Acknowledgments
I am deeply grateful to the filmmakers whose
work is included here,
for making their writings
available to me, despite my inability to offer
them financial compensation. Thanks are due as
well to Anthology Film Archives in New York,
especially to Robert Haller and Jonas Mekas, to
John Hanhardt at the Whitney Museum of Amer-
ican Art, to my typist Carol Fobes, and to Utica
College of Syracuse University for support of this
project in the form of several grants and a sab-
batical leave.
Thanks to the following journals and individuals
for permission to publish or reprint texts and
scripts:
James Benning, for permission to publish "New
York 1980"
Camera Obscuia, for permission to reprint Trinh
T. Minh-ha's "Reassemblage: Sketch of a Sound
Track," no. 13/14 ( 1985): 104-111
Cinematograph, for permission to reprint the
narration and visual texts for Naked Spaces—
Living Is Round, vol. 3 (1988): 65-/9; and the
script for Sink or Swim, vol. 4 (1991): 116-129
Morgan Fisher, for permission to publish
the text
and narration for Standard Gauge
Ann Marie Fleming, for permission to publish the
narration, the dialogue, and the text of You Take
Care Now and the conversation from New Shoes
Su Friedrich, for permission to reprint "(Script) for
a
Film without Images" (originally published in
the first, and only, issue of Film/Feminism, pub-
lished in Spring 1984); the text from Gen tly Down
the Stream (originally published in a limited edi-
tion book by Friedrich); and the script for Sink or
Swim (originally published in Cinematograph)
The Hollis Frampton estate, for permission to
publish "Notes on Zorns Lemma," to reprint the
text of Poetic Justice (originally published as a
book by the Visual Studies Workshop Press in
1973), and to publish the computer texts from
Gloria!
Early Notes Prior to Production in the Spring of
1968," a transcription of an excerpt of Symbio-
psychotaxiplasm: Take One: and the program
notes on the film originally written for the 1991
Brooklyn Museum Retrospective of Greaves's
films
Millennium Film Journal, for permission to re-
print the script for Ann Marie Fleming's You
Take Care Now, no. 25 (Summer 1991): 10-13
Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, for permission
to reprint the script of Riddles of the Sphinx,
originally published in Screen
Yoko Ono, for permission to reprint "Film Script
3," "Film Script 5," "Omnibus Film," "Imagi-
nary Film Series/A FILM OF SUPER-REALISM,"
originally published in Grapefruit (New York:
Simon and Schuster, 1970); to reprint "The Walk
to the Taj Mahal," "Mona Lisa &. Her Smile,"
"Film Script 4," and "Thirteen Film Scores, Lon-
don, 1968," previously published in This Is Not
Here, a catalogue for a show at the Everson Mu-
seum in Syracuse, New York, in 1971; and to
publish "Film No. 13 (Travelogue)"
Yvonne Rainer, for permission to publish the
script of Privilege
Peter Rose, for permission to publish the scripts
of "Introduction to Pleasures of the Text" and
Secondary Currents
Michael Snow, for permission to publish the text
of So Is This
Screen, for permission to reprint the script of
Riddles of the Sphinx, vol. 18, no. 2 (Summer
1977): 61-77
Trinh T. Minh-ha, for permission to reprint "Re-
assemblage: Sketch of a Sound Track," originally
published in Camera Obscura, and the script of
Naked Spaces—Living Is Round, originally pub-
lished in Cinematograph.
William Greaves, for permission to publish
"Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One/Director's