P. Adams Sitney
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1944|08|09}}
| birth_place = New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.{{cite news |title=Sitney's Take |first=F. Thurston |last=Drake |url=http://dailyprincetonian.com/street/2000/10/sitneys-take/ |publisher=The Daily Princetonian |date=19 October 2000 |accessdate=29 June 2013 |quote=After the pleasantries and questions—'When and where were you born?' 'August 9, 1944, New Haven, [Connecticut]'—I tossed out what I thought would be a great question, a real fast ball.}}
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| occupation = Film historian
| known_for =Co-founding the Anthology Film Archives
First to describe structural film
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P. Adams Sitney (born August 9, 1944 in New Haven, Connecticut), is a historian of American avant-garde cinema. He is known as the author of Visionary Film, one of the first books on the history of experimental film in the United States.[https://www.amazon.com/Visionary-Film-American-Avant-Garde-1943-2000/dp/019514886X Amazon.com: Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde, 1943-2000, 3rd edition]
Life
Sitney attended Yale University, where he received an A.B. in classics in 1967 and a Ph.D. in comparative literature in 1980. He co-founded the Anthology Film Archives in 1970[https://www.undergroundfilmjournal.com/anthology-film-archives-the-first-screenings-1970/ Anthology Film Archives: The First Screenings, 1970|Underground Film Journal] and, along with Jonas Mekas, Peter Kubelka, Ken Kelman, and James Broughton, served as one of the members of the Anthology Film Archives Essential Cinema{{cite news |title=Anthology Film Archives' Essential Cinema Repertory Collection |first=Mike |last=Everleth |url=http://www.undergroundfilmjournal.com/anthology-film-archives-essential-cinema-repertory-collection/ |newspaper=Underground Film News |publisher=Underground Film Journal |date=3 May 2010 |accessdate=29 June 2013}} film selection committee. He is currently Professor of Visual Arts at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University.{{cite web |url=https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/padams/ |title=P. Adams Sitney}}
Sitney was a fixture at New York University's doctoral program in its new cinema studies department in 1970. Before moving to Princeton, he also taught at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. He has been a major critical leader and intellectual supporter of the New American Cinema avant-garde movement.[http://www.zine-eskola.eus/en/elias-querejeta-zine-eskola/news/2018-02-21/P-Adams-Sitney-will-hold-a-conference-invited-by-EQZE P. Adams Sitney will hold a conference invited by EQZE-Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola]
Four main techniques that Sitney identified for structural film are: fixed camera position; flicker effect; re-photography off the screen; and loop printing. These techniques were implemented by experimental filmmakers in the 1960s to create cinema "in which the shape of the whole film is pre-determined and simplified".{{cite book |title=A history of video art: the development of form and function |last=Chris |first=Meigh-Andrews |date=2006 |publisher=Berg |isbn=9781845202194 |location=Oxford |oclc=69486182 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofvideoar0000meig }}
See also
References
External links
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=eMe-3gdh7HMC&q=%22P.+Adams+Sitney%22+-wikipedia Visionary Film on Google Books]
- [https://archive.org/stream/Visionary_Film_The_American_AvantGarde/Visionary_Film_The_American_AvantGarde_djvu.txt Full text of the book on Internet Archive]
- [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1566250/ P. Adams Sitney] on IMDb
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