Eyes Upside Down : Visionary Filmmakers and the Heritage of Emerson

Introduction: Emersonian Poetics
1. Marie Menken and the Somatic Camera
2. Ian Hugo and Superimposition
3. Stan Brakhage's Autobiography as a Cinematic Sequence
4. Jonas Mekas and the Diary Film
5. Hollis Frampton and the Spectre of Narrative
6. Robert Beavers's Winged Distance/Sightless Measure: The Cycle of the Ephebe
7. Beavers's Second Cycle: The Past in the Present - The Present in the Past
8. Andrew Noren and the Open-Ended Cinematic Sequence
9. Ernie Gehr and the Axis of Primary Thought
10. Warren Sonbert's Movements in a Concerto
11. Brakhage and the Tales of the Tribes
12. Frampton's Magellan
13. Abigail Child: Textual Self-Reliance
14. Su Friedrich: "Giving Birth to Myself"
15. Brakhage: Meditative Cinema
16. Beavers's Third Cycle: The Theater of Gesture
17. Mekas's Retrospection
Conclusion: Perfect Exhilaration
Appendix: Chronology of Films

Keywords: PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism PER004030