(...and just in case you thought I was kidding:)

'Here is a list of assigned readings for you' from your local 'film appreciation society'

The Kanon of Kanadian (Film) Kulture

...according to the AGO's Jim Shedden, and 'Innis Film Society'

posted on Framework --- Mon, 3 Aug 1998 08:53:16 -0400

Spirit in the Landscape   (by Bart Testa - on landscape in Canadian
avant-garde film, including essays on Snow, Elder, Chamers, Rimmer,
Wieland, Sternberg, Kerr, and others)

Recent Work from the Canadian Avant-Garde   (ed. Jonasson & Shedden)

The Body in Film   (Elder - short "sketch" of longer, more sustained work
recently published by Wilfried Laurier University Press)

David Rimmer   (ed. Shedden, with major essay by Katie Russell, annotated
bibliography by Kathryn Elder)

Presence and Absence: The Films of Michael Snow 1956-1991   (ed. Shedden,
with contributions by Bart Testa, Bruce Elder, Kathryn Elder, Steve Reich,
Jonas Mekas - includes bibliography, filmography and documentation on film
and video-related works)

Richard Hancox  

International Experimental Film Congress   (sold out)

Back and Forth: Early Cinema and the Avant-Garde   (Bart Testa)

------ Jim Shedden
Curatorial Educator
Contemporary Art Department
Art Gallery of Ontario

the only authors missing here from the listed 'Experimental Film Congress' board are:   Barbara ('Tending Towards the Horizontal') Sternberg and Mike ('New Experiments: Recent Films from Canada's Avant-Garde') Zryd

-- Author's (AR) Note:   It's very clear where their combined sentiments, backgrounds and philosophical preferences are, and it's clear they are in lock-step with the theology of Elder and Testa. And this is a 'conservative rear-guard film culture', not any avant-garde. And that's how it ended for a while, until it has made a recent 2022 resurgence, with many of the same people acting the parts of awarded sage.

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INDEX OF FILM WRITINGS - Al Razutis