CANYON CInemazine #7:
Dear Folks: NOTES AND LETTERS FROM BRUCE BAILLIE
Winter 2020/2021
Editors: Courtney Fellion, Max Goldberg, Brett Kashmere, and Seth Mitter
Design: Helen Tseng
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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.
Printed by Newspaper Club
Edition of 400
64 pages
Tabloid newspaper
11.25 x 14.75 inches
STRANGE CODES:
THE FILMS OF ARTHUR LIPSETT
Edited by Chris Gehman, Brett Kashmere, and Amelia Does
In Progress
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.
READ MORE ABOUT ARTHUR LIPSETT →
Image: Video Preservation (SMPTE) (Walter Forsberg, Kodak 7285 16mm reversal film, 2013). Courtesy of the artist. Design by Brett Kashmere.
INCITE JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA
ISSUE #4: EXHIBITION GUIDE
Edited by Brett Kashmere and Walter Forsberg
Fall 2013
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
280 pages, perfect bound.
Layout and design by Jasen Lex. Cover artwork by Walter Forsberg.
Cover design by Jacob Ciocci.
INCITE JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA
ISSUE #3: NEW AGES
Edited by Brett Kashmere
Fall 2011-Spring 2012
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.
Cover design by Eliza Koch.
INCITE JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA
ISSUE #2: COUNTER-ARCHIVE
Edited by Brett Kashmere
Spring-Fall 2010
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.
Letter-pressed cover by Leslie Topness.
INCITE JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA
ISSUE #1: MANIFEST
Edited by Brett Kashmere
Fall 2008-Spring 2009
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.
Hand-crafted cover by robert.daniel.pytlyk
INDUSTRY:
RECENT WORK BY RICHARD KERR
Edited by Brett Kashmere
2005
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.