AVANT-GARDE FILMS - Essays by Razutis and other authors:
- Visual Essays: Origins of Film + Amerika
by Al Razutis, Revisita Laika (Carlos Adriano, ed.), 2016 (PDF)
- The Remix Age
Exhibition as Archive by
Viva Paci, The Moving Image. Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, vol. 15, n. 2, 2015, p. 72-82. (PDF)
- A Virtual Avant-Garde - A Composite Conversation with Martin Rumsby - February, 2014 - virtual roundtable discussion (PDF)
- A Message from Our Sponsor - Institutions by Artists , by Al Razutis and Jennifer Cane - presentation at PAARC 2012 Conference, October 12, 2012, Vancouver, Canada
- outside link to > streamed video content - (Session One) 'A Message From Our Sponsor'.
- 'Pieces of Conversations With Jean-Luc Godard' - References to 'Visual Essays' by Al Razutis and other films by Razutis - Presentation by Nicole Brenez - 2012 -- PDF file
- 'Al Razutis - Iconoclast' - Anthology of writings edited by Mike Hoolboom / 1989-2009 -- 5.8 MB PDF file
- 'To and From SeNef2004'
-- Al Razutis / 2004
- 'Po-Mo Collage: 'Canada's media art history and false claims' - Al Razutis / 2004
- 'Avant-Garde: These Films
- This Site' - Al Razutis / 2002-03
- 'Film Studies 101'
('Hegemony of marxist-psychoanalytic film studies') -- Al Razutis /
2002-03
Reference:
- Lights,
Camera, Action. Marxism, Semiotics, Narratology. -- David Weddle,
Los Angeles Times, July 13, 2003
- 'Razutis - Response to Experimental Film Congress' - Al Razutis / 2002
- 'Notes on the
Retrospective - EMAF 2002' -- Al Razutis / June, 2002
- EMAF Razutis
Retrospective Catalog -- EMAF 2002 Complete TEXTS with PHOTOS
/ April, 2002 -- (746 K .PDF file)
-
'These Films - This Site'
(Al Razutis Web Page on his films) 2002
- 'No Borders Here'
The Gig by Grant Shilling (Al Razutis biographical interview) 2002 -- ( 300k jpeg image file)
- 'Film to Video
/ Video to Film...' -- Bruce Jenkins (on Razutis' / Bridge at Electrical
Storm)
-- MAGNETIC NORTH Catalog, Walker Art Center, 2000.
- 'Imagination vs. MacWorld' (html) - by 1998
From 'There's Nothing Cute About X-Manifestos' series.
- 'Three Decades
of Rage' - Razutis Interview (.doc file) - by Mike Hoolboom, 1989
(.PDF file version
100k)
First published in 'Inside the Pleasure Dome - Fringe Film in Canada',
1997, (Coach House Books)
- '
Between Agonism and the Autonomy of Art: The Case of Al Razutis' by
William C. Wees
(Originally published in The Cantrills Filmnotes, 1989) - HTML
- 'Let's set the record straight.' -- Manifesto against Toronto Experimental Film Congress - collective writing (with signature list) - 1989
- 'Echoes in the Museum of an Official Canadian Avant-Garde' The Independent Eye, Mike Hoolboom ed., Volume 10, No. 3, Summer 1989 (PDF)
- 'Under the sign of the Beast' Interview of Razutis by Hoolboom, The Independent Eye, Mike Hoolboom ed., Volume 10, No. 3, Summer 1989 (PDF)
- Interview between
David Bryant and Al Razutis - SPIRAL, January 1986 -- Acrobat
PDF file (235K)
First published in SPIRAL, January 1986,
- Propositions for
the Deconstruction of Cine-Structuralism: An Eliptical Introduction to the Films of Peter Rose - by Al Razutis, Opsis, 1985
(33K HTML format)
- 'Menage a Trois:
Contemporary Film Theory, New Narrative and the Avant-Garde' - by
Al Razutis, Opsis, 1984 (80K - HTML format)
- 'Critical Perspectives on Vancouver Avant-Garde Cinema 1970-1983' - Al Razutis and Tony Reif
Vancouver Art and Artists, Vancouver Art Gallery,
1983
- 'Recovering
Lost History: Vancouver Avant-Garde Cinema 1960-1969' - Al Razutis
Vancouver Art and Artists, pp. 160-173, Vancouver Art Gallery,
1983
- 'Expression) and (Transformation In Avant-Garde Cinema' - Al Razutis, 1982
The Martin Walsh Memorial Lecture, Paper presented to the Film Studies Association of Canada, 'Film and the Future' conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. on June 5th, 1982 (.PDF format, 68 mB)
AMERIKA a film by Al Razutis
FRAMEWORKS (1990's) List Postings:
FILM MANIFESTOS (2002 - 1980):
- RESPONSE: 'Razutis
- Aside' -- Al Razutis
-- On the Experimental Film Congress 'historical revisionisms' in Frameworks,
2002
- MANIFESTO: 'Imagination vs. MacWorld'
-- Al Razutis 1998
-- with special attention given to 'Kanadian
Kontent'
- MANIFESTO: 'Experimental
Film Congress' - Denunciation of...
-- 1989/signed by 76 film-makers
- 'Nothing Personal'
- Al Razutis 1989
First published in Independent Eye, 1989, (Mike Hoolboom,
ed.)
- 'On the Problem of the Autonomy of Art, or Splice'
- Al Razutis 1987 (JPEG image)
-- Text of performance with film and ventrilloquist's dummy by Razutis at Pacific Cinematheque 1986,
published in SPEED, 1987, (Doug Chomyn, Scott Haynes, Oliver Hockenhull,
ed.)
