[Frameworks] American avant-garde filmmakers and exploitation

[Tyler Maxin]

Jack Smith was a background actor in *Silent Night, Deadly Night—*as were a
bunch of Warhol affiliates.
George Kuchar appears in the 1985 Troma film *Screamplay. *

On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 2:56 PM jared ashburn <ashburn.jared at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thank you Fred, Dominic, and Robert!
>
> Right now, I am looking mostly for avant-garde filmmakers who worked on
> low-budget, B or C or even F!, and/or exploitation features but I am also
> interested in those that made their own independent features.
>
> To avoid any confusion, I probably should have just said "independent"
> features but I thought that sounded too broad as I am mostly interested in
> those avant-garde filmmakers who worked on B and exploitation features as a
> way of supporting themselves and their own filmmaking.
>
> If anyone knows of a researcher who has historicized any of this, please
> let me know. Thanks, again! --JA
>
> On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 1:39 PM Dominic Angerame <
> dominic.angerame at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> And of course Shirley Clarke was essential B, I guess “C” if u call ag
>> features such. Lol
>>
>> d
>>
>> On Nov 9, 2021, at 11:20 AM, Robert Harris <lagonaboba at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I stayed out of this thread because I was uncertain regarding the
>> implications of “B” or exploitation.
>> But the discussion seemed to get interesting.
>>
>> Robert Polidori was cinematographer for all three episodes, and I, Robert
>> Harris, shot with him on episode 3 of  Bill Gunn’s *Personal Problems.*
>> *Personal Problems *went virtually unseen for decades, but has been
>> revived and is enjoying critical acclaim. It was written and produced by
>> Ishmael Reed.
>> It was low budget but not exploitation.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Nov 8, 2021, at 4:17 PM, jared ashburn <ashburn.jared at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> 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...
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Jared
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