Independent Eye Magazine

The Ends of Ending (Fall 1998)

Avant Garde’s Contemporary Paradox by Bart Testa – 3
Letter by Peter Lipskis – 3
Film: The Medium About To Be Lost by Arthur and Corinne Cantrill – 4
On The Edge by Peter Rose – 6
Experimental Film by Leila Sujir – 11
Letter from Martin Rumsby – 11
Jack Chambers by Stan Brakhage -12
The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Bruce Elder – 13
Un Mes Y Medio (A Month and a Half) by Isabelle Rousset – 15
Passing Through/Torn Formations by Philip Hoffman – 15
What We Will Know by Ellie Epp – 16
Untitled Film by Fenway Crane – 17
Part One: 13 Encounters with Images by Jeffrey Paull – 18
Nothing Personal by Al Razutis – 21
Desire in Ruins by Smile – 23

Reinventing the Wheel (Winter 1989)

Cinedementia – 4
The Avant Garde, into the ‘80s by Steve Anker – 6
Gently Down the Stream by Su Friedrich – 12
Body and Time: The Films of Barbara Sternberg by Vivian Darroch-Lozowski – 13
Her Soil is Gold, Iconography of Venus, There is in Power… Seduction, The Tyranny of Architecture by Annette Mangaard – 16
Ville? Quelle Ville? by Midi Onodera – 19
Richard Raxlen: A Letter – 20
Peter Lipskis: A Letter – 20
Ann Gronau Interview by Mike Hoolboom – 21
Female Spectatorship by W5 – 30
Nicaragua, Sandanista, Reagan, Mediashun by Media-Counter – 32
On Becoming a Resident Alien by Raphael Bendahan – 33
The Forer Structured Sentence Completion Test – 35
Stan Douglas Talks at YYZ – 36
The Art of Animation in Toronto by Ellen Besen – 40
Announcements, Congratulations, News – 41
New Films – 42

Desire In Ruins (Summer 1989)

Journal Notes from ‘Endangered’ by Barbara Hammer – 2
Colour Separation: Yestertech and Beyond by Peter Lipskis – 5
April 28, 1989 by Ann Marie Fleming – 8
Untitled by David Rimmer – 12
Chris Gallagher Interview, 177 by Georg Csaba koller – 14
Seeing in the Rain by Marilyn Jull – 17
Letter from Bruce Baillie – 18
Letter from Kirk Tougas – 18
The Painted Word by Joanne Yamaguchi – 19
1. Charm, Value, Ethic, Tactic & Gender, in Writing by Ellie Epp – 21
Finishing Says by Fumiko Kiyooka – 23
Moving Zero Point: The Grace of the Sign of Grace by Oliver Hockenhull – 24
Al Razutis: Under the Sign of the Beast – 26
En Garde: Echoes in the Museum of an Official Canadian Avant Garde (Maria Insell, Michael Snow, Patricia Gruben, David Rimmer, Joyce Wieland, Ross McLaren, Lenore Coutts, Al Razutis) – 33
Human on My Faithless Arm: an interview with Valerie Tereszko by Christine Swiderski – 43
Announcements – 45

Leaving The Theatre (Fall 1989)

The Paradoxes of Writing Music for the People or for Posterity by Robert Everett-Green – 1
The Battle of the Avant-Garde Ancients and Moderns: or What I Learned at Toronto’s International Experimental Film Congress by William Wees – 3
A Conflict of Interests by Jane Evans – 5
The Future of an Illusion by Martin Rumsby – 7
Film Trek by Isabelle Rousset – 10
A House Full of Water: an interview with Philip Barker by Paul Couillard – 14
Wyn Geleynse by Joseph Wyatt – 17
An Exploration of the Nesting Metaphors of a Projected Projection by Peter Gibson – 18
Crossing Over: an interview with Paula Fairfield by James MacSwain – 19
Atlantic Names by James MacSwain – 22
Culture, Aesthetic and Obsession: The Winnipeg Film Group by MB Duggan – 24
Flatland films by W. Scheff – 29
NY Letter by Tom Chomont – 31
Working the Margin in the City of Light by John Gagné – 34
Announcements – 40

Germany: Over The Wall (Spring 1990)

Experimental Film in the Federal Republic of Germany Today by Alf Bold – 2
We Are All Monsters: an interview with Birgit Hein – 6
The Films of Dore O. – 13
Berlin Super 8: The Architecture of Division by Keith Sanborn – 20
I Was Tired of the Super 8 Ghetto: an interview with Steff Ulbrich – 31
Death, Obsession and Cinema: an interview in two parts with Michael Brynntrup – 37
Guns, Girls and Guerillas: an interview with Penelope Buitenhuis – 42
Fascism and the Fantastic: an interview with Stephan Sachs – 50
Okay, That’s Enough: an interview with Klaus Telscher – 58
I’m Not Against Pornography: an interview with Claudia Schillinger – 61
7 Weeks in Europe by Owen O’Toole – 66
Strange Developments in Ecstasy: an interview with Jochen from Schmelzdahin – 70
You Destroy Everything: an interview with Jurgen Reble and Christiane Heuwinkel – 74
Take Courage: an interview with Maija-Lene Rettig – 80
People Are Dying in Front Of Your Shoes: an interview with Thomas Lauks – 84
Old Children and AIDS: an interview with Matthias Mueller – 89
Announcements – 99

The Critical Eye: All Review Issue (Fall 1990)

