[Frameworks] Christopher MacLaine

[Christian Bruno]

Hello Gene,


Along with talking to Lawrence Jordan, he should also talk to Brecht Andersch: he was the person who conducted the interview with Brakhage in Radical Light discussing Maclaine.


Brecht---along with Brian Darr---conducted a massive, multipart examination of  Maclaine's The End for the SFMOMA's blog Open Space. (https://openspace.sfmoma.org/2010/09/in-search-of-christopher-maclaine-the-end-tour-1/). It is a totally enjoyable, exhaustive autopsy of the film as they try and identify the locations throughout the Bay Area, and the folks who were in it, triangulating fragments of data, and providing tons of fascinating historical context.


I know that Brecht has spoken extensively with many people who knew Maclaine personally, including about his poetry. Your friend should most definitely reach out to him.


I can provide his email address off list.


best

Christian Bruno


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Thanks Andy. I’ve passed these on.
G.











On July 5, 2017 at 8:38:48 AM, Andy Ditzler (andy at andyditzler.com<mailto:andy at andyditzler.com>) wrote:

Gene, has your friend tried contacting Lawrence Jordan? I believe Jordan knew Maclaine and worked with him on The Man Who Invented Gold (but I could be wrong). J.J. Murphy and Fred Camper have done the most extensive writing I know on Maclaine; perhaps they have some leads. There's a transcription of a conversation with Brakhage about his time with Maclaine, published in Radical Light.

Andy Ditzler
Founder and curator, Film Love: www.filmlove.org<http://www.filmlove.org/>
Co-founder, John Q collective: www.johnq.org<http://www.johnq.org/>


On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 10:02 AM, Gene Youngblood <atopia at comcast.net<mailto:atopia at comcast.net>> wrote:
Frameworkers, a friend of mine is researching the literary life of Christopher MacLaine. He sent this yesterday:

"You may know that [MacLaine] was also a poet and editor. (Jordan Belson was the art editor for the first issue of Contour Quarterly, the magazine that MacLaine and his wife Norma edited, which ran for four issues in the late forties.) I've been very interested in that side of his work, which has completely vanished from any public view or awareness, and I've been working for a few years on assembling the writings, and trying to learn more about the context. Have had a very hard time finding anyone still alive to talk to who knew him, or much on record about his life. Any suggestions you might have in that regard would be very welcome.

Any leads on this? Steve? Scott?

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