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X Richard Myers
"Deathstyles" (1971, color, 60 min.) & "Coronation"
(1965, b&w, 23 min.)
7:30 p.m., Firehouse Theatre, Free Admission
 The
late great avant-garde filmmaker, theorist and historian Stan
Brakhage wrote that Myers' films give us "the ONLY consistently
creative variable to dream-thinking in our time." His
point was that other films cultivating the "surreal tag"
were somehow too reliant on their use of symbols and props
(i.e., Cocteau's "Blood of the Poet"); but Myers,
using friends and family as actors and technicians, goes right
to the heart of film and to the heartland of America, creating
his own lexicon—his dreams are as personal as the public
ritual of cinema-going and as universal as private memory.
(Filmmaker Richard Myers was a JRFF visiting artist in 2001.)
Introduction by Robert Ellis, Department of English, Virginia
Commonwealth University.
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