For the second installment of Eye on a Director, MAD highlights the collection of the legendary film distributor and archive Canyon Cinema. In the late 1950s, Canyon Cinema brought together independent film artists whose work reflected a remarkable diversity in style and content. Variously called avant-garde, underground and experimental, these artists shared a vision of filmmaking as a form of personal expression, free from the demands and constraints of commercial conventions.
Defined by Scott MacDonald as powerful and unusual in their emotional effects, Rolls: 1971 invites the viewer to participate in the always ongoing process of making the most authentic and satisfying human life. It is the most effective culmination of Robert Huot's intent of creating an interesting and beautiful film without being inaccessible.
Critical Cinema provides a collection of in-depth interviews with some of the most accomplished "critical" filmmakers. INTERVIEWEES: Hollis Frampton, Larry Gottheim, Robert Huot, Taka Iimura, Carolee Schneeman, Tom Chomont, J.J. Murphy, Beth B and Scott B, John Waters, Vivienne Dick, Bruce Conner, Robert Nelson, Babette Mangolte, George Kuchar, Diana Barrie, Manuel DeLanda, Morgan Fisher.
