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Screenplay based on "Portrait of a Young Man Trying to Eat the Sun" the life, death & legacy of d.a. levy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents From the dustjacket, "Sidney Peterson was one of the originators of the American avant-garde cinema. The five films he made in San Francisco between 1947 and 1950 have become classics; they have influenced the cinematic education of many of the best filmmakers of the subsequent generations. For years Peterson had an underground reputation as a man of immense and arcane learning, surprising wit, and unorthodox insights into the working of advanced cinema and modern art. In The Dark of the Screen he writes about the cinematic experience and his role as a filmmaker. It is a book in the tradition and spirit of Marcel Duchamp. Elegantly written, drolly irreverent, it tells the story of his involvement with cinema during what has been called the San Francisco Renaissance (1945-50) and his subsequent adventures as the first consultant on the artistic future of television for the Museum of Modern Art in New York. After attempting to make a documentary film about Kwakiutl Indians, he worked...

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It should be noted that his book entitled "Cycle" (1964) hand printed at Indiana University is not listed in the chronology of his works published in this catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.