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Bruce Conner's Permian Strata

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2006-08-02 22:12:00 by Brian in Hell on Frisco Bay
...Conner, filmmaker, artist, and on-off Frisco inhabitant since 1957. But like Louise Brooks, Conner was born in Kansas, and he related what it was like growing up in the same town as a retired Hollywood star, where he almost took dance classes at her studio, and almost got up the nerve to ring her doorbell once. You can see the beginning of...
 
 
 
 
 
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8/28: Bruce Conner shorts: A Movie; Report

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2008-08-28 22:13:00 by Ed Howard in Only The Cinema
...Conner's A Movie positions this avant-garde short as though it were a prototypical example for the entire medium. In fact, Conner's film is the self-conscious inheritor of a particular tradition within the movies, a particular use to which moving pictures have been put: the filmic spectacle. Where Conner's film, constructed entirely from a...
 
 
 
 
 
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Bruce Conner and Crossroads (1976)

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2005-12-14 18:22:00 by Brian in Hell on Frisco Bay
...Conner. Conner is perhaps best known for his first film, to quote the Cinema 16 program announcement for its screening in early 1961, "a pessimistic comedy of executions, catastrophes and sex" called a Movie . Later films like Cosmic Ray , Permian Strata and Mongoloid (with songs by Ray Charles, Bob Dylan and Devo, respectively, as...
 
 
 
 
 
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Bruce Conner (1933-2008)

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2008-07-07 23:47:00 by Brian in Hell on Frisco Bay
...Conner has died A local artist and filmmaker with global impact, his work meant a lot to me, and I feel lucky that I got to hear him speak before film screenings three times in the past several years. Though I'd seen a few samples of experimental/personal filmmaking before then, always on VHS tape, I can credit a viewing of Conner's film the...
 
 
 
 
 
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FILMMAKER BRUCE CONNER DEAD AT AGE 74; LITTLE KNOWN, BUT HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL

2008-07-13 18:29:00 by Cinema Retro in Celebrating Films of the 1960s & 1970s
 
...Conner died this week at the age of 74. Even the most ardent movie fan may not have heard of him, but his influence was widespread. Conner carved a niche for himself by compiling scraps of footage from other movies into original works that served as amusing social commentaries. Dennis Hopper said his work directly inspired him to shoot Easy...
 
 
 
 
 
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Some Remarks on Bruce Conner and Report

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2008-07-10 21:25:00 by Tom Sutpen in Bright Lights After Dark
...Conner. Beginning in the mid 1950s this native of Kansas constructed a large measure of his creative identity through the simple act of gathering together what freedom's land had seen fit to discard; incorporating a mass of found objects, like a Beat generation Duchamp, into a series of assemblages; enigmatic sculptures that, in the...
 
 
 
 
 
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Sarah Conner Might Be Back

2008-08-08 04:31:00 by Editor in Movie Blog
 
...Conner Linda Hamilton is signed up for a three picture deal to reprise her part as Sarah Conner in flashback sequences in the next three Terminator films. And although Linda Hamiltons representatives have denied it, it wouldnt be the first time reps lied to keep things under wraps. Director McG has repeatedly sold this film as a brand new...
 
 
 
 
 
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Bruce Conner, 1933 - 2008.

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2008-07-08 02:38:44 by Editor in The Latest from GreenCine Daily
...Conner , a San Franciscoâbased artist known for his assemblages, films, drawings, and interdisciplinary works, passed away Monday afternoon.... His gauzy assemblages of scraps salvaged from abandoned buildings, nylon stockings, doll parts, and other found materials gained him art-world attention, as did A Movie (1958), an avant-garde film...
 
 
 
 
 
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Yes We Canyon

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2008-11-25 17:52:00 by Brian in Hell on Frisco Bay
...Conner This was my first time seeing any of Conner's films since his death four and a half months ago. This was my fifth or sixth time seeing Cosmic Ray but it always feels like a new experience. This time I hung a bit on a lyric from the Ray Charles song used as the film's soundtrack, "See the girl with the red dress on." The fact that the...
 
 
 
 
 
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SFIFF Dispatch. 9.

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