Visiting Professor of Film History and F.I.L.M. Director Scott MacDonald, on-leave this semester, spoke on cinema and the American landscape at the San Francisco Exploratorium and delivered the inaugural presentation at the new storefront theater of San Francisco's Studio for Urban Projects on March 27.
MacDonald's interview with film director Todd Haynes (Safe, Far from Heaven, I'm Not There) is the cover story in the current issue of Film Quarterly. The interview began as a public event at the Portland Museum of Art (Oregon) last fall and continued by e-mail. MacDonald focuses on Haynes's roots in avant-garde film. Haynes counts Sally Potter's Thriller, Kenneth Anger's Fireworks, Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's Riddles of the Sphinx, and Jean Genet's Un chant d'amour as important inspirations.
MacDonald's interview with film director Todd Haynes (Safe, Far from Heaven, I'm Not There) is the cover story in the current issue of Film Quarterly. The interview began as a public event at the Portland Museum of Art (Oregon) last fall and continued by e-mail. MacDonald focuses on Haynes's roots in avant-garde film. Haynes counts Sally Potter's Thriller, Kenneth Anger's Fireworks, Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's Riddles of the Sphinx, and Jean Genet's Un chant d'amour as important inspirations.
