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Lectures and Lecture-Screenings by Fred Camper

I've been showing films and talking about them since the late 1960s, in places such as: New York; Chicago; Los Angeles; San Francisco; Toronto; Naples; Turin; Poland; Madrid, Brazil; Hong Kong; Zagreb; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Norman, Oklahoma.

Past events:
Showings of Stan Brakhage films I've curated and lectured on (since 2002):
A Brakhage program at Colby College, Waterville, Maine, May 5, 2016.
I curated and spoke on a six-program Brakhage series in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 7-12, 2009.
I spoke on 23rd Psalm Branch at Doc Films, January 30, 2009.
I spoke on a program of Brakhage films in Carbondale, Illinois, on March 5, 2005. [I didn't "curate" this program, but suggested a few of the films shown.]
I presented a lecture-screening on Brakhage in Madrid on October 28, 2004.
Stan Brakhage, Modernist Paradox, and the Interactive Viewer, lecture-screening in Toledo, Ohio, August 2004.
A program of late films, New York, May 15, 2004, curated by Fred Camper, presented as part of the Whitney Biennial.
Four programs of Brakhage films I curated and spoke on in Hong Kong, April 2004.
Four programs of Brakhage films I curated and spoke on in Poland, December 2003.
Four programs of Brakhage films I curated and spoke on in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, October, 2003.
A program of Brakhage films that I curated and spoke on, Boston, Massachusetts, May 28, 2003.
A presentation and discussion of Stan Brakhage's "...", Reels 1-3 in New York.

Selected other fiilm programs I've curated and/or lectured on (since 1996 only, beginning with the most recent):
Fragmentation and Form in Experimental Film, a lecture-screening at Yale Univesity, October 8, 2011.
I curated and presented a program of non-traditional documentaries at Union Docs, Brooklyn, March 26, 2011, and published a related article. Photos of the event are online.
I introduced and answered questions on the films of Christopher Maclaine at the University of Chicago's Doc Films, March 2, 2010.
I introduced and answered questions on Hollis Frampton's Hapax Legomena, February 22, 2010, at the University of Chicago's Doc Films, May 30, 2007.
I introduced and answered questions on Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows at the University of Chicago's Doc Films, January 30, 2007.
I spoke on Fritz Lang's Fury at Northwestern University's Block Cinema, January 12, 2007.
New Videos from North America, a video program I presented in Croatia
The Anti-Heroic in Recent American Avant-Garde Film, a lecture screening in Zagreb, Croatia, September 23, 2005.
I interviewed Peter Kubelka on stage in Minneapolis on March 23, 2005 as part of his U.S. tour.
A screening of a film of my own in New York.
Two lecture-screenings, Cinema and Industry and Cinema and Nature, presented on October 21 and 22, 2002, in Naples, Italy, as part of a six-program series presented by E-M Arts.
An introduction to avant-garde film in Connecticut.
Modesty: Cinematic Retreats from Grand Ambitions, Boulder, Colorado, November 5, 2001.
A free lecture-screening including films by Arthur Lipsett and Stan Brakhage, Chicago, June 2, 2001.
Nature and Cinema

Selected other events:
Participant and speaker, Illuminating the Shadows, a conference on film criticism, April 21-23, 2011.


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