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Rogers’s films have a strong emphasis on the visual that elevates the image; there are montages of style and organization instead of time sequence, and an interventionist manner. Mendelsohn, who worked with Rogers on Quarry, describes him as relaxed and intuitive behind the camera, always possessing an...
Rogers worked on three films that formed an autobiography. The first is Elephants: Fragments of an Argument (1973), a self portrait made up of family photographs and interviews with family and friends. Next is 226-1690 (1984), a film consisting of different messages left on Rogers’s answering...
Finally, the third part is a documentary (provisionally titled Windmill) about the community of Wainscott on Long Island where Rogers spent his summers. Rogers had devoted 14 years to the project, but Meiselas recalls how it often took a back seat to his teaching duties. She talks of releasing the...
Guzzetti describes Meiselas’s initial opposition to appearing in the film, saying that he and Dick argued that they had to get the viewer from one picture to another, and that the only real common thread between all of these pictures was the photographer who took them. Meiselas...
As those who knew him can attest, there was little divide between Dick Rogers the filmmaker and Dick Rogers the teacher. In his final days, Rogers continued to battle with cancer, and even taught full time until the end. In addition to teaching duties, Rogers served as the director of...