Description
In the Absence of Marjorie Keller
Author/Editor: Robin Blaetz & Scott Hammen
CONTENTS
NOTE: This book is currently available for PRE-ORDER; orders will ship in late October.
Thirty years after her untimely death at the age of 43, the importance and influence of Marjorie Keller through her films and her work as an institution builder for avant-garde cinema have become ever more apparent.
Her films, though criticized in the 1970s and 1980s, for being insufficiently feminist, have since given rise to an increasing number of dissertations, screenings, and reconsiderations of the politics of feminism in the cinema and beyond.
Included are contemporary critical essays about Keller’s 8mm and 16mm films, her organizational labor both in film and social activism and samples of her scholarly and creative writing. Together these texts bring long overdue attention to Marjorie Keller’s unique contributions to moving image art.
RELATED SCREENINGS: In conjunction with the publication of In the Absence of Marjorie Keller, two programs of her films, spanning twenty-four years, will be presented. Each one focuses on Keller’s interest in private life—perceiving daily events as occasions for inquiry and critique. Oct 21: Alternative Visions 7: Marjorie Keller Films @ BAMPFA + Nov 5: Marjorie Keller: Intimate Observer @ The Lab.
CONTENTS:
Acknowledgements
Introduction — ROBIN BLAETZ
Part 1: CRITICAL ESSAYS
Marjorie Keller: The Untutored Eye — P. ADAMS SITNEY
In the Absence of Marjorie Keller — ROBIN BLAETZ
The Multiplicity of Language in Marjorie Keller’s Oeuvre — ALICIA BYRNES
Objection: Marjorie Keller’s Expansive Feminism — SARAH KELLER
Dreams of Childhood Come True: Marjorie Keller’s She/Va — GIULIA RHO
The Umbilical Cut: Filmic Form and Reproductive Politics in Marjorie Keller’s 1977 Misconception — HELENA SHASKEVICH
The Radical Intimacy of Marjorie Keller’s 8mm Films — STEVE ANKER
Recollections of Marjorie Keller: An Interview with Saul Levine — MARY FILIPPO
With Some Protest from Margie: Marjorie Keller’s Administrative Tenure at the Film-Makers’ Cooperative — JOSH GUILFORD
Part 2: WRITING BY KELLER
The Notes by Saul Levine — The Book of Saul, a handmade book, 1975
Rabbit’s Moon by Kenneth Anger — Film Culture 67-68-69 (1979)
Charles Wright’s Sorted Details — Ten Years of Living Cinema, New York: Collective for Living Cinema, 1982
Review: Murder Psalm — Film Quarterly 37, no. 3 (Spring 1984): 49-57
Brakhage Once and Again — Quarterly Review of Film Studies 9 (1984): 348-52
Review of E. Ann Kaplan’s Women and Film — Millennium Film Journal 14-15 (1984-85): 43-47
Abigail Child’s Is This What You Were Born For? — XDream: An Underground Film Magazine 1, no. 1 (Autumn 1986): 1-5
The Apron Strings of Jonas Mekas — To Free the Cinema, edited by David James, Princeton University Press, 1992
Bibliography
Filmography
Notes on Contributors
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