Contemplating Suicide: Determinations (Oliver Hockenhull) by Fred Camper – 2
Mary, Mary (Anna Gronau) and “A Pentagram for Conjuring the Narrative” by Charles Dillane – 6
Chris Gallagher: Short Films by Jim Shedden and Michael Zyrd – 10
Death Dances On: The Films of Peter Dudar – 13
Book Review: Image and Identity by R. Bruce Elder by Jim Shedden – 21
A Dry and Moving Intensity: 25 Propositions on Chantal Akerman by Ivone Margulies – 28
A Lyric Split: The 8mm Films of Marnie Parrell by Michael Zyrd – 36
Identity and Disavowal in Marian McMahon’s Nursing History by John McCullough – 39
A Language of Flesh and of Roses (Joyce Wieland) by Leila Sujir – 41
Projexions: Peter Sandmark by Craig Masterman – 44
Voices in ?O,Zoo! (Philip Hoffman) by Paul Matusek – 47
Amerika (Al Razutis) and the Destruction Aesthetic by Eric Fergusson – 53
Bibliiography: Recent Books and Journals on Experimental/Avant-garde Film compiled by Michael Zyrd – 59
Announcements and AGM Reports – 63

Continental Shelves (Winter 1991)

Regional Reports
Distribution in the Mysterious East by Gordon Parsons – 3
Pour un Cinema Libre by Claude Forget, translation by Jeanluc Svoboda – 8
(Non) Distribution of Film and Video on the Prairies by Grant Poier – 12
CFDW: A Brief History by Sylvia Jonescu Lisitza – 17

International Reports
Reclaiming Another Desert: Distribution of Film Art in Australia – 18
Distribution in France: An Account ad Some Considerations Concerning Experimental Film by Rose Lowder – 22
Switzerland: Signs of Activity and an Important years Event in Lucerne by Rose Lowder

Points of View
Setting the Focus: Distributing Women’s Work in Canada by Margot Lacroix – 29
Connecting Voices: an interview with Richard Fung by James MacSwain – 32
Finding the Audience: A Review of the Immediate Impact conference by Helen Lee and Michael Zyrd – 38
NFB: Friend or Foe of the Independent Filmmaker? by Bonnie Baker – 43
Thoughts on an Invisible Cinema by Martin Rumsby – 46
Fropm The Diary of a Travelling Film Show by Martin Rumsby – 49
Why The Film You’re making Won’t Be Seen In Canada by Mike Hoolboom – 54

Elements
Little Pictures Make me Crazy by John Gagne -62

Announcements Eye Receives Grant, Eye on Newstands, GST, Staff changes at CFMDC, Atlantic Tour of CFMDC Films, Call for submissions, US Distribution Guide – 65

Centering Marginality (Spring/Summer 1991)

A High-Heeled Point of View: an interview with Gwendolyn by Kim Derko – 2
Passonate Dialectics Revisited: Women and Film in the University by Catherine Russell – 9
Sally’s Beauty Spot by Kass Banning – 17
Elements: Lines from a Film I Will Not Make by Ann Marie Fleming – 22
The Problem of Authenticity in Documentary Filmmaking by Yasmin Jiwani – 26
Four Asian Film/Video makers: No Longer Powdered White by Larissa Lai – 31
Negotiating Representation: Notes on Community-Based Film and Video in Canada by Judith Doyle – 36
Privilege: A New Politics of Difference by Brenda Longfellow – 40
A Cautionary Tale: The Lure of Centre in Yvonne Rainer’s Cinema by Ivone Margulies – 48

Answer Print: An open letter from Barbara Sternberg to Leila Sujir on the occasion of seeing several films by Marie Menken for the first time – 59
Announcements – 60

Exhibitionists (Fall 1991)

Exhibitionists
Interview: Hans Burgschmidt, Projectionist Extraordinaire by Marc Glassman, edited by Wyndham Wise – 5

Exhibitionists: regional reports
The Cinematheque Quebecoise or How to Perpetuate Death by Richard Brouillette, translated by Jeanluc Svoboda – 12
Confessions of a Cinematheque Coordinator or I Wish God Rode a Harley for the Canadian Film Industry by David Barber – 20
Anarchy and Institutions: A Personal View of Independent/Experimental Film Exhibitoin in Vancouver by Peter Lipskis – 26
A Report From the Northwest Territories by Anne Lynagh – 30
Resident Aliens: Canadian Films in Canadian Cinemas or Fixing it in the mix by Gordon Parsons – 34

Exhibitionists: Toronto tales
Confessions of a Cinema Exhibitionist: An Emotional Memoir by Victor Coleman
Make Love Not Films: a nice look back at the days when anarchy was in the U.K., super-8 was Ok and the production, exhibition and distribution of your movie all happened at the same time, in the same place, and in less than a year (sometimes a week or a day) by Donna Lypchuk – 45
A Brief History of the Ontario Film Theatre: an interview with Gerald Pratley by Wyndham Wise – 54

Exhibitionists: Other Voices
The Development of Film Production and Exhibition in the Federal Republic of Germany by Doina Popescu
Peripheral Connections vs. The Consciousness Industry: Three Representational Projects and Their Contexts by David McIntosh – 65

Exhibitionists: addendum
A Brief and Incomplete Chronology of Canada-US Film Relations by Mike Hoolboom – 72

Departments
Elements – 77
Answer Print – 80
Announcements – 81