Chick Strand, legendary filmmaker and co-founder of Canyon Cinema, passed away in the summer of 2009. Strand's pioneering work in experimental non-fiction and ethnographic film evokes poetic and magical visions carefully constructed from found footage and her own intimate cinematography. As Pablo de Ocampo says in a recent essay, Strand's work has "...changed the way we understand non-fiction form...Strand laid the groundwork for the acceptance of the experimental and the personal in a field previously dominated by Margaret Mead and Robert Flaherty". In celebration of her life and work, as well as her important impact on the world of independent and experimental film exhibition, Squeaky Wheel will be screening four of Strand's films including Kristallnacht, Cartoon le Mousse, Elasticity, and Mujer de Milfuegos.

Film theorist and author of Canyon Cinema: The Life and Times of an Independent Film Distributor, Scott MacDonald will join us via Skype to introduce the screening and to speak about Strand's influential work and about her role as a co-founder of the independent film screening collective, Canyon Cinema.