Brett Kashmere

LUTHER PRICE IN SAN FRANCISCO:
A REMEMBRANCE

2024

Edited by Brett Kashmere and Steve Polta

Published by San Francisco Cinematheque and Canyon Cinema Foundation, Luther Price in San Francisco: A Remembrance is a visually oriented zine focusing on the renowned filmmakers’ relationship to San Francisco Bay Area film culture. Luther Price in San Francisco features brief oral history reflections, film stills, never-before-published photos of Price’s 1992 Meat performance and the equally infamous performance Clown Part II: Scary Transformation (1994), scanned ephemera from Cinematheque’s archives, images of Price’s astonishing hand-collaged film cans (courtesy of Canyon Cinema) and reprints of texts by Michael Wallin and Price himself.

Contributors: Steve Anker, Brett Kashmere, Steve Polta, Luther Price, Ken Paul Rosenthal, David Sherman & Rebecca Barten/Total Mobile Home, Michael Wallin

Designed by India Nemer

8.5 x 8.5 inches
38 pages

Craig Baldwin: AVANT TO LIVE!

2023

Edited by Brett Kashmere and Steve Polta

Nearly five years in the making and clocking in at 508 pages, Craig Baldwin: Avant to Live! documents the life and work of acclaimed underground filmmaker/curator and Bay Area countercultural legend CRAIG BALDWIN (b. Oakland CA, 1952), an inspiring figure in contemporary media arts. Meticulously detailed, with contributions from over 50 writers, artists, illustrators, and ideologues, Avant to Live! is the first critical text to examine the artist’s filmmaking career while also examining the cultural impact of Baldwin’s Other Cinema curatorial project as well as his impact on generations of media makers.

AS A FILMMAKER, Baldwin’s works represent a radical fusion of form and content. Formally, his films are constructed largely from audiovisual material appropriated from pre-existing films. In this, they represent a radical stance toward media culture as a participatory field. As an artist, Baldwin engages with mainstream media as an adversary, using its languages in ironic opposition. In this way he talks back to corporately produced media and creates inspiring, wildly imaginative works which profoundly challenge the nature of one-way media consumption.

AS A CURATOR, Baldwin is known for Other Cinema, an extensive and hugely influential series of film/video programs he has personally organized in San Francisco since the late 1980s. Like his films, Baldwin’s Other Cinema represents a radically expanded approach to film exhibition, media consumption, and cultural engagement in which ephemeral forms of film history coexist alongside expanded cinema performance, underground/experimental film screenings, speculative lecture presentations, in-person artists, and more.

Contributors: Luisela Alvaray, Craig Baldwin, Irene Borger, Bryan Boyce, Stephen Broomer, Bill Brown, Anthony Buchanan, Joanna Byrne, Kristin Cato, Chris Chang, David Cox, Bill Daniel, Joan d’Arc, Manohla Dargis, Tom Day, Jesse Drew, Adam Dziesinski, Bradley Eros, Gerry Fialka, Adrianne Finelli, Kelly Gallagher, Max Goldberg, Sam Green, Molly Hankwitz, Joshua Leon Harper, Mike Hoolboom, Alex Johnston, Brett Kashmere John Klacsmann, Caroline Koebel, Liz Kotz, Jesse Lerner, Chip Lord, Patrick Macias, Scott MacKenzie, Jesse Malmed, Dolissa Medina, Peggy Nelson, Steve Polta, Rick Prelinger, Vanessa Renwick, Jeremy Rourke, Catherine Russell, Lynne Sachs, Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa, Keivan Khademi Shamami, Jeffrey Skoller, Soda_Jerk, Valerie Soe, Kathleen Tyner, Federico Windhausen, Michael Zryd

Designer: Vivian Sming, Sming Sming Books
Project Archivists: Courtney Fellion & Megan Needels

Published by: San Francisco Cinematheque & INCITE: Journal of Experimental Media

8 x 10 inches
508 pages
Smyth-sewn softcover

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CANYON CINEMA DISCOVERED
EXHIBITION CATALOG

2022

Edited by Brett Kashmere and Topiary Landberg

Essays by: Aaditya Aggarwal, Juan Carlos Kase, Chrystel Oloukoï, Ekin Pinar

Designed by Helen Shewolfe Tseng
Additional artwork by Léopold Lambert

Printed in Emeryville, California by Coast Litho
Edition of 400

6.75 x 9.5 inches
116 pages

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CANYON CInemazine #7:
Dear Folks: NOTES AND LETTERS FROM BRUCE BAILLIE

