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Series 3: Graphic
Materials
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BOX-FOLDER 4/10 |
Photos,
undated
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3 black-and-white photos : 5 x 6 in. and
smaller |
BOX-FOLDER 4/11 |
"Painted Post Country,"
undated
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10 color slides : 35 mm |
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Series 4: Moving
Images
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Processing work in progress. The list of projects minimally processed so far
reflects only the contents of this collection, and is not exhaustive. Bruce
Jackson and Diane Christian have collaborated on the following films: Death Row, Robert Creeley: Willy's Reading, William August May, Out of Order, Creeley, and Robert Creeley: The Persistence of Verse (a conversation between Robert Creeley and Bruce Jackson, 2001).
Both directed, edited, and produced these films. Jackson did the
cinematography and Christian recorded the sound. Running times for all films
are approximate. Descriptions of these films, and other film highlights from
the collection, appear below. |
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"Hard Language,"
1974
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Jackson and Christian organized this symposium at SUNY-Buffalo (now
University at Buffalo). Participants included: Leslie Fiedler (American
critic), Angus Fletcher (literary scholar), Frederick Jameson (critic),
René Girard (literary theorist), Neville Dyson-Hudson
(anthropologist), William Bossert (mathematical biologist), Roger
Abrahams (folklorist), Richard Macksey (literary scholar), Nathan Lyons
(photographer and photo historian), Jackson, and Christian. |
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Death Row, 1979
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Jackson conducted extensive interviews with inmates on death row at Ellis
Unit, in Texas. The film documents the daily lives of the inmates, from
work to recreation, from mealtimes to their personal thoughts about
their lives and imminent fate. Some employees of the prison are also
interviewed. 60 min. |
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Services Rendered, 1979
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Jackson produced, did sound, and some camera for this film, which was
directed by Andy Ferullo. Approximately 15 vignettes of working people
in Buffalo, at work and talking about their work. 60 min. |
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I Found a Feather, 1980
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A short fiction film Jackson did not finish. He shot the footage near
Buffalo, in the Alabama Swamp Complex, part of the Iroquois National
Wildlife Refuge (with its headquarters located in Alabama, New
York). |
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Robert Creeley: Willy's Reading, 1982
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In this film Creeley reads drafts of a poem he wrote to honor the birth
of Willy, his son. 16 min. |
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William August May, 1982
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A documentary about William August May, a lifelong deep water fisherman,
and the changes to the California environment he has observed. 18
min. |
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Michael McClure, 1982
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An unfinished documentary on the life of poet Michael McClure. |
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Out of Order, 1983
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Interviews with six former nuns, as they talk about their lives as nuns
and after leaving holy orders: what made them decide to join and later
why they left, as well as their experiences readjusting to the secular
world. Diane Christian, a former nun, is one of the interviewees. 89
min. |
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Creeley, 1988
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A film about Creeley's background and development as a poet, including
interviews with him and others, plus conversations with him. 59 min. |
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William Kunstler, 1988
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An unfinished documentary on the life of civil rights leader and
formidable lawyer William Kunstler. 18 min. |
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Robert Creeley: the Persistence of Verse, 2001
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A conversation between Creeley and Bruce Jackson. 17 min. |
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Cummins Wide: Photographs from the Arkansas Prison, 2008
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Footage taken at Cummins Unit, a prison in Lincoln County, Arkansas.
Jackson had considered making a film during the time he was making the
photographs that would be in Killing Time, Inside the Wire, Cummins Wide, and other books and exhibits. With that future project in
mind, he shot this footage, using a Sony Portapak. According to Jackson,
he used an edited version of this footage to get a grant to help fund
the making of Death Row. |