Bruce Connor Interview

Bruce Connor seemed like a funny, to-the-point sorta guy and that really comes across in this interview. The monetary restrictions of his work definitely influenced what he did with A movie and other early films, makes me wonder what other aspects of experimental cinema were influenced by monetary incentives? And if any of those elements ended up transferring to other modes of film.

Also found the part about performance art interesting...he seemed very negative on the whole matter. I wonder if he came from a circle of artists that were skeptical of performance art as something appearing after their time, or if there was a personal reason Bruce preferred other mediums.

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