A Critical Cinema 2: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers

criticism. 2. Motion picture producers and directors

United StatesInterviews. I. Title.

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To my best teachers:

Patricia O'Connor, Peter Watkins,

J. J. Murphy, Bob Huot, Morgan Fisher,

Frank Bergmann, Su Friedrich, Ian MacDonald

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Contents

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction

1

Robert Breer

15

Michael Snow

51

Jonas Mekas

77

Bruce Baillie

109

Yoko Ono

139

Anthony McCall

157

Andrew Noren

175

Anne Robertson

206

James Benning

220

Lizzie Borden

249

Ross McElwee

265

Su Friedrich