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Mildred 'Chick' Strand
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Mildred "Chick" Strand's accomplishments as an artist spanned more than three decades. In the early 1960s, with a new anthropology degree in hand, she turned her attention to ethnographic filmmaking. Her early work focused on Meso-American cultures explored through the language of the experimental documentary. In 1961, she founded Canyon Cinema with Bruce Baillie, an organization that, in 1965, spawned the San Francisco Cinematheque. They organized screenings of experimental, documentary and narrative films in East Bay backyards and community centers. Acting in response to a lack of public venues for independent movies, they were part of a wider explosion in American avant-garde film. The era was one of social idealism and communal energy, and the films they showcased boldly embraced purely cinematic visual expression and cultural critique. Strand left Northern California in the late 1960s to pursue studies in ethnographic film at UCLA. She then joined the faculty of Occidental College, where she served as the director of the film as art program for a quarter of a century. In the 1970s she continued to define her visual technique, and her subjects more frequently became women. She soon evolved a distinctive film style: backlit subjects photographed in close up and in motion, with a handheld telephoto lens. The technique produced sensual, lyrical images that became Strand's signature. Her entire filmography numbers nearly a score of works, and along the way, she also become an accomplished photographer and painter.
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- wc Gender: Female
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1931-12-03
- event Death Date 2009-07-11
- school Known for: Directing
- star Popularity: 1.2
- info Birth Place Northern California, USA
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Fake Fruit Factory
1986-12-31
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Woman with Flowers
2011-09-26
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Soft Fiction
1979-11-16
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Kristallnacht
1979-11-16
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Elasticity
1975-10-10
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Sears Sox
1968-01-01
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Anselmo and the Women
1986-02-12
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Woman of a Thousand Fires
1976-05-16
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Cartoon Le Mousse
1979-11-16
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Angel Blue Sweet Wings
1966-02-12
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Coming Up for Air
1986-02-12
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Fever Dream
1979-11-16
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Mosori Monika
1970-02-12
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Eric and the Monsters
1965-09-10
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Waterfall
1968-02-12
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Artificial Paradise
1986-02-13
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Loose Ends
1979-11-16
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By the Lake
1986-01-01
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Anselmo
1967-01-01
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Cosas de mi vida
1976-01-29
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Guacamole
1975-10-10
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Loose Ends
1979-11-16
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Mosori Monika
1970-02-12
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Mosori Monika
1970-02-12
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Kulu Se Mama
1968-01-01