Films
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Runaway
Standish Lawder16mm, color, sound, 5.25 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Eleven Different Horses
Standish Lawder16mm, color, sound, 3.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Corridor
Standish Lawder16mm, black and white, sound, 22.25 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Necrology
Standish Lawder16mm, black and white, sound, 11.25 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Colorfilm
Standish Lawder16mm, color, sound, 2.25 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Dangling Participle
Standish Lawder16mm, black and white, sound, 17 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreAnimationExperimental
Roadfilm
Standish Lawder16mm, color, sound, 1.75 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Sunday In Southbury
Standish Lawder16mm, color, sound, 7.25 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreAnimationExperimental
Raindance
Standish Lawder16mm, color, sound, 16 minRental format: 16mm
Biography
Standish Lawder attended Williams College and the National Autonomous University of Mexico as an undergraduate, studied at the University of Munich, and received his PhD in art history from Yale University where his thesis dealt with relationships between modern art and film during the teens and 20's. He has also written on other aspects of film history, principally Griffith, Eisenstein, and the German Expressionist cinema.
As an artist, Lawder worked as a painter until about 1962 when he became involved in projected light art, multi-media photography and film. Lawder made about twenty-five films which have been screened at numerous film festivals and museums including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, and others. He conducted research on the nature of optical space and the psychology and physiology of perception with a particular interest in stereoscopy. Before joining the Visual Arts Department in 1975, Lawder had been a member of the faculty at Yale University and held the Henry Luce Visiting Professorship of Film Studies at Harvard in 1972-73. He retired in 1996. Standish Lawder died on June 21, 2014 in Los Angeles, California.