Notes on the Buffalo Conference Autobiography in American Independent Cinema (1973)

During the 1970s I shot helped to make or commissioned about ten document films mainly about filmmakers This film is one of them It was made with Dan Ochiva who acted as cameraman on about half of the footage I shot the rest and then edited the film It is a record of a conference held at the State University of New York at Buffalo on March 2225 1973 Among the participants filmed were Gerald OGrady who organized the conference Will Hindle Stan Brakhage Jonas Mekas Robert Creeley Bruce Baillie Scott Bartlett Hollis Frampton Ken Jacobs Ed Pincus Stan Vanderbeek Ed Emshwiller Sally Dixon James Cox This footage will eventually become part of my film PEOPLE PLACES THE 1970S R H