Chick Strand Tribute at Anthology

Loose Ends from therealeyedeal on Vimeo.

Let this serve as a gentle reminder:

Chick Strand Tribute!
September 14, 7:30pm, Anthology Film Archives

Flaherty NYC returns this September, commemorating the work of Chick Strand, whose work was featured at the 2009 Flaherty Seminar and who passed away this July at the age of 78 after battling cancer. Chick Strand is a seminal filmmaker who helped found Canyon Cinema alongside filmmaker Bruce Baillie when she was living and studying in Berkeley in the early 1960s. She was also a painter, photographer, and professor; she taught filmmaking for more than two decades at Occidental College in Los Angeles. For more information on the Flaherty NYC program click HERE.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with filmmaker, Hampshire professor, and Flaherty Trustee Bill Brand, filmmakers Barbara Hammer and Lynne Sachs, and other friends of Chick Strand.

Films and videos to be screened:

Anselmo and the Women (1986, 16mm, 35min, Mexico)

One of a series of films about Anselmo, a Mexican street musician, and his life-long struggle to make a good life for his children. This film focuses on his relationship with his wife Adela and his mistress, Cruz, and theirs with him.

Mosori Monika (1970, 16mm, 20min, Venezuela)

The relationship between the Warao Indians and the Spanish Franciscan missionaries sent to "civilize" them is simple on the surface, but actually manifested in a complex change of techniques, values and life style which have indelibly altered the Warao vision of life.

Fake Fruit (1986, 16mm, 22min, Mexico)

An intimate documentary about young women who make papier mache fruit and vegetables in a small factory in Mexico, foucssing on the color, music, movement, and the constant gossip that reveals what the young women think about men.

The cinetrix finally saw Strand's Soft Fiction at the Flaherty this summer, and it was a revelation. Her Loose Ends is embedded above.

Also!

Mark McElhatten, curator of Walking Picture Palace and co-curator and founder of Views from the Avant-Garde, will also be doing a tribute to Chick Strand in New York City, this October .
A Tribute to Chick Strand (1931-2009) Part One
(curated by Mark McElhatten and Gavin Smith)
October 3 at 3:00pm
New York Film Festival, Views from the Avant-Garde, Walter Reade Theater
* Angel Blue Sweet Wings (1966, 4min)
* Cartoon Le Mousse (1979, 15min)
* Kristallnacht (1979, 7min)
* Loose Ends (1979, 25min)
* Fake Fruit Factory (1986, 22min)

A Tribute to Chick Strand (1931-2009) Part Two
(curated by Mark McElhatten)
October 6 at 6:30pm
Walking Picture Palace, Anthology Film Archives
* Waterfall (1967, 3min)
* Cosas de mi Vida (1976, 25min)
* Soft Fiction (1979, 54min)
* Elasticity (1976, 22min)