Birth:
1922 (not verified)

Death:
2000

Official Website:
None

Major Works:
Geometrics of the Kabbalah (1975)
Lace of Summer (1973)
River-Ghost. Hudson River Diary Book: IV (1973)
Wintergarden. Hudson River Diary Book: III (1973)
September Express (1973)
An Experiment in Meditation (1971)
The Tattooed Man (1969)
Trap Dance (1968)
Third Eye Butterfly (1968)
Cayuga Run. Hudson River Diary: Book I (1967)
Shaman, a Tapestry for Sorcerers (1967)
Sing Lotus (1966)
Peyote Queen (1965)
Aristotle (1965)
Deep in the Mirror Imbedded (1965)
Charlotte Moorman’s Avant-Garde Festival #9 (1965)
Malevich at the Guggenheim (1965)
Ives House-Woodstock (1965)
The Recurring Dream (1965)
Divinations (1964)
Newsreel: Jonas in the Brig (1964)
The Color of Ritual, the Color of Thought (1964-1967)
Goodbye in the Mirror (1964)
Journey Around a Zero (1963)
A Reticule of Love (1963)

Years Working:
1964 — 1965

Notes:
Was a poet before she became a filmmaker. Some of her published books of poetry are Alleh Lulleh Cockatoo and Twilight Massacre.

In 2000, her 1964 film Divinations was the recipient of the New York Women in Film & Television‘s Women’s Film Preservation Fund. The grant was awarded to the Anthology Film Archives.

The birth date listed above was taken from the Treasures IV: American Avant-Garde Film, 1947-1986 DVD liner notes. However, they question their own year and neither further verification nor non-verification can be found at this time.

Online Resources:
IMDB: Filmography
Wikipedia: Bio
Film-makers’ Cooperative: Complete filmography for rental
Canyon Cinema: Partial filmography for rental

Film Books About Storm de Hirsch:
An Introduction to the American Underground Film by Sheldon Renan (E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York, 1967) (Published simultaneously in Canada by Clarke, Irwin and Company, Limited, Toronto and Vancouver) (p. 32, 102.)

Video:
None

Birth:
1944 (New Haven, Connecticut)

Official Website:
None

Major Works:
Dialogues (2009)
Noli Me Tangere/Don’t Touch Me (1983)
The Box Theory (1984)
On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and its Relation to the Unconscious or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed? (1979)
Diploteratology (1978)
New Improved Institutional Quality: In the Environment of Liquids and Nasals a Parasitic Vowel Sometimes Develops (1976)
Wide Angle Saxon (1975)
No Sir, Orison (1975)
A Film of Their 1973 Spring Tour Commissioned by Christian World Liberation Front of Berkeley California (1974)
Thank You Jesus for the Eternal Present (1973)
What’s Wrong With This Picture? 2 (1972)
What’s Wrong With This Picture? 1 (1971)
Remedial Reading Comprehension (1970)
Baroque Slippages (1969)
Institutional Quality (1969)
The Film That Rises to the Surface of Clarified Butter (1968)
Diploteratology (1967)
Bardo Follies (1967)
Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc. (1965-66)
This Film will be Interrupted After 11 Minutes by a Commercial (1965)
Adjacent Yes, But Simultaneous? (1965)
Not a Case of Lateral Displacement (1965)
Leopard Skin (1964-65)
Fleming Faloon (1963)
Richard Kraft at the Playboy Club (1963)
Are Era (1962)
Two Pieces for the Precarious Life (1961)
Faulty Pronoun Reference, Comparison and Punctuation of the Restrictive or Non-Restrictive Element (1961)
A Stringent Prediction at the Early Hermaphroditic Stage (1961)

Years Working:
1962 — 1966

Notes:
Originally born as George Landow, but changed his name to Owen Land sometime in the late ’70s for, as of now, unknown reasons. “Owen Land” is a partial anagram of “George Landow.”

Studied art at Pratt Institute, Art Student’s League of New York and the New York Academy of Art. Earned an MFA in painting at New York Academy of Art.

Is considered to be one of the first “Structuralist” filmmakers before that movement even began. Land eventually rejected structuralism and instead focused his filmmaking on comedy that typically played with language.

Online Resources:
IMDB: Filmography
Wikipedia: Bio
Film-makers’ Cooperative: Films for rental
Canyon Cinema: Films for rental
Fred Camper: Links to writing by Camper
Vimeo: Documentary on making of Dialogues

Film Books About Owen Land:
An Introduction to the American Underground Film by Sheldon Renan (E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York, 1967) (Published simultaneously in Canada by Clarke, Irwin and Company, Limited, Toronto and Vancouver) (pp. 161-163.)

