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After the pleasantries and questions—'When and where were you born?' 'August 9, 1944, New Haven, [Connecticut]'—I tossed out what I thought would be a great question, a real fast ball.
- ↑ Amazon.com: Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde, 1943-2000, 3rd edition
- ↑ Anthology Film Archives: The First Screenings, 1970|Underground Film Journal
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- ↑ "P. Adams Sitney".
- ↑ P. Adams Sitney will hold a conference invited by EQZE-Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola
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