November 1, 1972
John Whitney was a guest on the inaugural episode of Screening Room in November, 1972. He showed and discussed Permutations, 1-2-3...Read more
January 1, 1973
Les Blank, along with music writer Peter Guralnick, appeared on Screening Room in January 1973 to discuss his recent work and scre...Read more
March 1, 1973
In March 1973, Hilary Harris visited Screening Room to screen and discuss films such as Longhorns, Highway, and Seawards the Great...Read more
April 1, 1973
Bruce Baillie appeared on Screening Room in April 1973. He screened excerpts from his films On Sundays, The Gymnasts, To Parsifal,...Read more
April 2, 1973
Robert Fulton appeared on Screening Room in April 1973 to screen and discuss Machu Pichu and Reality's Invisible.
April 3, 1973
Jan Lenica appeared on Screening Room in April, 1973. He screened and discussed excerpts from his films Fantorro, Monsieur Tete, A and Labyrinth.
April 4, 1973
John and Faith Hubley appeared on Screening Room in April 1973 to discuss and screen their films Eggs, The Hat, Children of the Sun, and Zuckerkandl.
May 1, 1973
Stan Brakhage first appeared on Screening Room in May, 1973 to screen and discuss the films Eye Myth, Desist Film, Wonder Ring, Wi...Read more
June 1, 1973
Derek Lamb appeared on Screening Room in June 1973 with over a dozen films and film clips that demonstrated a wide range of animation techniques.
June 2, 1973
Along with visual anthropologist Edmund Carpenter, Emile de Antonio appeared on Screening Room in June 1973 to screen and discuss ...Read more
June 3, 1973
Ricky Leacock visited Screening Room on June 15, 1973, with Al Mecklenburg and Jon Rosenfeld. He demonstrates super-8 sync technol...Read more
June 3, 1973
In this episode of Screening Room, Lawder demonstrates the intricacies of his home-made optical printer and shows examples of what...Read more
February 17, 1975
Caroline Leaf’s animated work springs from her expert storytelling and pioneering animation techniques. One significant contributi...Read more
February 18, 1975
Richard P. Rogers (1944-2001) was a renowned producer and director of nonfiction films, and a gifted teacher and mentor who taught...Read more
February 19, 1975
Independent animator and painter Suzan Pitt, whose surreal and psychological films have gained her worldwide acclaim, continually ...Read more
February 20, 1975
Ed Emshwiller started out as an abstract expressionist painter and an award-winning science fiction illustrator before becoming a ...Read more
February 21, 1975
In this episode from 1975, ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax is the guest and viewers are treated to a partitioned screening of his pat...Read more
October 30, 1975
In September 1975, Lamb returned to the program to screen and discuss the films The Last Cartoon Man and The Psychic Parrot.
March 21, 1976
Breer chats with Gardner about his approach to filmmakin'. He screens RECREATION, A MAN AND HIS DOG OUT FOR AIR, 69, GULLS AND BUO...Read more
March 22, 1976
Independent animator George Griffin has dedicated himself to the pursuit of animation as an art form. Originally from Tennessee, h...Read more
January 1, 1977
A major figure in the American experimental film movement of the 1960s and ‘70s and a widely published theorist, Hollis Frampton mad...Read more
January 2, 1977
Drawing on traditions of 19th-century landscape painting and still photography, Peter Hutton’s contemplative, meticulously compose...Read more
January 3, 1977
Relentless exploration of the nature of performance, the construction of meaning, and the relations of the sexes has guided Yvonne...Read more
March 22, 1977
Canadian Michael Snow has worked in painting, sculpture, and music as well as film, where he has proved one of the most renowned a...Read more
April 20, 1977
Often called "the father of West Coast independent cinema," James Broughton (1913-1999) considered himself to be, first and foremo...Read more
January 9, 1979
He returned to Screening Room in January 1979 to screen and discuss: • Organism (full film, 18:59) • The Nuer (excerpt, 6:31) •...Read more
April 18, 1979
Robert Fulton was an extraordinary non-fiction filmmaker and gifted aerial cinematographer who left a legacy of remarkable films s...Read more
July 8, 1980
Jean Rouch appeared on Screening Room in July 1980 and screened Les Maitres Fous as well as several film excerpts including Rhythm...Read more
November 18, 1980
Brakhage returned to the program in the fall of 1980, where he showed Window, two excerpts from Short Films: 1975, Roman Numeral S...Read more
October 13, 1981
Here is Jonas Mekas interview with Robert Gardner in October of 81. Fantastic insights into Mekas' work and other experimental filmmakers.