A contemporary of Stan Brakhage, Bruce Conner and Bruce Baillie, a joint co-founder of the distributor Canyon Cinema in 1961, Chick Strand (1931-2009) was a seminal filmmaker in the West Coast underground. Her films, pieces of poetic abstraction and found footage, perfectly combine the style and technique of avant-garde cinema with ethnographic issues. This programme, selected by Mark Webber, includes Strand’s most important films, in new copies restored courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
Cartoon le Mousse, Chick Strand, United States, 1979, 15 min; Mosori Monika, 1970, 20 min; Angel Blue Sweet Wings, 1966, 3 min; Loose Ends, 1979, 25 min; Artificial Paradise, 1986, 13 min; Kristallnacht, 1979, 7 min [screening en 16 mm].
