at San Francisco's Avalon Ballroom...
...change this, Secretary-designate Vilsack? Your first step should be to appoint impartial officials who will challenge the USDA’s culture of complicity. The current Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, Charles F. Conner, is the former president of the Corn Refiners Association, and the agency’s Chief of Staff is the former chief lobbyist for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. As long as agency jobs serve as sabbaticals for industry lobbyists, the USDA will halt reforms...
...experience. “Spatially, you can torque the film in a muscular way—contract, expand, release—in a way that’s in tune with the psyche.” Dorsky says, referring to silent films. Unlike his influences Dziga Vertov and Bruce Conner, whose work veered into social and political commentary, Dorsky seems more concerned with the level to which the individual viewer participates in the film’s meaning. Dorsky says, “Hopefully, if it’s successful, subject matter, screen, and the audience aren?...
...contemporary music video. To assert that the man behind “Cosmic Ray” was interested in searching for new means of delivering popular music into the home, however, is reductive to say the least.Last month, the Harvard Film Archive presented a series of films from Conner that included “Cosmic Ray” in its program. Conner, who began his career as a figure in Beat circles in San Francisco in the mid-1950s, was active until his death earlier this year and remains an enigmatic icon in 20th century American art. Though he worked...
...Matt Curtis drills Dartmouth QB Alex Jenny on the play. Jenny's helped off the field and freshman Conner Kempe comes in to replace...