Filmmaking legend Chick Strand passes away
Posted by GoreMaster Special Effects on July 15, 2009
West Coast nonfiction filmmaking legend Chick Strand passed away on Saturday, July 11 at the age of 78. Chick was a force behind the formation of art/underground film distributor Canyon Cinema and founding editor of the influential Canyon Cinemanews journal.
Strand, who stayed in Los Angeles after graduating from UCLA in 1971, taught at Occidental College for 24 years, where she would sit in the back of the room next to the projector, showing films such as Bruce Conner’s A Movie and smoking like a chimney. “I sort of made up the program as I went along,” she muses, explaining that she basically was the film program for many years. A class with Strand generally started with each student describing his or her first sexual experience; after that, no one had anything more to hide and they could get on with the business of making movies.
Chick Strand’s credits include:
Coming Up for Air (short) – Director, Writer (writer), Editor, Producer.1986
Cartoon le Mousse (short) – Director, Writer (writer), Editor, Producer. 1979
Kristallnacht (short) – Director, Writer (writer), Editor, Produce. 1979
Loose Ends (short) – Director, Writer (writer), Editor, Producer. 1979
Soft Fiction – Director. 1979
Woman of a Thousand Fires (short) – Director. 1976
Angel Blue Sweet Wings (short) – Director, Writer (writer), Editor, Producer.1966
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