Film Culture
Film Culture was an American film magazine started by Adolfas Mekas and his brother Jonas Mekas in 1954.[1] The headquarters was in New York City.[1] Best known for exploring the avant-garde cinema in depth, it also published articles on other aspects of cinema, including Hollywood films.
Contributors included Rudolf Arnheim, Peter Bogdanovich, Stan Brakhage, Arlene Croce, Manny Farber, David Ehrenstein, John Fles, DeeDee Halleck, Gregory Markopoulos, Annette Michelson, Andrew Sarris, P. Adams Sitney, Edouard de Laurot, and Parker Tyler.
Articles from Film Culture are compiled in a book entitled Film Culture Reader, published by Cooper Square Press.
Film Culture ceased publication 1996.[1] During its existence the magazine produced 79 issues.[1]
Film Awards
The magazine presented awards to Independent film makers. The winners of this award were-
First Independent Film Award
John Cassavetes — For Shadows (1959)
Second Independent Film Award
Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie — For Pull My Daisy (1960)
Third Independent Film Award
Ricky Leacock, Don Pennebaker, Robert Drew and Al Maysles — For Primary (1961)
Fourth Independent Film Award
Stan Brakhage — For The Dead and Prelude (1962)
Fifth Independent Film Award
Jack Smith — For Flaming Creatures (1963)
Sixth Independent Film Award
Andy Warhol — For Sleep, Haircut, Eat, Kiss and Empire (1964)
Seventh Independent Film Award
Harry Smith — For his entire body of work (1965)
Eighth Independent Film Award
Gregory Markopoulos — For his entire body of work (1966)
Ninth Independent Film Award
Michael Snow — For Wavelength (1968)
Tenth Independent Film Award
Kenneth Anger — For Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969)
References
- 1 2 3 4 Kareem Estefan (September 2007). "Selections from FILM CULTURE Magazine (1955-1996)". UbuWeb. Retrieved 12 December 2015.