Video:
LAFF: Owen Land Q&A Part 1 – June 29, 2009



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

Birth: May 15, 1939 (Los Angeles, California)

Official Website: BarbaraHammer.com

Major Works: A Horse Is Not a Metaphor (2008)
Diving Women of Jeju-do (2007)
Lover/Other (2006)
Resisting Paradise (2003)
My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities (2001)
History Lessons (2000)
Devotion, A Film About Ogawa Productions (2000)
The Female Closet (1998)
Blue Film No. 6: Love Is Where You Find It (1998)
Tender Fictions (1995)
Out in South Africa (1994)
Shirley Temple and Me (1993)
Save Sex (1993)
Nitrate Kisses (1992)
Vital Signs (1991)
Dr. Watson’s X-Rays (1991)
Sanctus (1990)
Still Point (1989)
Endangered (1988)
Two Bad Daughters (1988)
T.V. Tart (1988)
History of the World According to a Lesbian (1988)
Bedtime Stories, I, II, III (1988)
Place Mattes (1987)
No No Nooky T.V. (1987)
Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of Aids (1986)
Optic Nerve (1985)
Hot Flash (1985)
Would You Like to Meet Your Neighbor? A New York Subway Tape (1985)
Doll House (1984)
Tourist (1984)
Parisian Blinds (1984)
Pearl Diver (1984)
Bent Time (1983)
Stone Circles (1983)
New York Loft (1983)
See What You Hear What You See (1983)
Pond and Waterfall (1982)
Audience (1982)
Sync Touch (1981)
Pools (1981)
Arequipa (1981)
Pictures for Barbara (1981)
The Lesbos Film (1981)
Our Trip (1980)
Machu Piccu (1980)
Bamboo Xerox (1980)
Available Space (1979)
Dream Age (1979)
Double Strength (1978)
Haircut (1978)
Eggs (1978)
Sappho (1978)
Home (1978)
The Great Goddess (1977)
Multiple Orgasm (1976)
Women I Love (1976)
Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles (1976)
Moon Goddess (1976)
Superdyke Meets Madame X (1976)
Jane Brakhage (1975)
Psychosynthesis (1975)
“X” (1975)
Superdyke (1975)
Dyketactics (1974)
Menses (1974)
Women’s Rites or Truth Is the Daughter of Time (1974)
Sisters! (1974)
A Gay Day (1973)
I Was/I Am (1973)
Yellow Hammer (1973)
Song of the Klinking Kup (1973)
A Brakhage Song (1972)
Traveling (1970)
Marie and Me (1970)
Elegy (1970)
Barbara Ward Will Never Die (1968)
Schizy (1968)

Notes: Received a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology at University of California at Los Angeles. Received two Master’s Degrees from San Francisco State University in English literature and film.

A pioneer in the field of queer cinema, working in documentary and experimental film.

Has written a memoir entitled HAMMER!: Making Movies Out of Sex and Life.

Other Resources: IMDB: Partial Filmography
Wikipedia: Bio
Film-makers’ Cooperative: Films for rental
Canyon Cinema: Films for rental
Women Make Movies: Profile
Bright Lights Film Journal: Profile
BOMB Magazine: Interview
Vimeo: Videos

Video: Talking about her book HAMMER!

Birth: 1937 (St. Louis, Missouri)

Official Website: Art of the Palazzolo’s

Major Works: Rita on the Ropes (2002)
Down Clark Street (2000)
I Married a Munchkin (1994)
Thinking of Her (1993)
Vatican World (1992)
Chicago Nazis (1990)
Added Lessons (1988)
Lilly’s World of Wax (1987)
At Maxwell Street (1984)
Caligari’s Cure (1982)
Anderson/Loosely (1981)
It’s This Way at Deel Ford (1980)
Nonna (1979)
Bean’s Bachelor Party (1979)
Labor Day, East Chicago (1979)
I Was a Contestant at Mother’s Wet T-Shirt Contest (1978)
Marquette Park II (1978)
Costumes on Review (1976)
Gay for a Day (1976)
Marquette Park I (1976)
Sneakin’ and Peekin’ (1976)
Enjoy Yourself: It’s Later Than You Think (1974)
Jerry’s (1974)
Love It/Leave It (1973)
Hot Nasty (1972)
Ricky and Rocky (1971)
Your Astronauts (1970)
Campaign (1968)
He (1967)
Tattooed Lady of Riverview (1967)
The Bride Stripped Bare (1967)
America’s in Real Trouble (1967)
O (1967)
Venus Adonis (1966)

Notes: Is also a painter and a photographer.

Studied at the John and Mable Ringling School of Art and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In the ’60s, was a member of the “Chicago Underground,” a collection of about 10 filmmakers.

Currently teaches at Columbia College in Chicago.

Four Films By Tom Palazzolo is a DVD compilation available from Emphasis Entertainment.

