Writings - Essays - Manifestos

Writings - Essays - Manifestos

'The Persistence of Memory'

(as in Dali and the Surrealists)

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AVANT-GARDE FILM

OPSIS

HOLOGRAPHIC ART

WAVEFRONT MAGAZINE

3D VIDEO

VIRTUAL REALITY

CORRESPONDENCE - PROSE-POEMS

VANCOUVER FILM HISTORY

ART POLITIK - POLITICAL ART

ALCHEMY - SURREALITY

AVANT-GARDE FILMS:

'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)

'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)

Frameworks

'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

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

'Kanadian Kontent'

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

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

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

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)

EDITORIAL COMMENT: 'Five Definitions Around the Practice of Film Criticism' - by Michael Eliot-Hurst
(7K - HTML format)

EDITORIAL COMMENT: 'A Word about the View from Here' - by Tony Reif
(7K - HTML format)

On 'Film Theory':

'MENAGE A TROIS: Contemporary Film Theory, New Narrative and the Avant-Garde' - by Al Razutis
(80K - HTML format)

On 'Censorship':

'REGINA vs. Ian McLachlan, Susan Ditta, Al Razutis, David Bierk...' - by Al Razutis
(22K - HTML format)

OPSIS Vol. 1 No. 2/3 (1985)

The Canadian Journal of Avant-Garde and Political Cinema

(Editors: Michael Eliot-Hurst, Al Razutis)

EDITORIAL - by Al Razutis and Michael Eliot-Hurst
(7K HTML format)

On 'Structuralist - Psychoanalytic Film Theory':

Propositions for the Deconstruction of Cine-Structuralism... - by Al Razutis
(33K HTML format)

STEREOSCOPIC 3D VIDEO ART:

'WHEN IS 3D VIDEO AN ART?' -- Al Razutis

'THE CATERPILLAR'S NIGHTMARE' ( Adventures with Alice ) -- (Al Razutis)

HOLOGRAPHY - ART:

Essays by and about Jerry Pethick (in memoriam):

'Animals Dream' - presented in memoriam - Jerry Pethick

'Homeship/Faux Terrain' - Gary Dufour, Canadian Art, 1991 - presented in memoriam Jerry Pethick

Essay by Dan Schweitzer (in memoriam):

'Time vs. Space - Making Time' - by Dan Schweitzer (in memoriam)

Essays by Al Razutis:

'On-Line WAVEFRONT MAGAZINE' - (Al Razutis, Ed.)

'Reflections on Wavefront Magazine' by Al Razutis
-- with links to on-line articles

'Some Notes on the Art of Holography' -- Al Razutis
"New Spaces: The Holographer's Vision", pp. 23-26, Franklin Institute Press, 1979

Display Holography: 'Is it Science, Is it Art?' -- (Al Razutis)

'Holographic Art at Visual Alchemy' ('Leaving Plato's Cave with a lot of Baggage') by Al Razutis
-- with links to on-line image galleries

'Detailed Holographic History of Visual Alchemy 1972 - 1977 by Al Razutis
-- with links to subject essays

'MAD HATTER'S TEA TIME WITH ALICE' ( Adventures with Alice ) -- (Al Razutis)

WAVEFRONT MAGAZINE - International Journal of Holography

'Avant-Garde for Holography by way of Nemesis' - Fall 1986 - Al Razutis

'Art and Holography - Part 1' - Summer 1985 - Al Razutis

'Art and Holography - Part 2' - Fall 1985 - Al Razutis

'Lost in Time and Space' - Summer 1992 - Al Razutis

'On-Line WAVEFRONT MAGAZINE' - (Al Razutis, Ed.)

VIRTUAL REALITY:

'Personal Aesthetics' (VR Design) -- Al Razutis 2004

'Uroboros - Design/Concepts' -- Al Razutis

'Bodies(c) INCorporated' -- Essay (with illustrations) by Al Razutis, 1998

Academic papers cited on this site:

'Transmitting Architecture: The Transphysical City' -- Marcos Novak, C-Theory, 1999

'Global Algorithm 1.3: The Aesthetics of Virtual Worlds: Report From Los Angeles' -- Lev Manovich, C-Theory, 1998

CORRESPONDENCE - LIVING HISTORIES:

'Story for Shera' - Letter to Sheila Urbanowski (Dresden bombing, Marijonas Vilkelis) -- Al Razutis/August, 1999
- updated March 28, 2004

'Aether Vane' - Letter to Ana MacArthur -- Al Razutis/August, 1998

UNPUBLISHED NOVELS - SCREENPLAYS (EXTRACTS):

'ILIUM: EXPRESS' -- Al Razutis - 1970-1977 .PDF (Acrobat) FILES

'THE BEAST' - Screenplay fragments -- Al Razutis - 1970-1977 .PDF (Acrobat) FILES

ART POLITIK / POLITICAL ART:

'The charge that Anarchism is destructive...is one of the many falsehoods' -- Speech excerpt -- Emma Goldman, 1907

'Down with the CFCs! (Communists, Fascists, Clerics) -- Manifesto/Poem/Rant -- Al Razutis / April, 2003

'DOING_TIME' - Browser-interactive Web essay (Interactive - Cache intensive - USE I.E. Browser or Netscape 7 only) -- Al Razutis

ALCHEMY / SURREALITY:

References and links to off-site works

Surrealism and Imagination - Archemical Morphologies - Photomorphosis and Surrealism - enter the arts & writings of J. Karl Bogartte

'Dark Machines of the Concubine' and 'Marvelous Works of Unreasonable Beauty' - J. Karl Bogartte

Surrealist Resources and Links - 'the most comprehensive list of Surrealist links on the internet'

"Perpetual Motion in the Land of Milk and Honey" - - AL + AL - at the Centre of Attention

'Curating Statements' - Centre of Attention - Pierre Coinde (selections by A. R.)

Writings - Essays - Manifestos

'The Persistence of Memory'

AVANT-GARDE FILMS:

VANCOUVER FILM HISTORY

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VANCOUVER FILM ORGS

OPSIS Vol. 1 No. 1 (1984)

The Canadian Journal of Avant-Garde and Political Cinema

(Editors: Michael Eliot-Hurst, Al Razutis, Tony Reif)

OPSIS Vol. 1 No. 2/3 (1985)

The Canadian Journal of Avant-Garde and Political Cinema

(Editors: Michael Eliot-Hurst, Al Razutis)

STEREOSCOPIC 3D VIDEO ART:

HOLOGRAPHY - ART:

WAVEFRONT MAGAZINE - International Journal of Holography

VIRTUAL REALITY:

CORRESPONDENCE - LIVING HISTORIES:

UNPUBLISHED NOVELS - SCREENPLAYS (EXTRACTS):

ART POLITIK / POLITICAL ART:

ALCHEMY / SURREALITY:

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