[Frameworks] American avant-garde filmmakers and exploitation

[Fred Camper]

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.

Fred Camper

Chicago


On 11/9/2021 11:30 AM, jared ashburn wrote:
> 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
>
> List of American Avant-Garde filmmakers who also worked on low-budget, 
> B and exploitation feature films in the 1960s and 70s:
>
> *Pat O'Neil *
>
> *Curtis Harrington*
>
> *Nathaniel Dorsky*
>
> *Morgan Fisher*
>
> *Jerry Abrams*
>
> *Peggy Ahwesh*
>
> *Jerome Hiler*
>
> *Betzy Bromberg*
>
> *Hy Hirsh*
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 10:23 PM Marc Couroux <couroux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Yes! Fisher mentions Messiah of Evil, and shows a frame of it in
>     Standard Gauge.
>     M
>
>     On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 5:01 PM Steve Polta <steve.polta at gmail.com>
>     wrote:
>
>         Off the top of my head:
>
>         1) Nathaniel Dorsky: /Revenge of the Cheerleaders/ (1976)—he
>         was either director, co-writer, cinematographer or some
>         combination, depending on whom you ask.
>         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).
>         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.
>         4) Peggy Ahwesh worked on-set on some George Romero films but
>         I don't know the titles.
>
>         There are surely lots more…
>
>         On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 1:19 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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