2020/2021

Edited by Courtney Fellion, Max Goldberg, Brett Kashmere, and Seth Mitter

This issue of Canyon Cinemazine is dedicated to Canyon’s founding filmmaker, Bruce Baillie, who died in April 2020 at his home on Camano Island; nearly 60 years after first welcoming friends and neighbors to a night of backyard cinema in Canyon, California.

Collected here are some of Baillie’s many dispatches to and about Canyon Cinema, ranging from a 1962 announcement co-signed with Chick Strand to voicemail messages left on the Canyon office answering machine in the last years of his life. The bulk of this material derives from the Canyon Cinemanews, which began in 1962 as a newsletter to solicit and circulate “fugitive information” related to a fledgling independent film movement. Years before Canyon was formally organized as a distribution cooperative, the participatory pages of the Cinemanews demonstrated that there was such a community of filmmakers to be incorporated.

This publication has been generously supported by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation and The Friends of Canyon Cinema.

Designed by Helen Shewolfe Tseng

Printed by Newspaper Club
Edition of 400

Tabloid newspaper
11.25 x 14.75 inches
64 pages

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STRANGE CODES:
THE FILMS OF ARTHUR LIPSETT

In Progress

Edited by Chris Gehman, Brett Kashmere, and Amelia Does 

An artist whose biography has often eclipsed the reputation of his art, Arthur Lipsett (1936-86) was an anomaly: a radically experimental filmmaker whose films were created under the auspices of a large state bureaucracy, the National Film Board of Canada. The remarkable and challenging films that Lipsett made at the NFB between 1961 and 1970 were initially received with enthusiasm, particularly after his first self-directed project, Very Nice, Very Nice, was nominated for an Academy Award. In particular, Lipsett's unusual approach to sound-image relationships lent his early films a distinctive quality – borrowing a method from animation, he would create soundtrack first, often working from audio outtakes of NFB documentaries, and then edit the filmed images to the soundtrack.

Despite the burgeoning interest in Lipsett and the richness of his work, there has been little critical writing on him to date. This anthology, which will include both reprints and new commissioned essays, is intended to address this gap, and to offer readers insight into Lipsett's films and life, as well as access to visual materials previously unavailable to the public. This book will stand for the foreseeable future as the standard critical reference on Lipsett's films, and a valuable visual and biographical reference as well. 

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INCITE JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA #5: BLOCKBUSTER

2014–2015

Edited by Peter Nowogrodzki

"Even when we don't want to address the megaplex, we already have. We live in ever-more intimate proximity to impersonal fame and distant celebrity. Los Angeles doesn't just play itself, as Thom Andersen said in 2003, today the city asserts itself: it is popular, atomized, and always in dispersal. And now it's in INCITE too – though even in absence, the presence of Hollywood was here all along." – Excerpt from Peter Nowogrodzki's "Editorial Statement"

Contributors: Sam Axelrod, Christina Battle, Colin Beckett, Roger Beebe, Giampaolo Bianconi, Ian Cheng, Pablo de Ocampo, Brian Droitcour, Walter Forsberg, Anna Ialeggio, Gregory Kalliche, John Klacsmann, Norman Klein, Oliver Laric, Kevin B. Lee, Olia Lialina, Jodie Mack, Ian Page, Lucy Raven, Kalan Sherrard, Amy Sloper

194 pages

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INCITE JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA #4: EXHIBITION GUIDE

