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  Bolinas Film Society presents Gunvor Nelson

  Advertisement for a program of Gunvor Nelson's films presented by the Bolinas Film Society in the Bolinas Hearsay News.
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  Two New Films by Gunvor Nelson flyer

  Flyer for a screening of Red Shift and Frame Line by Gunvor Nelson. The screenings were held at San Francisco Cinematheque and Pacific Film Archive.
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  James Irwin review of Gunvor Nelson program at the San Francisco Cinematheque

  A review written by James Irwin on a program of Gunvor Nelson's films that was presented by the San Francisco Cinematheque. The review was written for the Cinematograph.
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  Gunvor Nelson and Dorothy Wiley article

  Article written about the creative partnership between Gunvor Nelson and Dorothy Wiley and their film Before Need in the Marin Independent Journal.
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  The New Cinema Seminar Gunvor Nelson poster

  Poster advertising a program of Gunvor Nelson's films Kirsa Nichola, Schmeerguntz, Fog Pumas, and My Name is Oona, presented by the New Cinema Seminar.
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  Letter to Steve Anker from Gunvor Nelson

  Letter written by Gunvor Nelson to Steve Anker and Susan Thackery after Nelson moved back to her home country Sweeden.
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  Postcard to Steve Anker from Gunvor Nelson

  Postcard written by Gunvor Nelson to Steve Anker.
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  Dorothy Wiley written account of meeting Gunvor Nelson

  Account written by Doroothy Wiley of her memories meeting Gunvor Nelson and making the film Schmeerguntz together. Written for the San Francisco Cinematheque program, "Gunvor Nelson: A Life in Film."
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  Chick Strand Recollections article

  "Chick Strand's Recollections of Canyon Cinema's Early Beginnings with Added Commentary from Chick Callenbach." Transcribed conversation between Chick Strand and Ernest (Chick) Callenbach, Gunvor Nelson and Diane [Kitchen?]. Date unknown. Mildred "Chick" Strand (December 3, 1931 - July 11, 2009) was an experimental filmmaker who contributed to the movement of women's experimental cinema in the early 1960s-1970s. Chick Strand studied anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and in the early 1960s organized film happenings with Bruce Baillie. In 1961, Strand established the Canyon CinemaNews, a monthly filmmakers' journal which became a focal point for the West Coast independent film movement and a precursor to the filmmakers' collective called Canyon Cinema founded by others, including Baillie, in 1967.
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  Notes on films by Warren Sonbert and and Gunvor Nelson

  Notes on Warren Sonbert's Friendly Witness and Gunvor Nelson's Natural Features. Author unknown. Warren Sonbert (June 26, 1947 - May 31, 1995) was an experimental filmmaker whose work began in New York in the mid-1960s, and continued in San Francisco throughout the second half of his life. Sonbert taught filmmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Bard College at various times, and regularly reviewed classical recordings and opera, as well as film, for periodicals including The Advocate and the Bay Area Reporter. He died of complications from AIDS at his home in San Francisco in 1995. Swedish artist and experimental filmmaker Gunvor Grundel Nelson was born in 1931 in Kristinehamn, Sweden. Some of her most widely known works were created while she lived in the Bay Area in the mid-1960s and early 1970s, where she became well established among other artists in the avant-garde film circles.