Author Fred Camper

Fred Camper

Fred Camper is a writer and lecturer on film and art who lives in Chicago and writes regularly for the Chicago Reader. His web site, which includes extensive Brakhage resources, is www.fredcamper.com. Camper worked on an upcoming Brakhage DVD that Criterion will be releasing in June, two disks and 26 films.

Stan Brakhage: A Short Introduction

Fred Camper

May 2003

Remembering Stan Brakhage

Camper explores the visionary, innovative and beautiful nature of Brakhage's film work, and the man's generous spirit.

He Stands in a Desert Counting The Seconds of His Life

Fred Camper

November 2001

Experimental Cinema

An illuminating discussion of Mekas' style in general and this Mekas film in particular.

Guy Fihman’s Ultrarouge – Infraviolet

Fred Camper

May 2000

Retrospective: Jeune, dure et pure !

This essay is included in the catalogue for Jeune, dure et pure ! Une histoire du cinéma d'avant-garde et expérimental en France, sous la direction de Nicole Brenez et Christian Lebrat, Paris-Milan, Cinémathèqu...

Ripley Games

Criminals Against Decoration: Modernism as a Heist

The New-Ark: trying to disavow anti-blackness

Claustrophobia and Intimacy in Alex Ross Perry’s Queen of Earth and Her Smell

What’s in a Cone? Barbara Loden’s Wanda Between Weakness and Resilience

Come and See The Painted Bird: A Filmmaker’s Plea

Thresholds of Work and Non-Work in Tulapop Saenjaroen’s People on Sunday

New Dates, New British Films: The 62nd Edinburgh International Film Festival

The 34th Cinema Ritrovato Has Full Resuscitation under COVID

Women at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival

Lest We Forget: the 31st FID Marseille

A Vitalising Cinema in an Agitated Age: The 58th New York Film Festival

Locarno 2020: The Open Doors Experience

Your Daughters Come Back to You: The 28th Pan African Film and Arts Festival

Generalising from the Particular: Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema” by Geneviève Sellier and “Making Waves: New Cinemas of the 1960s” by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith

Trade Follows the Film: Cinema and the Wealth of Nations: Media, Capital, and the Liberal World System by Lee Grieveson

War, Community, and the Cinema: Front Lines of Community: Hollywood Between War and Democracy by Hermann Kappelhof and Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War by Mark Harris

The Perfect Conditional: Philippe Garrel by Michael Leonard

Creating the Appearance of Being: The Art of American Screen Acting 1960 to Today, by Dan Callahan

Engaged Vision: Critical Mass: Social Documentary in France from the Silent Era to the New Wave, by Steven Ungar

The Restless Spectator: Anxious Cinephilia: Pleasure and Peril at the Movies, by Sarah Keller

Mothlight

Stairways to Paradise: Youssef Chahine and Alexandria…Why?

At Home Among Strangers (Свой среди чужих, чужой среди своих, Nikita Mikhalkov, 1974)

German Yearnings, East and West: The Sons of Great Bear (Josef Mach, 1966)

Waiting for Rain: Oppression and Resistance in Youssef Chahine’s The Land (1970)

Of East and West and High and Low: Lemonade Joe (1964)

A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines (Chelovek s bulvara Kaputsinov, Alla Surikova, 1987)

Ivens, Joris

Scott, Tony

Menzel, Jiří

Wise, Robert

Fernández, Emilio “Indio”

Fei Mu

Huston, John

Stan Brakhage: A Short Introduction

He Stands in a Desert Counting The Seconds of His Life

Guy Fihman’s Ultrarouge – Infraviolet