#james boaden

Little Joe, 2011

cross yr gay-ass fingers, I just loaded my last kiln before my grad school app is due (in exactly one week!). Kiln goddesses, keep those pieces safe! Anyway, this is the kinda stuff i listen to when I work in my little cave studio. whatta smart babe.

The Ambivalence of Influence: Brakhage, Warhol and after. A lecture by James Boaden In the 1960s the writer Parker Tyler examined together the films of Stan Brakhage and those made by Andy Warhol – contrasting the way in which they framed shots, edited footage, and thought about the camera itself – concluding that they represented opposite ends of the filmmaking spectrum at that time. This comparison has structured many later accounts of their work – including significant essays by Annette Michelson and David E. James. Both filmmakers were engaged in an aggressive assault on the way in which film was conventionally consumed in the 1960s, and their practices were hugely influential on a range of younger filmmakers. Both filmmakers’ work, and the persona they used to support the practice, posed difficult questions in relation to the late 1960s counterculture. Both refused to stake a direct political claim for their work (yet repeatedly addressed political material within it), and, while working all the time with issues of sexuality and gender, they antagonised advocates for identity politics (to near-fatal ends in Warhol’s case). This talk will look at some of the ways in which filmmakers (from the 1960s to today) who have referenced the work of Warhol and Brakhage in their work have expressed a profound ambivalence towards it – refusing either critique or homage. Continue reading on the Lux website