Ronald Chase Trailers
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Ronald Chase (born December 29, 1934) is an American artist, photographer, educator, independent film maker and opera designer.
In 1963, Chase began making short experimental films with Fragments, written by Mary Lee Settle and filmed in the Hudson Valley. In 1964, he began experimenting with using film projections in theatre and dance performances. These experiments produced the films The Covenant, Chameleon and Clown, as well as Parade, a short documentary of the first Gay & Lesbian Pride Parade in San Francisco.
Chase produced and directed two features in the 1970s. Bruges-La-Morte premiered at the 1978 Rotterdam Film Festival and was awarded the Critics Prize at the International Film Festival Ghent in 1980. LULU, adapted from the play by Frank Wedekind, screened at a number of festivals and was chosen as one of the three best films of 1978 by Pariscope, but could not be released because of a copyright conflict with the estate of Alban Berg.
In 1993, Chase created the San Francisco Art & Film Program for Teenagers, a non-profit devoted to making the arts accessible to young people. SF Art & Film has been cited as one of the most comprehensive art education programs in the United States.
Most Popular Ronald Chase Trailers
Total trailers found: 19
05 May 1978
This highly stylized, critically acclaimed film from the 70's mixes silent film cards, a soundscape, color, opera music and atmosphere to explore the Freudian truths about men's fear of women that Wedekind powerfully exposed.
30 January 1973
The beauty and wonder of our natural environment gives cause for a celebration. The viewer joins a group of youngsters discovering and enjoying everything about trees and forests.
01 January 1965
Dance film of work by choreographer Elizabeth Harris with original score by Pauline Oliveros. The score is for prepared piano and was performed live during the filming.
01 January 2006
A film by students of the Film Workshop of San Francisco Art & Film, under the direction of Ronald Chase.
30 July 1972
A short film on the first Gay Pride March in San Francisco in 1971 the year after the Stonewall Riots.
21 April 2001
Twelve years ago, a plague swept through, wiping out most of the population; in San Francisco, only 186 people remain.
01 January 1971
Doomed lovers visit a country fair, spend a long afternoon in the forest before they drown themselves in the river.
03 October 1969
A young man (Jean Yves Pitoun) keeps awakening from a nightmare in which he kills a young child (Kim Beeson).
01 January 1981
A fantasy on the childhood of a highly gifted pianist/composer who visited Italy & Germany on a concert tour when he was 10.
05 March 1971
Sally Simpson played to a song rendered by Bette Midler (one of the cast) behind the proscenium curtain.
02 February 1978
The story of Paul who one day meets a young dancer who is the double of the dead wife he worships. Their meeting triggers a nightmare that takes him on a midnight journey through dark canals, memories, to a theater performance in a graveyard where he learns darker truths.
25 December 1972
1972 Documentary about a yearly event in San Francisco. What makes San Francisco different? In the 70's you could invite your friends to Christmas Breakfast and make a musical.
01 January 1971
Filmed in a remote location at Land's End, San Francisco. The film is constructed around a formal central idea.
01 October 1964
A woman remembers the love affairs with an artist and a fisherman that led her husband to suicide.
01 January 1971
It is one of the earliest of the gay films after Stonewall, and one that refused to see touch, affection, and sensuality only in pornographic terms.
01 January 1972
A true story, fillmed in Rome with both actors & non actors. in the 1500's Roman life was often a nightmare - Count Cenci tortured his family, raped his daughter, murdered his sons, created general havoc.
24 April 2003
In 2003 Chase had been directing his SF Film Workshop since 1998. He suggested that his students that year edit their own version of Beatrice using the original footage from the film.
27 February 2024
Stepping out of the sixties and in the wake of the Stonewall Riots, (considered the birth of the modern LGBTQIA+ liberation movement), the 1970s would prove to be a decade energized by queer activism, political and social change and pride.
03 October 1969
A woman remembers the moments with her lover and believes she's made herself ridiculous. She's become a clown.
