[Frameworks] RIP Robert Haller & William T. Wiley

[Dominic Angerame]

Yikes two important people at once! Thanks for the announcement Eric.

So sorry about Robert Haller, he was such a good person. Humble yet lived the history of Experimental Cinema from the 60’s maybe earlier to modern times. He documented so many events in the NYC Film scene and of Jonas Mekas. A great historian, understated, and quite overlooked in many ways. Many of his accomplishments have gone by unrecognized by many. I always enjoy talking with him on the phone when I was at Canyon and when I went to visit Anthology in NYC. He seemed to always be there hidden in the paper archives and constantly working. He helped in many ways and I will remember his kindness.

William T. Wiley. William did several covers for the Canyon Cinema Catalog. The first one was the one Michael Wallin and myself compiled after a long absence of published catalogs. I approached William and he did not hesitate to donate the cover artwork work called “I can’t yawn cinema”. He also donated the supplements for Catalog 5, several of them until Joel Singer did Catalog 6. William was such a personable person always approachable and never had the “I am famous” attitude that many famous artists had. I had limited contact with him, I sure the art community will be sad to hear of his passing. His film “Man’s Nature” is still at Canyon, I believe and is worth the screening.

Dominic

> On Apr 29, 2021, at 1:08 PM, Eric Theise <erictheise at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Just got the news that Anthology's Robert Haller passed away yesterday. A tribute's been posted on their site.
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>     http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/about/haller <http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/about/haller>
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> And since I haven't seen mention here, William T. Wiley, painter/printmaker/sculptor/pinball machine designer but probably best known on Frameworks as a collaborator on many Robert Nelson's films, passed away last week. Wiley was the subject of a retrospective that led off at the Smithsonian in 2009 and this related page holds examples of a lot of his work.
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>     https://americanart.si.edu/artist/william-t-wiley-5394 <https://americanart.si.edu/artist/william-t-wiley-5394>
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> Eric
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