-
'On the Problem of the Autonomy of Art, or Splice' (HTML page) Film description and links to texts
-- by Maria Insell, Michael Snow, Patricia Gruben, David Rimmer, Joyce Wieland, Ross McLaren, Al Razutis, 1986.
- Manifesto:
"Cinema Art", by Al Razutis - dated
/ distributed March 28, 1980
VANCOUVER FILM HISTORY
- A Message from Our Sponsor - Institutions by Artists , by Al Razutis and Jennifer Cane - presentation at PAARC 2012 Conference, October 12, 2012, Vancouver, Canada
- link to streamed video content - (Session One) 'A Message From Our Sponsor'.
- 'Recovering
Lost History: Vancouver Avant-Garde Cinema 1960-1969' - Al Razutis
Vancouver Art and Artists, pp. 160-173, Vancouver Art Gallery,
1983
- 'Critical
Perspectives on Vancouver Avant-Garde Cinema 1970-1983' - Al Razutis,
Tony Reif
Vancouver Art and Artists, pp. 286-299, Vancouver Art Gallery,
1983
- 'David Rimmer: A Critical
Analysis' - by Al Razutis
Vancouver Art Gallery, 1981
- 'Beyond Intermedia' - Al Razutis,
various authors, creation of Vancouver Cinematheque, Moving Images, Cineworks organizations, 1970-80's.
- 'Underground' - by Al Razutis, various authors, 1960's underground films, creation of Intermedia Film Co-op, screenings, revues.
ON VANCOUVER & CANADIAN FILM ORGS:
- 'A couple of notes about the history of Cineworks'
- cineworks Blog - by Al Razutis 2012 - 2013 screen capture blog (jpeg)
- 'Po-Mo Collage: 'Canada's media art history and false claims' -
How the Po-Mo Era has become cut and paste meta-history - Al Razutis 2004, rev. 2010.
-
'No Borders Here'
The Gig by Grant Shilling (Al Razutis biographical interview) 2002 -- ( 300k jpeg image file)
- 'Cineworks
Beginnings' - 'A Personal Chronology' (1979-2001) by Peg Campbell,
Cineworks 2000, pp. 7-16, Cineworks Independent Filmmakers
Society, 2001
-
'Spiders in the Film Studies Web'
by Al Razutis 2000/2003
Part 1 of 3 On Education in Film Production and Film Theory - Vancouver 1970's to 2000
-
'Black Widows in the Film Studies Web'
by Al Razutis 2000/2003
Part 2 of 3 On Education in Film Production and Film Theory - Vancouver 1980's
-
'Dogs in the Yard'
by Al Razutis 2000/2003
Part 3 of 3 On Education in Film Production and Film Theory - Vancouver 1990's
-
Letter of Resignation from Faculy at Simon Fraser University Al Razutis, 1987
- Manifesto:
"Cinema Art", by Al Razutis, 1980 - on the occasion of the founding of Canadian media Co-ops by Canada Council, cited in the above and dated
/ distributed March 28, 1980
- 'Beyond Intermedia' - Al Razutis,
various authors, creation of Vancouver Cinematheque, Moving Images, Cineworks organizations, 1970-80's.
- 'Underground' - by Al Razutis, various authors, 1960's underground films, creation of Intermedia Film Co-op, screenings, revues.
OPSIS Vol. 1 No. 1 (1984)
>The Canadian Journal of Avant-Garde
and Political Cinema
(Editors: Michael Eliot-Hurst, Al Razutis,
Tony Reif)
On 'Film Theory':
On 'Censorship':
>> History of Wavefront Magazine
>> Index Page of linked Wavefront Articles
Essays by Al Razutis on Holographic Art appearing in WAVEFRONT:
Essays by and about Jerry Pethick (in memoriam):
Essay by Dan Schweitzer (in memoriam):
VIRTUAL REALITY:
Academic papers cited on this site:
CORRESPONDENCE - LIVING HISTORIES:
- 'Story for Shera'
- Letter to Sheila Urbanowski (Dresden bombing, Marijonas Vilkelis) -- Al
Razutis/August, 1999
- updated March 28, 2004
- 'Aether Vane' - Letter
to Ana MacArthur -- Al Razutis, August, 1998
STRANGE ESSAYS APPEARING IN PRINT:
UNPUBLISHED NOVELS - SCREENPLAYS (EXTRACTS):
- 'ILIUM: EXPRESS' -- Al
Razutis - 1970-1977 .PDF (Acrobat) FILES
- 'THE BEAST' - Screenplay
fragments -- Al Razutis - 1970-1977 .PDF (Acrobat) FILES
ART POLITIK / POLITICAL ART:
by Al Razutis and Jennifer Cane - presentation at PAARC 2012 Conference, October 12, 2012, Vancouver, Canada
- Facebook post - picture and text - link to streamed content.
'DOING_TIME' (Interactive web piece - scrolling texts - framesets - applets - cache intensive(!)
- Use I.E., Firefox, Chrome or Safari browsers only) -- Al Razutis, 1998
-- published by DIGITAL EARTH, 1998.
MANIFESTO-POEM: 'Down with the CFCs! (Communists, Fascists, Clerics) -- Al Razutis, April, 2003
MANIFESTO-POEM: 'Medieval Resurrection...Time to Retire the Cadaverous Curating Left?' -- Al Razutis, May, 2002
MANIFESTO: 'Imagination vs. MacWorld' -- Al Razutis / August, 1998
'Under the sign of the Beast' Interview of Razutis by Hoolboom, The Independent Eye, Mike Hoolboom ed., Volume 10, No. 3, Summer 1989 (PDF)
Manifesto:
"Cinema Art", by Al Razutis - distributed March 28, 1980
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