December 2011
Studio Visit with Filmmaker Lewis Klahr
Filmmaker Lewis Klahr “re-animates” images from mid-twentieth-century advertisements, comic books, and other ephemeral talismans of American commerce and popular culture to produce submerged narratives about the emotional and dream lives of his memory-haunted characters. This visit to his Los Angeles studio sees him working on his film Wednesday Morning...
Satan Claus
J.X. Williams (193? - Present) Numerous critics have proclaimed J.X. Williams (birthname unknown) as one of the most influential figures in American avant-garde cinema (along with Stan Brakhage and Kenneth Anger) as well as an innovative cult director for several notorious exploitation films produced in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Tarantino, Scorsese, Waters and other...