The sudden death of filmmaker and writer Marjorie Keller in 1994 silenced the voice of a major contributor to the art of the moving image. But both on film and in words, Keller left behind a unique body of work that has been undeservedly overlooked in the decades since her death.
Through a collection of essays by contemporary film scholars combined with a selection of Keller's own published writing, In the Absence of Marjorie Keller explores both Keller's seminal role in bringing a feminist awareness to the history of experimental film and the unique personal vision that pervades her own work as a film artist.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Introduction - Robin Blaetz
Part 1: CRITICAL ESSAYS
- “Marjorie Keller: The Untutored Eye” - P. Adams Sitney
- “In the Absence of Marjorie Keller” - Robin Blaetz
- “The Multiplicity of Language in Marjorie Keller’s Oeuvre” - Alicia Byrnes
- “Objection: Marjorie Keller’s Expansive Feminism” - Sarah Keller
- “Dreams of Childhood Come True: Marjorie Keller’s She/Va” - Giulia Rho
- “The Umbilical Cut: Filmic Form and Reproductive Politics in Marjorie Keller’s 1977 Misconception” - Helena Shaskevich
- “The Radical Intimacy of Marjorie Keller’s 8mm Films” - Steve Anker
- “Recollections of Marjorie Keller: An Interview with Saul Levine” - Mary Filippo
- “‘With Some Protest from Margie’: Marjorie Keller’s Administrative Tenure at the Film-Makers’ Cooperative” - Josh Guilford
Part 2: WRITING BY KELLER
- Levine, Saul. “The Notes by Saul Levine.” In The Book of Saul, a handmade book, 1975. Author’s Collection.
- “Rabbit’s Moon by Kenneth Anger.” Film Culture 67-68-69 (1979).
- “Charles Wright’s Sorted Details.” Ten Years of Living Cinema. New York: Collective for Living Cinema, 1982.
- “Review: Murder Psalm.” Film Quarterly 37, no. 3 (Spring 1984): 49-57.
- “Brakhage Once and Again.” Quarterly Review of Film Studies 9 (1984): 348-52. (review of Robert Haller, ed. The Brakhage Scrapbook and Gerald R. Barrett and Wendy Brabner, eds. Stan Brakhage: A Guide to References and Resources).
- “Review of E. Ann Kaplan’s Women and Film.” Millennium Film Journal 14-15 (1984-85): 43-47.
- “Is This What You Were Born For?” XDream: An Underground Film Magazine 1, no. 1 (Autumn 1986): 1-5.
- “The Apron Strings of Jonas Mekas.” In To Free the Cinema, edited by David James. Princeton University Press, 1992.
About the Authors
Scott Hammen is a filmmaker and the founder of Eyewash Books.
Robin Blaetz is emerita professor of film studies at Mount Holyoke College.
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