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Carla Liss
Carla Liss (1944–2012) was an American visual and performance artist, and filmmaker and film actor. She was known for her associations with Fluxus and the London Film-Makers' Co-op.
She was the daughter of the screenwriter and executive Abe Liss, who worked as a creative director for United Productions of America and later owned Elektra Film Production who made TV commercials Elektra was credited with "squeeze motion" technique of animation. Abe Liss was the producer for Elektra of Flavio (short, 1963) directed by Gordon Parks. He died on December 1, 1963, aged 47.
Carla Liss was born in Hollywood, California. She attended Sarah Lawrence College, the University of Wisconsin, and the Film School of Boston University.
In 1966 Liss appeared in the George Kuchar short film Leisure. She took part in work by Andy Meyer, and Tom Chomont's Ophelia. She was an actor in The Longest Most Meaningless Movie in the World (1970). She was in Normalsatz / Ordinary Sentence (1978–81) by Heinz Emigholz. Reynolds wrote:
There is little written on her ephemeral and responsive film practice, yet Liss's name can be traced through other, more feminist-inflected art networks from 1972 onwards.
Nathaniel Dorsky, a friend of both, documented Kuchar and Liss in his short memorial film August and After (2012). He knew Liss in New York, and later when she had a San Francisco apartment, and mentioned an affair she had with Felix Guattari.
An associate of Jonas Mekas of The Film-Makers' Cooperative in New York, Liss worked at the Film Maker's Cinematheque, in the 41st Street Theater. She traveled with him on European tours of the mid-1960s. She then was instrumental in bringing to London a major collection of New American Cinema works.
The London Film-Makers Coop (LFMC), founded in 1966, was initially heavily under the influence of Mekas, who asserted some sort of ownership of it as a "branch". From mid-1968 Liss was an intermediary in a deal that acquired for the LFMC much of P. Adams Sitney's traveling film collection, seen at British venues earlier that year.
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Carla Liss
Carla Liss (1944–2012) was an American visual and performance artist, and filmmaker and film actor. She was known for her associations with Fluxus and the London Film-Makers' Co-op.
She was the daughter of the screenwriter and executive Abe Liss, who worked as a creative director for United Productions of America and later owned Elektra Film Production who made TV commercials Elektra was credited with "squeeze motion" technique of animation. Abe Liss was the producer for Elektra of Flavio (short, 1963) directed by Gordon Parks. He died on December 1, 1963, aged 47.
Carla Liss was born in Hollywood, California. She attended Sarah Lawrence College, the University of Wisconsin, and the Film School of Boston University.
In 1966 Liss appeared in the George Kuchar short film Leisure. She took part in work by Andy Meyer, and Tom Chomont's Ophelia. She was an actor in The Longest Most Meaningless Movie in the World (1970). She was in Normalsatz / Ordinary Sentence (1978–81) by Heinz Emigholz. Reynolds wrote:
There is little written on her ephemeral and responsive film practice, yet Liss's name can be traced through other, more feminist-inflected art networks from 1972 onwards.
Nathaniel Dorsky, a friend of both, documented Kuchar and Liss in his short memorial film August and After (2012). He knew Liss in New York, and later when she had a San Francisco apartment, and mentioned an affair she had with Felix Guattari.
An associate of Jonas Mekas of The Film-Makers' Cooperative in New York, Liss worked at the Film Maker's Cinematheque, in the 41st Street Theater. She traveled with him on European tours of the mid-1960s. She then was instrumental in bringing to London a major collection of New American Cinema works.
The London Film-Makers Coop (LFMC), founded in 1966, was initially heavily under the influence of Mekas, who asserted some sort of ownership of it as a "branch". From mid-1968 Liss was an intermediary in a deal that acquired for the LFMC much of P. Adams Sitney's traveling film collection, seen at British venues earlier that year.