Out of the past: James Irwin interviewed by Scott Stark (1986)
<p>The following interview took place in my apartment on Fell Street in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_Valley,_San_Francisco" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Hayes Valley</a> section of San Francisco during the spring of 1986. It was published in volume two of the film journal <em>Cinematograph</em> later that year. It was part of a special collection of interviews with practicing independent filmmakers on both the west and east coasts. The interviews provide not only a snapshot of the lives of the artists, but taken together they also capture a moment in the history of American independent and avant-garde film as an art practice.</p>
<p>“The intention was to focus not so much on analysis of the filmmakers’ individual works,” wrote the filmmaker <a href="http://www.scottstark.com/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Scott Stark</a> in the introduction to the San Francisco section, “but rather on how the filmmakers themselves were continuing to work and survive in 1986. Central questions included how they locate themselves within the avant-garde tradition, how they manage to support and promote their work given the current financial climate, and how the work functions in relation to American culture at large.”</p>
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