In the late ’50s and early ’60s, documentarian Manfred Kirchheimer and his frequent collaborator Walter Hess prowled New York City for a planned film about the proliferation of high-rise buildings in a changing city. While that project, unlike Kirchheimer’s well-known NYC-centric features like “Claw” (also made alongside Hess) and the seminal “Stations of the Elevated,” never got off the ground, it did ultimately spawn what would become “Free Time.”
Based on the black-and-white footage the pair gathered decades ago, the film has only recently been assembled into a 61-minute project — it celebrated its world premiere at last year’s New York Film Festival, over 60 years before it was first begun — and is now gearing up for a limited release. It will start, appropriately enough, at New York City’s own Film Forum.
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Based on the black-and-white footage the pair gathered decades ago, the film has only recently been assembled into a 61-minute project — it celebrated its world premiere at last year’s New York Film Festival, over 60 years before it was first begun — and is now gearing up for a limited release. It will start, appropriately enough, at New York City’s own Film Forum.
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- 3/13/2020
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
In December 1966, the Canyon Cinema Cooperative in San Francisco, California published their first Catalogue of experimental and avant-garde films to rent. This was four years after the Film-Makers’ Cooperative had begun distributing underground films in New York City.
Canyon first listed films to rent in the November ’66 edition of their News newsletter, then published the catalog separately one month later. In the book Canyon Cinema, Scott MacDonald notes that the News listed just 31 filmmakers with films. Only six of them had multiple films listed; while the rest listed just a single film each.
The first standalone catalogue expanded on that first listing of filmmakers, but is still a modest publication at just sixteen pages, plus the covers. The catalogue includes 45 filmmakers — some are listed as pairs — and many more filmmakers have multiple films listed. For example, Larry Jordan has eight films listed, Robert Nelson six and Bruce Baillie four.
There...
Canyon first listed films to rent in the November ’66 edition of their News newsletter, then published the catalog separately one month later. In the book Canyon Cinema, Scott MacDonald notes that the News listed just 31 filmmakers with films. Only six of them had multiple films listed; while the rest listed just a single film each.
The first standalone catalogue expanded on that first listing of filmmakers, but is still a modest publication at just sixteen pages, plus the covers. The catalogue includes 45 filmmakers — some are listed as pairs — and many more filmmakers have multiple films listed. For example, Larry Jordan has eight films listed, Robert Nelson six and Bruce Baillie four.
There...
- 5/6/2018
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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