Robert A. Haller Vita & Selected Publications (2015)
Born in Pittsburgh, 6 July 1942
Marriage to Amy Greenfield, 1980
Education
1965 B.A., History, University of Notre Dame
1966 M.A., International Relations, Notre Dame
1963-66 Film Critic, Scholastic periodical, Notre Dame
Employment History
1966-67 Director of Public Relations, Alliance State College, PA
1967-69 Director of Publications, Bloomsburg State College, PA
1969-73 Assistant Editor, Journal of Economic Literature, Univ. of Pittsburgh
1973-79 Executive Director, Pittsburgh Film-Makers Inc.
1980-84 Executive Director, Anthology Film Archives
1985-90 Grants Officer/Film Curator, Staten Island Institute of Arts/Sciences
1988-90 Board Consultant, then Director, Film-Makers Cooperative
1990-95 Director, Anthology Film Archives
1996- Director of Collections, Special Projects/Library, Anthology Film Arch.
Public Policy
1977-79 Panelist, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
1981 Panelist, National Endowment for the Arts
1978-82 Chair, National Alliance of Media Arts Centers
1984-88 Secretary/Treasurer, National Alliance of Media Arts Centers
Selected Special Projects
1965-85 Contributing Editor, Film Heritage
1975 Fritz Lang retrospective, Pittsburgh Film-Makers
1976 Producer of Erogeny by James Broughton
1977-85 Publisher/Editor, Field of Vision
1978 Called & Led formation of National Alliance of Media Arts Centers
1979 Obtained NEA Challenge Grant for Pittsburgh Film-Makers Inc.
1981 Research Grant from NEA
1983 Organized Video Preservation Project for Anthology with Robert. Harris
1987 D.W. Griffith series with Jay Leyda at Staten Island Inst. Of Arts/Sciences
1988 “Motion Pictures: Muybridge, Edgerton, Rose, Blondeau, Frampton/Faller”
gallery show at Staten Island Institute of Arts/Sciences
1989 “Michelangelo Antonioni: The Enchanted Mountains” traveling gallery show
begun at the Staten Island Institute of Arts/Sciences
1989 Pennsylvania Council on Arts grant for a history of avant-garde film in
Pittsburgh; became the 2005 book Crossroads
1989 Tour Director, Glasnost Film Festival, 17 cities, March-June
1992-97 Bimonthly column on cinema in Japanese language OCS News
1993 Discussion with Ingrid Rossellini & J. Carlson on General Della Roovere on
CUNY television
1995 Organized the premiere screening of the complete 42 hour Book of All the
Dead by Bruce Elder
1996 Organized Louis Feuillade series of Fantomas, Judex, and Les Vampires with
English translations
1998 Complete retrospective of Michelangelo Antonioni
1998 Nearly complete retrospective, with US premieres, of Hans Jurgen Syberberg
1998 First Light multi-program series, with catalog
2000 Fritz Lang retrospective at Anthology with the American Museum of Moving
Image, with catalog Fritz Lang 2000
2000-01 Interview with Omer Kavur in Istanbul, then film series with catalog
2000 “Oskar’s Hand” in catalog of Iota Tribute to Oskar Fischinger
2001 Administrative sponsor of Unseen Cinema traveling exhibition of 150 films
2001 Lecture on Jim Davis in Amsterdam at Sonic Light Conference
2001 Lecture/Screenings on Jim Davis in Riga, Latvia and at Louvre, Paris
2001 Photographed megalith field at Stanton Drew, UK
2002 Organized Galaxy series, with catalog, for shows at Anthology & Paris
2003 Researched, organized Zeki Demirkubuz film series with catalog, Anthology
2004 Joseph Cornell films/lectures at Barcelona and with Jonas Mekas in Munich
2005 Crossroads screenings, with catalog, in Pittsburgh and at Anthology
2006 Awarded Bish Prize by Bruce Baillie
2006 Writes program notes for two Kenneth Anger DVDs
2006 Writes program notes for three Jim Davis DVDs
2007 Lectures on Joseph Cornell at Peabody Essex Museum, Salem; on Antonioni at
Anthology for Technically Sweet international project; on Kenneth Anger at the
Filmmuseum in Brussels
2007 Curator/speaker on Film-Dance at Lincoln Center
2007 Essay on Greenfield and photographs in Women’s Experimental Cinema:
Critical Frameworks by Robin Blaetz
2007 Photographer/journalst at opening of Jonas Mekas Center for the Visual Arts
in Vilnius, Lithuania
2009 Panelist at “The New Paragone” conference in Toronto
2009 Panelist and exhibiting photographer, 35th Anniversary of Media Study Buffalo
2010 Lecture in Rome, “Cinema, Time, Energy”
2012 Photography Exhibit, “15 Portraits From Avant-Garde, “ Albright-Knox, Buffalo
2013 Photography Exhibit: “Nudes and Standing Stones,” Archaeological Museum of
Macedonia, Greece
1992-2011 Organized annual “Film Preservation Honors” of Anthology
Selected Films Preserved under Haller Initiative at Anthology
Bruce Baillie (1); Stan Brakhage (53); Jim Davis (19); Maya Deren (1); Ed Emshwiller (4)
;
Amy Greenfield (4); Hilary Harris (4); Lawrence Jordan (21); Ralph Steiner (5)
Selected Publications
Kenneth Anger (monograph, 1980) reprinted in Italian in 1986
Brakhage Scrapbook: Collected Writings 1964-80 (as editor, 1980)
Jim Davis: The Flow of Energy (as editor, 1992)
Intersecting Images: Ed Emshwiller (as editor, 1997)
Jim Davis’ Notes on John Marin and Frank Lloyd Wright (as editor, 1997)
First Light (Abstract Light Forms) (as editor, 1998)
Hollis Frampton: A Resource Guide; Bibliography and Filmography. With Michael
Zryd. Toronto International Experimental Film Congress, 1989
Fritz Lang 2000 (as editor, 2000)
Omer Kavur: Sculptor of Cinematic Time (2001)
Galaxy (English-French, 2002)
Zeki Dermirkubuz (2003)
Crossroads: Avant-garde Film in Pittsburgh in the 1970s (2005)
Perspectives on Jerome Hill and Anthology Film Archives (2005)
“Commentaries on Hollis Frampton” in the EXIS catalog for the Experimental Film
and Video Festival in Seoul (2005)
Art in Cinema, Documents Toward a History of the Film Society (with Scott
McDonald, co-editors; 2006)
“The Futurist Impulse After Futurism,” Performa—09, Back to Futurism. (Performa
Publications, 2011)
Forty Years of Anthology Film Archives: 2011 Anniversary and Film Preservation
Honors (as editor, 2011)
Flesh Into Light: The Films of Amy Greenfield (2012)
Dancing With Light: The Films of Jim Davis (2013)
Across Time: Nudes and Standing Stones (photographs, in English and Greek, 2013)
Forty Photographs From Avant-Garde Film (Re-Voir, Paris, 2014)
DVDs
Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film. Bruce Posner, Curator; Haller as
administrator, 2005
Jim Davis: Visible Energy (2007, six films)
Jim Davis: Silent Light (2007, six films)
Jim Davis: Horizons of Light (2007, six films)
Jim Davis: Exotic Dances (2015, six films, coming) |