The Films of Richard Myers

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by Richard Myers

Type: Studies
Subject: Director > Richard Myers
Keywords: Richard Myers, experimental, director
Publishing date: 2015
Publisher: The Kent State University Press
Language: English

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Hardcover • 134 pages
12 ¼ x 9 ¼ inches (31 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-0-615-81890-0

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Book Presentation:
Winner of the 2014 Cleveland Arts Prize, Richard Myers has been producing experimental and documentary films for over 40 years. The Films of Richard Myers chronicles his work, along with descriptions and reviews by critics such as Roger Ebert, Arthur Knight, Roger Greenspun, Kevin Thomas, and Amos Vogel, as well as short reviews by Stan Brakhage and Pauline Kael. The major part of the book includes 180 stills from the films, all photographed by Myers. While his background is in painting, printmaking, and still photography, Myers emerged as a filmmaker in the early 1960s when independent experimental films were truly independent. Myers conceived, wrote, photographed, directed, and edited the films. His actors are family and friends, from his wife Pat to his grandmother, mother, and son, to Kent State University faculty and students. Myers’s films have been shown all over the United States, from the Cleveland Cinematheque to the Museum of Modern Art, from the Ann Arbor and Chicago Film Festivals to the Whitney Museum of American Art. He has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, The American Film Institute, and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2014 he was awarded the Cleveland Arts Prize.

About the Author:
Richard Myers’s films have been screened all over the United States, from the Cleveland Cinematheque to the Museum of Modern Art, from the Ann Arbor and Chicago Film Festivals to the Whitney Museum of American Art. Myers has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, The American Film Institute, and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2014 Myers received the Cleveland Arts Prize Lifetime Achievement Award.

Press Reviews:
There is probably no filmmaker more successful in transmitting his imagination to the screen than Ohio experimentalist Richard Myers. . . . The maker of Deathstyles, Akran, and 37-73 becomes more ambitious with each film. In Floorshow he presents a rich stream-ofconsciousness flow of images that encompasses past, present, and fantasy. In addition, it is a contemplation of the filmmaking process and film aesthetics as well as life and art. . . . What Myers projects is an accurately personal vision of life so beautifully shaped and paced that we're able to connect with it even if we cannot expect to decipher its private meanings. --Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

Most of Myers s films are surrealistic works based on his dreams. For Myers, dreams comprise an indispensable link in self-understanding. He reveals in their ability to illuminate the darker corners of our consciousness those recesses removed from rational thought and everyday reality . . . Myers s filmic dream journeys liberate the viewer by dynamiting the walls between reality and illusion, past and present. They throw logic and rational understanding out the window. They are less objects to watch than places to inhibit carnivals of the unconscious with midway attractions that range from collage imagery to free associations. --John Ewing, Director of the Cleveland Cinematheque and Curator of Film, Cleveland Museum of Art

Most of Myers s films are surrealistic works based on his dreams. For Myers, dreams comprise an indispensable link in self-understanding. He reveals in their ability to illuminate the darker corners of our consciousness those recesses removed from rational thought and everyday reality . . . Myers s filmic dream journeys liberate the viewer by dynamiting the walls between reality and illusion, past and present. They throw logic and rational understanding out the window. They are less objects to watch than places to inhibit carnivals of the unconscious with midway attractions that range from collage imagery to free associations. --John Ewing, Director of the Cleveland Cinematheque and Curator of Film, Cleveland Museum of Art

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