Fall 2013

Edited by Brett Kashmere and Walter Forsberg

Contributors: 40 Frames, Adam Abrams, Steve Anker, Rebecca Barten, Christina Battle, Scott Miller Berry, Bill Brand, Bill Brown, David Cox, Bill Daniel, Donna de Ville, Clint Enns, Bradley Eros, Kate Ewald, Flinching Eye Collective, Walter Forsberg, Brian L. Frye, Sandra Gibson, Elena Gorfinkel, Sabine Gruffat, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Josh Guilford, Sarah Halpern, Ed Halter, Adelheid Heftberger, Kier-La Janisse, Michael Johnsen, Sharon Johnson Chris Kennedy, Richard Kerr, Bryan Konefsky, Christy LeMaster, Alain LeTourneau, Jeanne Liotta, Kate MacKay, Alex MacKenzie, Jesse Malmed, Caroline Martel, Theo Michael, Alice Moscoso, David Nelson, Gordon Nelson, Tara Merenda Nelson, Greg Pierce, John Porter, Melissa Ragona, Luis Recoder, Marcus Rosentrater, Ben Russell, David Sherman, Spectacle, Tess Takahashi, tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE, Jonathan Walley, Audrey Young

Portfolios: The Blinding Light!! Cinema, Light Industry, Magic Lantern Cinema, Orgone Cinema, Other Cinema, The Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, Spectacle Theater

Layout and Design: Jasen Lex
Cover artwork: Walter Forsberg

280 pages, perfect bound.

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INCITE JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA
ISSUE #3: NEW AGES

Fall 2011-Spring 2012

Edited by Brett Kashmere

Contributors: Dominic Angerame, Jaimz Asmundson, Jeremy Bailey, Christina Battle, Thomas Beard, Roger Beebe, Michael Betancourt, Mireille Bourgeois, Jacob Ciocci, Clint Enns, Walter Forsberg, Brian L. Frye, Benj Gerdes, Brett Kashmere, Eliza Koch, Kevin McGarry, Jesse McLean, James Missen, Shana Moulton, Peter Nowogrodzki, Andrew James Paterson, Ken Paul Rosenthal, Ekrem Serdar, Leslie Supnet, and Tess Takahashi. 

168 pages, perfect bound, with 3D ChromaDepth glasses insert.
Designed by Eliza Koch. Cover by Jacob Ciocci.

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INCITE JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA
ISSUE #2: COUNTER-ARCHIVE

Spring-Fall 2010

Edited by Brett Kashmere

Contributors: Simon Aeppli, Jo SiMalaya Alcampo, Cory Arcangel, Dave Barber, Jessica Bardsley and Penny Lane, Nicola Bergstrom and Valdemar Lindekrantz, Michael Betancourt, Aleesa Cohene, Bruce Conner, Amelia Does, Walter Forsberg, Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder, Noam Gonick, I LOVE PRESETS, Brett Kashmere, Bryan Konefsky, Evan Meaney, Jason Orman, Julie Perini, Jenny Perlin, Tasman Richardson, Michael Robinson, Ben Russell, Brittany Shoot, Ryan Tebo, Bart Testa, Cat Tyc, William C. Wees, and Philip Widmann.

120 pages, perfect bound, with DVD insert.
Designed by Eliza Koch.

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INCITE JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA
ISSUE #1: MANIFEST

Fall 2008-Spring 2009

Edited by Brett Kashmere

Contributors: Association for Film Art, Atelier national du Manitoba, Craig Baldwin, Scott Berry, Michael Betancourt, Carl Brown, Gerda Cammaer, Double Negative, Dumba, Clint Enns, Rick Hancox, Brett Kashmere, Richard Kerr, The League, Karl Lemieux, Scott MacKenzie, Jonas Mekas, Regina Muff, Solomon Nagler, Georgette Nicolaides, Peter Nowogrodzki, Steve Polta, Daichi Saito, Leslie Supnet, Syracuse Experimental, Ryan Tebo, Leslie Topness, and Kenneth White.

147 pages, side-stitched, with pull-out poster manifesto.
Covers letter-pressed by Leslie Topness.

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INDUSTRY:
RECENT WORK BY RICHARD KERR

2005

Edited by Brett Kashmere

This publication accompanies the exhibition Industrie / Industry: Oeuvres récentes / Recent works by Richard Kerr, organized by Brett Kashmere and presented at the La Cinémathèque québécoise, Salle Norman-McLaren, Montreal, 4 November 2004–23 January 2005.

Contributors: Gerda Cammaer, Randolph Jordan, Brett Kashmere, Richard Kerr, Michael Rollo, Astria Suparak, and William C. Wees.

DVD-format Exhibition Catalog
Hand-crafted covers by robert.daniel.pytlyk.

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