Writings - Essays - Manifestos

AVANT-GARDE FILMS:

• 'Al Razutis - Iconoclast' - Anthology of writings edited by Mike Hoolboom / 1989-2009 -- 5.8 MB PDF file



• 'To and From SeNef2004' -- Al Razutis / 2004



• 'Avant-Garde: These Films - This Site' -- Al Razutis / 2002-03



• 'Film Studies 101' (the 'hegemony of marxist-psychoanalytic film studies') -- Al Razutis / 2002-03



Reference:   Lights, Camera, Action. Marxism, Semiotics, Narratology. -- David Weddle, Los Angeles Times, July 13, 2003



• 'Canada's 'media art history' and false claims' -- Al Razutis / June, 2002-03



• 'Notes on the Retrospective - EMAF 2002' -- Al Razutis / June, 2002



• EMAF Razutis Retrospective Catalog -- EMAF 2002 Complete TEXTS with PHOTOS / April, 2002 -- (746 K .PDF file)



• 'No Borders Here'   The Gig by Grant Shilling (Al Razutis biographical interview) 2002 -- ( 300k jpeg image file)



• 'Film to Video / Video to Film...' -- Bruce Jenkins (on Razutis' / Bridge at Electrical Storm)
  -- MAGNETIC NORTH Catalog, Walker Art Center, 2000.



• 'Three Decades of Rage' - Razutis Interview (.doc file) - by Mike Hoolboom, 1989 (.PDF file version 100k)
  First published in 'Inside the Pleasure Dome - Fringe Film in Canada', 1997, (Coach House Books)
  
  
• ' Between Agonism and the Autonomy of Art: The Case of Al Razutis' by William C. Wees
  (Originally published in The Cantrills Filmnotes, 1989) - HTML

Frameworks List Postings:


'Re: Virtual Cinema and the Web' -- Al Razutis

-- posted on FRAMEWORKS, 1998.



'Virtual Cinema and the Web' -- Al Razutis

-- posted on FRAMEWORKS, 1998.



'A Pilgrim from Sprocket-less Space' -- Al Razutis

-- posted on FRAMEWORKS, 1996.



'What is Cinema Now?' -- Al Razutis

-- posted on FRAMEWORKS, 1996.


'Forget about it being "ART"' -- Al Razutis

-- posted on FRAMEWORKS, 1996.

• RESPONSE: 'Razutis - Aside' -- Al Razutis

-- On the Experimental Film Congress 'historical revisionisms' in Frameworks, 2002


• MANIFESTO: 'Imagination vs. MacWorld' -- Al Razutis 1998

-- with special attention given to 'Kanadian Kontent'


• MANIFESTO: 'Experimental Film Congress' - Denunciation of...

-- 1989/signed by 76 film-makers


• 'Nothing Personal' - Al Razutis 1989
  First published in Independent Eye, 1989, (Mike Hoolboom, ed.)



• 'On the Problem of the Autonomy of Art, or Splice' - Al Razutis 1987 (JPEG image)
  -- Text of performance with film and ventrilloquist's dummy by Razutis at Pacific Cinematheque 1986,
  published in SPEED, 1987, (Doug Chomyn, Scott Haynes, Oliver Hockenhull, ed.)
  'On the Problem of the Autonomy of Art, or Splice' (HTML page) Film description and links to texts
  -- by Maria Insell, Michael Snow, Patricia Gruben, David Rimmer, Joyce Wieland, Ross McLaren, Al Razutis, 1986.



• Interview between David Bryant and Al Razutis - SPIRAL, January 1986 -- Acrobat PDF file (235K)
  First published in SPIRAL, January 1986,

VANCOUVER FILM HISTORY

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• 'Recovering Lost History: Vancouver Avant-Garde Cinema 1960-1969' - Al Razutis
  Vancouver Art and Artists, pp. 160-173, Vancouver Art Gallery, 1983



• 'Critical Perspectives on Vancouver Avant-Garde Cinema 1970-1983' - Al Razutis, Tony Reif
  Vancouver Art and Artists, pp. 286-299, Vancouver Art Gallery, 1983



• 'David Rimmer: A Critical Analysis' - by Al Razutis
  Vancouver Art Gallery, 1981



• 'Spiders in the Film Studies Web' - personal reflections on teaching, anarchism, orgs,
  and on SFU, ECIAD programs and faculty - by Al Razutis 2003

ON VANCOUVER FILM ORGS:

• 'Cineworks Beginnings' - 'A Personal Chronology' (1979-2001) by Peg Campbell,
  Cineworks 2000, pp. 7-16, Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society, 2001



Manifesto: "Cinema Art", by Al Razutis - cited in the above and dated / distributed March 28, 1980



• 'Why Cineworks? - by Flick Harrison - critical online essay, July 2001



• Intermedia Vancouver Film History via: Intermedia in 69 archives hosted by Gregg Simson and Ed Varney, poets of the actual.

OPSIS Vol. 1 No. 1 (1984)

The Canadian Journal of Avant-Garde and Political Cinema
(Editors: Michael Eliot-Hurst, Al Razutis, Tony Reif)