Okay,

With the usual amazing speed, I have my answer - it is indeed an image from 
Tom, Tom…

In the spirit of sharing information…the story behind this catalog is that 
Michelson labored over it, not sure what image would represent “a decade’s most 
significant work.” She recounts this story in a 1974 essay on Sharits, and more 
recently tells it in a really interesting interview with Adeena Mey 
(https://www.academia.edu/35126105/On_New_Forms_in_Film_and_Other_Exhibitions._A_conversation_with_Annette_Michelson
 
<https://www.academia.edu/35126105/On_New_Forms_in_Film_and_Other_Exhibitions._A_conversation_with_Annette_Michelson>).
 

In the Sharits essay, Michelson writes, “I faltered, while my printer 
waited…until a friend in softest perfidy suggested, 'And why not an empty film 
frame, its shape and composition that of the screen itself?' To which my reply, 
exploding in the immediate relief of laughter, could only be: 'But then, whose 
frame or screen is it to be? To which filmmaker do I go, to Brakhage, Snow, 
Jacobs, or Frampton? To Breer, Mekas, Kubelka, Sharits?'”

Har har. (The “friend” turns out to have been Noel Carroll, who was a Masters 
student in Cinema Studies at NYU at the time). Anyway, clearly the Montreux 
catalog does not have an empty frame on the cover, so I wondered whether there 
was a separate catalog for the first version of “New Forms in Film,” which was 
as part of the Summer Arts Festival at the Guggenheim in 1972. I’ve not been 
able to find that - though there is something in a box in the Guggenheim 
archive that may be it, or maybe not. I’m pretty sure Michelson’s anecdote is 
about producing the Montreux catalog, and her interview with Mey seems to 
confirm this.

Anyway, I opened up this rabbit hole all because I’m using an image of the 
catalog cover in a book, and felt like I needed to address the discrepancy 
between the story and the catalog. Thanks for everyone who helped me do that. 

All best,
Jonathan

> On Oct 5, 2019, at 12:12 PM, Jonathan Walley <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello folks,
> 
> Wondering if anyone can identify the film this image is from (attached). This 
> is the cover of Annette Michelson’s “New Forms in Film” screening in 
> Montreux, Switzerland, from 1974 (the screening began its life in 1972 at the 
> Guggenheim). I thought it might be from Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son, but am not 
> sure (Michelson did use a frame from that film for the cover of the Sept. 
> 1971 Artforum she edited).
> 
> Thanks anyone and everyone,
> Jonathan
> 
> Dr. Jonathan Walley
> Associate Professor
> Department of Cinema
> Denison University
> https://denison.edu/people/jonathan-walley 
> <https://denison.edu/people/jonathan-walley>
> 
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