[Frameworks] avant-garde filmmakers who worked on low budget features

Sat Dec 4 07:52:41 CST 2021

Jared,

Hello, I just saw your original question through Janis' reply below.

I worked on independent features in the Bay Area from the late 1990s through about 2010 (only a fraction of those are listed on imdb).
My guess is that filmmakers who were making work in the 1960s and 70s were also very likely to have worked on other peoples' films during that time - either for hire projects, or films that their friends were making.

You might be able to get a lot of names by looking at the dates of works completed in the Canyon Cinema catalog.

I know Toney Merritt sometimes photographed other peoples' films.
Here's a link to his personal filmography and contact information.
http://www.toneymerritt.com/films.html

-- Bill Basquin

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It is not widely known, but true, that I worked on George Romero’s “Crazies”. It was made on and near a farm where I was living in western Pennsylvania near the towns of Connoquenessing and Evans City in the mid ‘70s.
Janis Crystal Lipzin

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> On Thursday, December 2, 2021, 12:03:38 AM GMT+1, Francisco Torres wrote:
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> Vorkapich is so underrated.... Sad. Harrington made a TV movie in the 70s titled The Dead Dont?Die that must be one of the weirdest things ever paid for by a major network. Worth checking out.?
> El mi?, 1 de dic. de 2021 a la(s) 18:48, jared ashburn (ashburn.jared at gmail.com) escribi?:
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> Thank you, Francisco, Vorkapich is at the top of the list! I am reading "Nice Guys Don't Work in Hollywood" right now and I'll watch this interview soon. Thanks, again!
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 4:51 PM Francisco Torres wrote:
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> Curtis Harrington interview about his horror films 1974
> https://archive.org/details/CinefantastiqueVol03No3Fall1974/page/n21/mode/2up
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> El vie, 12 de nov. de 2021 a la(s) 18:19, Francisco Torres (fjtorrespr at gmail.com) escribi?:
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> How about?Slavko Vorkapich? He is credited with ''visual design'' in I Bury the Living (1958) and created the 3D sequences of The Mask (1961).Both films have become cult classics of the Psychotronic genre.
> El jue, 11 de nov. de 2021 a la(s) 17:51, Adam Hyman (adam at lafilmforum.org) escribi?:
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> Yes, talking about ?Sister Midnight?
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> I don?t know anyone else working on it.
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> On 11/11/21, 11:18 AM, "Frameworks on behalf of jared ashburn" wrote:
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> Thank you Tyler and Adam! Smith, Warhol, and the Kuchar brothers are central to all of this and I am definitely?considering their work and influence on this overlap. Turnock's work (this article and her book) is a perfect template for what I am trying to do here, but, I cannot seem to find anyone else (aside from James and Arthur) researching this part of the history of avant-garde film. For Mays, you are talking about "Sister Midnight," right? Thanks, again!
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> On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 9:18 PM Adam Hyman wrote:
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> Oh, and Peter Mays made an exploitation feature as well.
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> On 11/9/21, 10:27 AM, "Frameworks on behalf of Fred Camper" wrote:
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> Bette Gordon made her own feature film. It was low budget but I don't know if you are looking for that, or for filmmakers who worked for others? Larry Jordan made another, The Apparition, only 50 minutes according to IMDB, but it had that feature film, or TV-show, look. As best I can remember it was his own film. I definitely remember that it looked like it was trying to be a TV show or short feature. I love Jordan's best films, but on my one viewing of this one, it seemed to be not good at all, not even at what it was trying to do.
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> On 11/9/2021 11:30 AM, jared ashburn wrote:
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> OK, wow, this is great! Thank you for your replies--this is quite a list. Does anyone know if this history has been written about? I thought of David E. James and Paul Arthur and I looked at the chapter, "Narrating Los Angeles: Art Films and Independent Features," in James' book on minor cinemas in LA. He accounts, indirectly, for the point that David Sherman has made here by discussing exploitation films that exploited?the counterculture and appropriated some styles, concepts, and techniques found in the New American Cinema and European art cinema. The chapter is useful for my research but I am looking for other articles that might address the history of this overlap?more explicitly. If you think of something, I am all ears. Thank you, again, I am most appreciative. -JA
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> List of American Avant-Garde filmmakers who also worked on low-budget, B and exploitation feature films in the 1960s and 70s:
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> Pat O'Neil?
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> Curtis Harrington
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> Nathaniel Dorsky
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> Morgan Fisher?
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> Jerry Abrams?
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> Peggy Ahwesh?
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> Jerome Hiler
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> Betzy Bromberg
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> Hy Hirsh
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> On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 10:23 PM Marc Couroux wrote:
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> Yes! Fisher mentions Messiah of Evil, and shows a frame of it in Standard Gauge.
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> On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 5:01 PM Steve Polta wrote:
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> 1) Nathaniel Dorsky:?Revenge of the Cheerleaders?(1976)?he was either director, co-writer, cinematographer or some combination, depending on whom you ask.
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> 2) I've heard that Morgan Fisher was editor on Messiah of Evil?(1973) although he is not credited (he appears as an actor as well).
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> 3) Bay Area '60s filmmaker (who also did light shows) Jerry Abrams directed an exploitation doc on Bay Area porn culture of the '70s; I can't recall the title.
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> 4) Peggy Ahwesh worked on-set on some George Romero films but I don't know the titles.?
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> On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 1:19 PM jared ashburn wrote:
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> Does anyone know of any American avant-garde filmmakers who also worked on low-budget features, B or exploitation films in the late 60s and 70s? This could be in any area of production or post-production...?
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