Hi Adam, I am sorry to hear this news. Terry gave me a one person showing back in 1983. It was one of my first. I believe the Pasadena Film Forum was held in an old Bank Building in downtown. Quite an experience for sure. He gave the Forum a great name and a great showcase there in Pasadena. I remember his Spiral Magazine that he started and I believe he was the last editor of the Canyon Cinema News. A large issue, I think it was a double issue that I still own and had one of my contributions included, one of Dziga Vertov’s Manisfestos that he had written for the Kinoks.
He was a great host to Susan and I and filmmaker Dean Snider. I remember us have a great time and was surprised about his other interests besides Experimental Filmmaking. Like many of us, I lost track of him. I am sorry to hear of his death. Please give his family my sympathy. Dominic Angerame > On Aug 2, 2020, at 10:31 AM, Adam Hyman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thank you, and to Scott for his remembrance as well. I forgot to include in > the text that it was written by Alison Kozberg, Filmforum Board president, > and myself. My apologies for leaving off the writing credits when I posted. > Additional comments and links are being added to the Filmforum Facebook page. > Terry’s willingness to provide opportunities to unheralded people was really > remarkable. We already knew how Barbara Hammer always credited Terry with > her first show outside the lesbian Bay Area community, and the first show for > which she was paid. It’s in her autobiobraphy Hammer!, along with a photo of > her holding her check from the Filmforum show. Grahame Weinbren has pointed > out that Terry gave him and Roberta Friedman their first solo show. Jeff > said that Terry arranged the first review of “Demon Lover Diary” when it > screened at Pasadena Filmforum. > And although his journal Spiral from the 1980s is more well-remembered, his > earlier journal GOSH was also pretty amazing. > https://www.artjobs.com/resources/bd/fashion-magazine/gosh# > <https://www.artjobs.com/resources/bd/fashion-magazine/gosh#> > > We have images of the Pasadena Filmforum posters which were pretty great. I > don’t believe I can send any to the list, but I’ll work on getting some > uploaded to one of our web pages. > > Best regards, > > Adam > > From: FrameWorks <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Jeff Kreines > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > Reply-To: "Experimental Film Discussion List <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>" <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > Date: Sunday, August 2, 2020 at 6:53 AM > To: "Experimental Film Discussion List <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>" <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Sad news - Terry Cannon, founder of Filmforum, > passes away > > Beautifully put, Adam. Amazing how much Terry accomplished with no > institutional support. > > Condolences to Mary and of course the birds. He’ll be missed. > > Jeff Kreines > Kinetta > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > kinetta.com > > Sent from iPhone. > >> On Aug 2, 2020, at 8:09 AM, Scott MacDonald <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> >> Thanks, Adam, for alerting us to the passing of Terry Cannon. >> >> On the wall of the room where I keep my VHS/DVD/BluRays and watch films >> hangs a beautiful poster from Pasadena Filmforum, a souvenir of a visit to >> Pasadena to present a program of single-shot films in 1981. Patricia and I >> were on a cross-country trip, my first visit to the American West, to >> interview filmmakers (Morgan Fisher, George Kuchar, Robert Nelson, Bruce >> Conner) for what would become the first Critical Cinema collection of >> interviews (California Press, 1988). We stayed with Terry and Mary, sleeping >> on their floor, for several days--and talking well into the nights. As I >> remember, a hamster rolled round the little apartment in a plastic ball. >> >> It would be impossible to overstate how lovely a man Terry was. His >> commitment to avant-garde cinema and his light-hearted labors in service of >> it were obvious and innovative. Pasadena Filmforum was a fun venue--though I >> think I bored the audience that night (Morgan Fisher came up after the show >> to tell me, "In LA, we don't talk so much before screenings")--though the >> audience had been attentive to the films: as I remember, Larry Gottheim's >> Fog Line, J. J. Murphy's Sky Blue Water Light Sign, Bob Huot's Snow, Hollis >> Frampton's Lemon, and one of Morgan's films--probably Production Stills. >> >> Terry's SPIRAL was an unusual film journal--thoroughly non-academic, but >> valuable, high-spirited, and a pleasure to read. He and Willie Varela would >> edit an issue of The Cinemanews (née the Canyon Cinemanews), No. 81: 2-6, >> focusing on Super-8mm filmmaking, an early recognition/exploration of the >> achievements of small-gauge filmmaking--just one of Terry's collaborative >> projects. His curating and his editing and publishing were, for years, >> important for filmmakers, cineastes, and fledgling film scholars. >> >> As Adam has said, Terry moved on to other pursuits; and after a time, I lost >> touch with him--but my interaction with Terry always was and always will be >> a deeply pleasurable memory. He was a beautiful soul. RIP. >> >> Scott >> >> On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 3:04 AM Adam Hyman <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> Today