Beautifully put, Adam. Amazing how much Terry accomplished with no institutional support.
Condolences to Mary and of course the birds. He’ll be missed. Jeff Kreines Kinetta j...@kinetta.com kinetta.com Sent from iPhone. > On Aug 2, 2020, at 8:09 AM, Scott MacDonald <smacd...@hamilton.edu> wrote: > > > Thanks, Adam, for alerting us to the passing of Terry Cannon. > > On the wall of the room where I keep my VHS/DVD/BluRays and watch films hangs > a beautiful poster from Pasadena Filmforum, a souvenir of a visit to Pasadena > to present a program of single-shot films in 1981. Patricia and I were on a > cross-country trip, my first visit to the American West, to interview > filmmakers (Morgan Fisher, George Kuchar, Robert Nelson, Bruce Conner) for > what would become the first Critical Cinema collection of interviews > (California Press, 1988). We stayed with Terry and Mary, sleeping on their > floor, for several days--and talking well into the nights. As I remember, a > hamster rolled round the little apartment in a plastic ball. > > It would be impossible to overstate how lovely a man Terry was. His > commitment to avant-garde cinema and his light-hearted labors in service of > it were obvious and innovative. Pasadena Filmforum was a fun venue--though I > think I bored the audience that night (Morgan Fisher came up after the show > to tell me, "In LA, we don't talk so much before screenings")--though the > audience had been attentive to the films: as I remember, Larry Gottheim's Fog > Line, J. J. Murphy's Sky Blue Water Light Sign, Bob Huot's Snow, Hollis > Frampton's Lemon, and one of Morgan's films--probably Production Stills. > > Terry's SPIRAL was an unusual film journal--thoroughly non-academic, but > valuable, high-spirited, and a pleasure to read. He and Willie Varela would > edit an issue of The Cinemanews (née the Canyon Cinemanews), No. 81: 2-6, > focusing on Super-8mm filmmaking, an early recognition/exploration of the > achievements of small-gauge filmmaking--just one of Terry's collaborative > projects. His curating and his editing and publishing were, for years, > important for filmmakers, cineastes, and fledgling film scholars. > > As Adam has said, Terry moved on to other pursuits; and after a time, I lost > touch with him--but my interaction with Terry always was and always will be a > deeply pleasurable memory. He was a beautiful soul. RIP. > > Scott > > On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 3:04 AM Adam Hyman <amleo...@earthlink.net> wrote: >> Today we lost our friend and visionary founder Terry Cannon. Terry was a >> writer, an editor, a curator, a librarian, an archivist, and incredible >> advocate for his students, colleagues, and generations of filmmakers. He >> believed in paying artists for their work, the importance of community >> collaboration, and that arts spaces should be welcoming and risk-taking. >> He founded Filmforum (née Pasadena Filmforum) in 1975 when he was 22 years >> old and served as Executive Director for eight years. As Filmforum’s >> Executive Director, Cannon curated programs including “Show for the Eyes,” >> the first mail art film exhibition, “Films Found in a Box,” and “El Ojo >> Apasionado: The Passionate Eye,” along with creating our mission of >> promoting a greater understanding of media art, and the role of the artists >> and curators who create and present it, by providing a forum for >> independently produced, noncommercial work which has little opportunity of >> reaching the general public. >> Cannon subsequently founded the arts publication Gosh! In 1978, and Spiral >> in 1984, which featured writing and artwork by experimental film luminaries >> including James Broughton, Willie Varela, Marjorie Keller, Pat O’Neill, >> Janis Lipzin, Kurt Kren, and Bruce Conner. He also edited the automotive >> publication Skinned Knuckles for over 25 years until 2005. >> In his time at Filmforum, he befriended the artist and filmmaker Sara >> Kathryn Arledge, and eventually, after Arledge’s death, he and his wife Mary >> saved many of her paintings and painted slides when they were on the verge >> of destruction. They formed the Sara Kathryn Arledge Memorial Trust, and >> were instrumental in the exhibition of Arledge’s work at the Armory Center >> for the Arts in Pasadena in 2019, which brought Arledge's work to a new >> generation. >> In 1996 Cannon founded the Baseball Reliquary, a nonprofit organization >> “dedicated to fostering an appreciation of American art and culture through >> the context of baseball history” Beginning in 1999 the Reliquary began >> honoring important figures from baseball’s history by adding them to its >> Shrine of the Eternals, designed to elect “individuals on merits other than >> statistics and playing ability...for a deeper understanding and appreciation >> of baseball than has heretofore been provided by “Halls of Fame” in the more >> traditional and conservative institutions. Honorees have included Jim >> Abbott, Dick Allen, Jim Bouton, Dizzy Dean, Curt Flood, Josh Gibson, Roger >> Maris, Manny Mota, Don Newcombe, Satchel Paige, Luis Tiant, Bob Uecker, >> Fernando Valenzuela, and Maury Wills. The lauded tribute to the intersection >> of art and baseball functions as a traveling museum, bringing curiosities >> and wonders to sites throughout Southern California. The Reliquary’s >> collections now serve as the foundation for the Institute for Baseball >> Studies at Whittier College. >> In 2010, Alhambra High School, where Cannon served as librarian for many >> years, named him as Employee of the Year. That same year he helped the >> student group Artists Anonymous organize the exhibition “Kaleidoscope Eyes” >> about the 1960s. Cannon subsequently worked at the Allendale Branch of the >> Pasadena Public Library, where he hosted discussions with a wide variety of >> guests during his tenure, including musicians, filmmakers, writers, and >> curators, while being a charming and helpful librarian for the community. >> As a lifelong creator of non-profit organizations, unusual magazines, and as >> a librarian, Cannon was committed to the unheralded and idiosyncratic, and >> to the regenerative and delightful possibilities of community and art that >> continues to inspire the organizations he founded and the people he touched. >> Cannon is survived by wife Mary Cannon and siblings Phil, Barbara, and Nancy. >> >> An oral history with Terry Cannon: >> https://www.alternativeprojections.com/oral-histories/terry-cannon/ >> >> An article by him about the early years of Filmforum: >> https://www.alternativeprojections.com/articles/filmforum-the-pasadena-years-1975-1983/ >> >> http://www.baseballreliquary.org/ >> >> https://www.armoryarts.org/exhibitions/2019/arledge/ >> >> https://www.whittier.edu/news/baseballinstitute >> >> https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/01/sports/baseball/01reliquary.html >> _______________________________________________ >> FrameWorks mailing list >> FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com >> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
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