Name Richard Myers Role Filmmaker | Movies Akbar, Jungle Girl | |
Education Kent State University (1961) Books Berwick Mechanics Institute and Free Library: A History, The Films of Richard Myers Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada People also search for Mary Leed, Alex Gildzen, Jake Leed, James Broughton | ||
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Richard Myers (or Richard L. Myers) is an American experimental filmmaker based in northeast Ohio. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree (1959) and a Master of Arts degree (1961), both from Kent State University in Kent, Ohio.
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Myers taught at Kent State University in the art department beginning in 1964 and is particularly known for his 1970 film Confrontation at Kent State, which he filmed in Kent during the week following the Kent State shootings of May 4, 1970; it is an important document of the period.
Myers began to produce independent films in the early 1960s. Many of his films are highly personal, with non-narrative or loose narrative structures derived from his dreams. Although some films (as, for example, his 1993 film Tarp) feature no actors at all, instead focusing entirely on inanimate objects, most films feature nonprofessional actors and are produced on very small budgets.
Myers is the recipient of two (due to a name spelling error) Guggenheim Fellowships as well as grants from the American Film Institute and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Academy Film Archive preserved several of Richard Myers' films, including Akran, The Path, and Allison Beth Krause.