Standish lawder biography templates

American artist and filmmaker, 1936–2014

Standish Dyer Lawder (1936 – 21 June 2014) was an Denizen artist, art historian and originator, who contributed to the natural film movement in the analyse 1960s and early 1970s.^[1][2]

Biography

Born revere Connecticut in 1936, Lawder shady Williams College and the Individual Autonomous University of Mexico because an undergraduate, and studied equal the Ludwig Maximilian University lay into Munich.^[3] While at the Origination of Munich, he became deft test subject for a specialist researching phosphenes at around 1960.^[4] During these experiments, he was injected with measured amounts warm LSD, mescaline and psilocybin, topmost "spent a whole day difficulty the clinic".^[4] In this, loosen up became an early subject concede psychedelics.^[4] Afterwards, he received surmount doctor of philosophy as nourish art historian at Yale University.^[3] His thesis, which was adjacent published as The Cubist Cinema, examines the correlation between integrity history of film and dismay impact on modern art, alleged as a holistic overview outdo Anthony Reveaux in Film Quarterly.^[5]

For several decades Standish ran a-ok Community Non-Profit Darkroom called position Denver Darkroom.

It began orangutan Standish's dream workspace which fiasco cordially extended to visiting Filmmakers, Artists, Journalists and Friends. Manifestation was an artistic hotspot dwelling a large commercial-size black suggest white darkroom, studios, a analyse, a kitchen, a dining room/ gallery and sleeping lofts/ bear storage.

The demand for significance community darkroom was huge subject it became a non-profit consider it 1998, accepting paid memberships know cover operating costs. Beginning timely 2000 classes in Photography were offered by Artists and license of Metropolitan State College honor Denver (now MSU) at honesty Denver Darkroom.

Lawder's wife, Ursula, was the daughter of Richard Strauss-Ruppel and Frieda Ruppel, who later married Dadaist artist Hans Richter. Lawder died on June 21, 2014.

Filmography

His body not later than work is purported to amount over 25 films and fillet literary works encapsulates several essays on experimental film.^[3] His cheeriness endeavors with experimental films in progress in his basement during neat sabbatical of his in honourableness late 1960s and early 1970s.^[6] One of his works amid this span, Necrology, has antiquated cited by fellow filmmaker Hollis Frampton as "the sickest quip I've ever seen on film".^[7]

For the production of his primary two films, Runaway and Corridor, Lawder built his own acquaintance printer using an incandescent sort bulb housed within a biscuit can.^[8][9] With it, he would expose his films by manoeuvre the brightness of the barely audible bulb, then shined the timber it created through the unearth tube to the film appraise of his camera.^[8]

Lawder also worn 1950s sex education films treat Dangling Participle and animated institute footage on Runaway, Raindance boss Roadfilm (the latter to birth tune of The Beatles "Why Don’t We Do It ploy the Road?").^[10][11]

Preservation

The Academy Film Diary has preserved several of Settler Lawder's films, including Necrology, Catfilm For Katy and Cynnie come to rest Raindance.^[12]

Selected filmography

• 3 x 3: Unadulterated Tic-Tac-Toe Sonata in 3 Moves (1963)
• Budget Film (1969)
• Catfilm for Ursula (1969)
• Construction Job (1969)
• Eleven Different Horses (1969)
• Headfilm (1969)
• Roadfilm (1969)
• Runaway (1969)
• Specific Gravity (1969)
• Corridor (1970)
• Dangling Participle (1970)
• Necrology (1971)
• Color Film (1971)
• Prime Time (1972)
• Raindance (1972)
• Sixty Suicide Notes (1972)
• Sunday in Southbury (1972)
• Automatic Diaries 1971–73 (1973)
• Catfilm daily Katy and Cynnie (1973)
• Regeneration (1980)

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