Dixon Theory
Other films he Directed:Wheeler Winston Dixon was a filmmaker and scholar. His scholarship was focused on Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, American experimental cinema and horror films. Wheeler taught at Rutgers University, The New School in New York and the University of Amsterdam located in the Netherlands. Mr Dixon is currently the Ryan professor of film studies and English at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.
When Dixon was younger he was a writer for Life Magazine and Andy Warhol's Interview magazine. In an Arts Lab in Drury Lane he participated in making and screening short films.
In his young career Dixon made numerous experimental films. In 1991, with a filmmaker Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, he created a documentary named Women Who Made the Movies and in 1995, in France, he made a film entitled Squatters. In 2003, the Museum of Modern Art gathered all of his experimental films, including the following:
Dixon's films have also been screened at the British Film Institute, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The New Arts Lab, the Jewish Museum, The San Francisco Cinématheque, The Collective for Living Cinema, and The Kitchen Center for Experimental Art.
Some quotes of Dixon's:
When Dixon was younger he was a writer for Life Magazine and Andy Warhol's Interview magazine. In an Arts Lab in Drury Lane he participated in making and screening short films.
In his young career Dixon made numerous experimental films. In 1991, with a filmmaker Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, he created a documentary named Women Who Made the Movies and in 1995, in France, he made a film entitled Squatters. In 2003, the Museum of Modern Art gathered all of his experimental films, including the following:
- Serial Metaphysics (1972)
- Madagascar, or, Caroline Kennedy's Sinful Life in London (1976)
- Quick Constant and Solid Instant (1969)
- What Can I Do? (1993)
Dixon's films have also been screened at the British Film Institute, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The New Arts Lab, the Jewish Museum, The San Francisco Cinématheque, The Collective for Living Cinema, and The Kitchen Center for Experimental Art.
Some quotes of Dixon's:
- "...women and men in horror films are sites of activity, situations rather than characters. As the level of graphic specificity continues to rise in the horror film." (Wheeler Winston Dixon - Film and Philosophy Vol 1, 1994)
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