Other Resources: IMDB: Partial Filmography
Film-makers’ Cooperative: Films for rental
Canyon Cinema: Films for rental
Light Millenium: Profile

Video: None

Birth:
May 25, 1909 (New York City, New York)

Death:
Dec. 29, 1970 (Brooklyn)

Official Website:
None

Major Works:
Excursion (1968)
Watts With Eggs (1967)
Lights (1966)
Sidewalks (1966)
Andy Warhol (1965)
Go! Go! Go! (1964)
Wrestling (1964)
Drips in Strips (1963)
Notebook (1962)
Moonplay (1962)
Mood Mondrian (1962)
Bagatelle for Willard Maas (1961)
Arabesque for Kenneth Anger (1961)
Eye Music in Red Major (1961)
The Gravediggers from Guadix (1960)
Faucet (1960– ) (unfinished)
Dwightiana (1959)
Glimpse of the Garden (1957)
Hurry! Hurry! (1957)
Zenscapes (1957)
Visual Variations on Noguchi (1945)

Years Working:
1945
1957 — 1959
1961 — 1965

Notes:
Married poet and filmmaker Willard Maas in 1931. They had a very contentious marriage whose legendary fights inspired mutual friend Edward Albee to write the play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Mentor and muse to many male avant-garde filmmakers of the 1960s, such as Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage, Jonas Mekas and Andy Warhol.

Was also a painter.

Acted in two Andy Warhol films: Chelsea Girls and The Life of Juanita Castro.

Was the subject of a 2007 documentary, Notes On Marie Menken, directed by Martina Kudlacek.

Other Resources:
IMDB: Partial Filmography
Film-makers’ Cooperative: Films for rental
Wikipedia: Biography
Robert Haller: Partial filmography

Film Books About Marie Menken:
An Introduction to the American Underground Film by Sheldon Renan (E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York, 1967) (Published simultaneously in Canada by Clarke, Irwin and Company, Limited, Toronto and Vancouver) (pp. 170-171, 172.)

Video:
None

Birth: Unknown

Official Website: Tessa Hughes-Freeland

Major Works: Watch Out! (2007)
Nymphomania (1994)
Dirty (1993)
Joker (1993)
Playboy Voodoo (1991)
Jane Gone (1987)
Rat Trap (1986)
Rhonda Goes to Hollywood (1985)
Baby Doll (1982)
Play Boy (1981)

Notes: Was a member of the Cinema of Transgression film movement in NYC in the ’90s that was founded by filmmaker Nick Zedd.

Co-founded and ran with Ela Troyano the New York Film Festival Downtown. It ran from 1984 to 1990.

Was a journalist for the East Village Eye alternative newspaper.

Is interviewed in the book Deathtripping, Jack Sargeant’s history of the Cinema of Transgression movement.

Other Resources: IMDB: Film Credits Other Than Director
Film-makers’ Cooperative: Films for rental

Video: None

Birth: Unknown

Official Website: None

Major Works: Tin Woodman’s Home Movie #2 (co-directed with Lee Lynch) (2009)
On This Day (2008)
Kalendar (2008)
Hand Eye Coordination (2002)
Private Movie (2000)
Removed (1999)
Mala Leche (1998)
Leche (1998)

Notes: Earned her undergrad degree at Columbia University. Earned her MFA at Cal Arts.

Before turning to filmmaking was a private chef for Malcolm Forbes, Calvin Klein and Gloria Vanderbilt.

Won a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

While living and making films in the Ukraine in 2008, she also toured the country in a van with a projector to set up impromptu local screenings in bars, basements and other out-of-the-way places.

Other Resources: IMDB: Profile
Bad Lit: Posts
Canyon Cinema: Films
Filmmaker Magazine: Profile
ArtVoice: Profile
Fulbright Ukraine: Autobio piece

Video: None

Birth: Unknown

Official Website: Life of a Star

Major Works: Viva (2006)
A Visit from the Incubus (2001)
The Hypnotist (2001)
The Lady Cat (2001)
Fairy Ballet (1998)
Three Examples of Myself as Queen (1994)

Notes: Has a BA in art from UCLA and an MFA in art and film from CalArts.

Has also produced and directed several full-length stage musicals.

Other Resources: IMDB: Profile
Wikipedia: Bio and Profile
Fangoria: Interview
Alternative Film Guide: Interview
Bijou Flix: Interview

Video: Pretty Cool People interview:

Birth: July 20, 1943 (Milwaukee, WI)

Official Website: None

Major Works: Hurry Up Henrietta (2009)
Waterfront Follies (2008)
Shadow (2007)
Precarious Garden (2004)
Passage (2003)
This Side of Paradise (1991)
Rear Window (1986/1991)
Side/Walk/Shuttle (1991)
Signal – Germany on the Air (1982-1985)
Untitled: Part One, 1981 (1981) (revised 1986)
Mirage (1981)
Untitled (1977)
Table (1976)
Behind the Scenes (1975)
Eureka (1974)
Shift (1972-1974)
Still (1969-1971)
History (1970)
Serene Velocity (1970)
Field (1970)
Field (Long version) (1970)
Transparency (1969)
Reverberation (1969) (With Andrew Noren and Margaret Lamarre)
Wait (1968)
Morning (1968)

Notes: One of the major contributors to the structuralist film movement of the ’70s.

On the faculty of the San Francisco Art Institute.

1990: Recipient of AFI’s Maya Deren Independent Film and Video Artists Award.

Other Resources: IMDB: Profile
Wikipedia: Bio and Profile
Canyon Cinema: Filmography
Fred Camper: Resources
The Auteurs: Interview

Video: None