Chris Casady Oral History Excerpt I

Chris Casady on his discovery of experimental filmmaking in LA, and Pat ONeills films leading him to CalArts:

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I started going to film shows. And the end of high school, I started going to the Genesis Film Programs. And that was a seminal discovery. That's where I first saw Pat O'Neill films and first saw Bob Nelson films ... that was a real turning point in my last year of high school to come into Hollywood. And go to these little Bohemian theaters like the Encore which is no longer around. But it was a great little underground repurposed dilapidated theater that some cool people had taken over and were running really neat films ...


And a little paragraph [on the program notes] said, Pat O'Neill is now teaching film at California Institute Of The Arts, which I don't think it even opened its doors yet ... And based on that program and that film, my friend Byron and I said we're gonna go to that school because that guy teaches there, that guy who made that totally psychedelic film ... So, that was, it was actually Pat O'Neill that led me to CalArts. ...

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Film & Animation

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• oral history
• alternative projections
• chris casady
• animation
• calarts
• pat oneill