[Frameworks] Sad News--Chuck Kleinhans

[Richard Herskowitz]

The article by Chuck Kleinhans in Jump Cut 4 called “Reading and Thinking About the Avant-Garde” blew and freed my mind in 1975. I had recently graduated from “Binghamton Babylon” and was still under the spell of Ken Jacobs, and had just signed up to be a TA and assistant to Amos Vogel at U of Penn. I read Sitney’s “Visionary Film” the week it came out. Chuck’s article helped me start building a critical perspective on the avant-garde and its champions, and a bridge between my left politics and avant-garde taste, and validated and cemented my love of avant-garde film.

I just re-read it this morning and you can too: https://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC06folder/AvantGdeReading.html <https://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC06folder/AvantGdeReading.html>. It’s part of the e-jumpcut gold mine that Chuck and Julia Lesage have left us.

In 2008, I moved to Eugene, and became good friends with Chuck and Julia. I programmed occasional experimental film shows here at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, and still do, but have found it difficult to build an audience. Yet Chuck and Julia always showed up, and sat in the first row! And now he’s gone. What a loss, in this terrible year. At least he went out after Roy Moore went down, at a moment of faint hope.

Richard

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Richard Herskowitz
Artistic and Executive Director, Ashland Independent Film Festival  <http://www.ashlandfilm.org/> April 12-16, 2018
Artistic Director, Houston Cinema Arts Festival  <http://houstoncinemaartsfestival.org/> Nov. 9-13, 2017
Curator of Media Arts, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art <http://jsma.uoregon.edu/>
541-729-4516

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