[Frameworks] Frameworks Digest, Vol 19, Issue 4

[Dominic Angerame]

I was at that conference in the 80s how do I get a copy of that report.

Thanks

D

On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 8:39 AM Green, Ron Green <green.31 at osu.edu> wrote:

>
> https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/staten-island-ny/robert-haller-10175717
>
> We are very sad to hear about Haller. He has been one of the mainstays of
> avant-garde film for five decades. My wife, Louisa, and I have worked with
> him off and on since the early '70s. The last time we saw him was in
> October of 2019, at the memorial service for Gerry O'Grady at Anthology.
>
> Haller was one of the two supporting pillars of the earliest days of
> Pittsburgh's avant-garde film culture--Sally Dixon was the other. Together
> they invented, developed, and held together, through thick and thin, the
> Carnegie film program and Pittsburgh Filmmakers. There were other good
> people in the invention of PF, but Haller was essential, and probably the
> most travelled. He never missed any of the film conferences at Buffalo, and
> he was assiduous in documenting them, as well as many other such events,
> photographically. He is the unofficial photographer of record for that
> period of the takeoff of the avant-garde film movement, a period when
> image-device culture was not a "thing," and images of that culture were
> rare. Haller's many photographs of film people such as Brakhage, Baillie,
> Schneeman, Snow, Ken and Flo Jacobs, Emschwiller, Sharits, Frampton, Gehr,
> Kubelka, Blue, Paik, Shigeko Kubota, the Vasulkas, the Heins, and many
> other artists, as well as the many institutional leaders of the movement,
> are surely the major visual record of avant-garde film culture in the two
> or three decades before cell-phone photography. We have lost so many people
> from Haller's generation recently, and Haller and Sally are among the most
> painful for us.
>
> Haller was one of the most unassuming leaders I've known. In spite of his
> modesty, he was always a leader. When he hosted one of the most important
> planning meetings of the media-arts-center movement in the '80s, he made
> sure that there was a verbatim record of the entire two-day discussion
> among about 20 of the leaders and funders of the major media centers in the
> country--every single word is on the printed record. (A hard copy of that
> conference record is one of many such things in a collection I deposited a
> couple of years ago at Anthology--thank you, Anthology!)
>
> We miss, appreciate, and celebrate his life.
>
> Ron and Louisa Green
>
>
>
> <https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/staten-island-ny/robert-haller-10175717>
> Robert HALLER Obituary - Staten Island, NY
> <https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/staten-island-ny/robert-haller-10175717>
> Anthology lost one of its most important, devoted, and well-loved staff
> members yesterday, with the passing of Robert Haller (1942-2021). Robert
> was a fixture at Anthology since 1980, when he first arrived in New York
> for a four-year stint as Anthology’s Executive Director.
> www.dignitymemorial.com
>
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