Loop Collective, 1996-2013

 Loop Collective, 1996-2013, by Kelly Egan, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof and others, 2013
Introductions by R.Bruce Elder and Kathy Elder. 

Part critique, part biography, part history, part artist statement, part manifesto, this book is a nice starting point to introduce one to this group and even, in a way, to lead others to the brave/foolish/necessary path of creating a mad little collective of their own 

Page 1. Mission statement. Concern with dialogue between film and other arts. 
Page 7, History of begining of group, reference to teh 1989 "notorious experimental film congress which shattered teh already tiny community of experimental filmmakers".
Page 8, Susan Oxtoby adn Independents Series in 1995.
Page 9-10, Group finally gels at Allan Ginsberg reading and reception they entered with Bruce Elder's ticket.
Page 80, Enka Loio poetic comparison of film to a book. 

Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales

Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales by Marie-Louise von Franz, revised edition, 1974, 1995.

Generally written with assumption that the reader is Christian (see especially page 111) and is frequently sexist (see page 82)

Page 34 "with the archetype of the great mother you have the witch, the devilish mother, the beautiful wise woman, and the goddess who represents fertility.
Page 61, Nose and smelling as metaphor, "smell a rat" etc.
Page 66, Latin prayer to Venus used a millennium later as an exorcism prayer.
Page 91, If people can do active imagination for hours, then it is wrong. If it is done rightly, one is exhausted after ten minutes, for it is a real effort and not a 'letting go'."
Page 102-103, Paradox (for Rania)
Page 107, frigidity in woman.
Page 126, Isis, light and dark side, witch and mother
"as Jung points out, the moment when the figure of the virgin Mary becomes more important was also the time of the witch persecutions. Since the symbol of the Great Mother was too one sided, the dark side got projected onto women"
Page 127, explains witches not attacking the king directly but through others. Also relates problems of the husband (Rania).
Page 180, "if a man is frightened of a woman he becomes impotent ... with women it is the other way around".
Page 214, "Jung also says ... one of the most wickedly destructive forces, psychologically speaking, is unused creative power".
Page 247, "absolutely ice-cold from rage"
Page 301, Magic is therefore the older form of spiritual and religious knowldge and activity which has been superseded by a new spiritual religious attitude" (old religious becomes "magic")
Page 320, Adler tree - useless, grows in bogs, devil uses it to beat grandmother, can be used to ward off evil.
Page 322, Sacrifice milk to underworld to subdue them but sacrifice wine to the gods.
Page 323, "The Devil is personified haste".

Glossary
Analysands
Freud: Id, Ego, Superego
Animus
Shadow
Projection
Affect
Libido

Hidden Images

Hidden Images: Games of Perception, Anamorphic Art, Illusion (From the Renaissance to the Present by Fred Leeman, 1975.
Notes
page 13, "Ideal means of camouflaging themes that contain double meanings"
Page 25, convex mirrors used to paint from (see plate 7 on page 29)
Page 74, "The Architecture here severs only to create a visual impression ... reality thus becomes theater"
Page 82-83, Boxes with interiors painted and peep holes place for these illusions.
Page 117, crystal ball anamortph example. 

George Kuchar Reader

The George Kuchar Reader, edited by Andrew Lampert, 2014
Page 27, "The common man makes movies to see himself, his life, and we see ourselves through him because we too are common men"
Page 32, Mekas on Kuchar, talk about home movies and 8mm.
Page 64, Blank screen with fishing pole example sited as a 1960s screening event.
Page 64-69, summary of 1960s avant garde styles.
Page 82, unused titles for films
Page 181, romantic description of a Bolex
Page 214-227, examples of his torrid alteration in his personal references.
Page 231-257, more alliteration in scripts.
Page 328, Harvard archiving all his work.