Chick Strand
Birth: Dec. 3, 1931
Death: July 11, 2009
Official Website: None
Major Works: Fake Fruit Factory (1986)
Coming Up for Air (1986)
By the Lake (1986)
Artificial Paradise (1986)
Anselmo and the Women (1986)
Soft Fiction (1979)
Loose Ends (1979)
Kristallnacht (1979)
Fever Dream (1979)
Cartoon le Mousse (1979)
Mujer de Milfuegos (Woman of a Thousand Fires) (1976)
Guacamole (1976)
Elasticity (1976)
Cosas de Mi Vida (1976)
Mosori Monika (1970)
Waterfall (1967)
Anselmo (1967)
Angel Blue Sweet Wings (1966)
Notes: “Chick” is a nickname given to Strand by her father. Her real first name is Mildred.
Helped co-found Canyon Cinema with Bruce Baillie and edited three issues of the organization’s Cinemanews newsletter.
Studied anthropology at UC Berkeley and ethnography at UCLA. She also taught filmmaking for over 30 years at Occidental College.
1996: Recipient of AFI’s Maya Deren Independent Film and Video Artists Award.
Other Resources: IMDB: Partial Filmography
Wikipedia: Bio
Canyon Cinema: Films for rental
LA Weekly: Profile
The Portland Mercury: Profile
Bad Lit: Obituary
Video: None
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