we lost our friend and visionary founder Terry Cannon. Terry was a >>> writer, an editor, a curator, a librarian, an archivist, and incredible >>> advocate for his students, colleagues, and generations of filmmakers. He >>> believed in paying artists for their work, the importance of community >>> collaboration, and that arts spaces should be welcoming and risk-taking. >>> He founded Filmforum (née Pasadena Filmforum) in 1975 when he was 22 years >>> old and served as Executive Director for eight years. As Filmforum’s >>> Executive Director, Cannon curated programs including “Show for the Eyes,” >>> the first mail art film exhibition, “Films Found in a Box,” and “El Ojo >>> Apasionado: The Passionate Eye,” along with creating our mission of >>> promoting a greater understanding of media art, and the role of the artists >>> and curators who create and present it, by providing a forum for >>> independently produced, noncommercial work which has little opportunity of >>> reaching the general public. >>> Cannon subsequently founded the arts publication Gosh! In 1978, and Spiral >>> in 1984, which featured writing and artwork by experimental film luminaries >>> including James Broughton, Willie Varela, Marjorie Keller, Pat O’Neill, >>> Janis Lipzin, Kurt Kren, and Bruce Conner. He also edited the automotive >>> publication Skinned Knuckles for over 25 years until 2005. >>> In his time at Filmforum, he befriended the artist and filmmaker Sara >>> Kathryn Arledge, and eventually, after Arledge’s death, he and his wife >>> Mary saved many of her paintings and painted slides when they were on the >>> verge of destruction. They formed the Sara Kathryn Arledge Memorial Trust, >>> and were instrumental in the exhibition of Arledge’s work at the Armory >>> Center for the Arts in Pasadena in 2019, which brought Arledge's work to a >>> new generation. >>> In 1996 Cannon founded the Baseball Reliquary, a nonprofit organization >>> “dedicated to fostering an appreciation of American art and culture through >>> the context of baseball history” Beginning in 1999 the Reliquary began >>> honoring important figures from baseball’s history by adding them to its >>> Shrine of the Eternals, designed to elect “individuals on merits other than >>> statistics and playing ability...for a deeper understanding and >>> appreciation of baseball than has heretofore been provided by “Halls of >>> Fame” in the more traditional and conservative institutions. Honorees have >>> included Jim Abbott, Dick Allen, Jim Bouton, Dizzy Dean, Curt Flood, Josh >>> Gibson, Roger Maris, Manny Mota, Don Newcombe, Satchel Paige, Luis Tiant, >>> Bob Uecker, Fernando Valenzuela, and Maury Wills. The lauded tribute to the >>> intersection of art and baseball functions as a traveling museum, bringing >>> curiosities and wonders to sites throughout Southern California. The >>> Reliquary’s collections now serve as the foundation for the Institute for >>> Baseball Studies at Whittier College. >>> In 2010, Alhambra High School, where Cannon served as librarian for many >>> years, named him as Employee of the Year. That same year he helped the >>> student group Artists Anonymous organize the exhibition “Kaleidoscope Eyes” >>> about the 1960s. Cannon subsequently worked at the Allendale Branch of the >>> Pasadena Public Library, where he hosted discussions with a wide variety of >>> guests during his tenure, including musicians, filmmakers, writers, and >>> curators, while being a charming and helpful librarian for the community. >>> As a lifelong creator of non-profit organizations, unusual magazines, and >>> as a librarian, Cannon was committed to the unheralded and idiosyncratic, >>> and to the regenerative and delightful possibilities of community and art >>> that continues to inspire the organizations he founded and the people he >>> touched. Cannon is survived by wife Mary Cannon and siblings Phil, Barbara, >>> and Nancy. >>> >>> An oral history with Terry Cannon: >>> https://www.alternativeprojections.com/oral-histories/terry-cannon/ >>> <https://www.alternativeprojections.com/oral-histories/terry-cannon/> >>> An article by him about the early years of Filmforum: >>> https://www.alternativeprojections.com/articles/filmforum-the-pasadena-years-1975-1983/ >>> >>> <https://www.alternativeprojections.com/articles/filmforum-the-pasadena-years-1975-1983/> >>> http://www.baseballreliquary.org/ <http://www.baseballreliquary.org/> >>> https://www.armoryarts.org/exhibitions/2019/arledge/ >>> <https://www.armoryarts.org/exhibitions/2019/arledge/> >>> https://www.whittier.edu/news/baseballinstitute >>> <https://www.whittier.edu/news/baseballinstitute> >>> https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/01/sports/baseball/01reliquary.html >>> <https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/01/sports/baseball/01reliquary.html>_______________________________________________ >>> FrameWorks mailing list >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >>> <https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks> >> _______________________________________________ >> FrameWorks mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >> <https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks> > _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > <https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks>_______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
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