Standish Lawder

Known for DirectingBorn 1936-01-01Died 2014-06-21Connecticut, USA

Born in Connecticut in 1936, Lawder attended Williams College and the National Autonomous University of Mexico as an undergraduate, and studied at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. While at the University of Munich, he became a test subject for a neurologist researching phosphenes at around 1960. During these experiments, he was injected with measured amounts of LSD, mescaline and psilocybin, and "spent a whole day in the clinic". In this, he became an early subject of psychedelics. Afterwards, he received his Doctor of Philosophy as an art historian at Yale University. His thesis, which was later published as The Cubist Cinema, examines the correlation between the history of film and its impact on modern art, described as a holistic overview by Anthony Reveaux inFilm Quarterly. His body of work is purported to span over 25 films and his literary works encapsulates several essays on experimental film. His first endeavors with experimental films started in his basement during a sabbatical of his in the late 1960s and early 1970s.Read more

Movies & web series

Cinema16: American Short Films

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

Corridor

Raindance

Roadfilm

Necrology

Color Film

Runaway

Electronical Politics

Solstice and Solyanka

Catfilm for Katy and Cynnie

Intolerance (​abridged)

Screening Room

Sunday In Southbury

Dangling Participle

Eleven Different Horses

Construction Job

Catfilm for Ursula

The March of the Garter Snakes

Intolerance (abridged)