Standish Lawder

Directing·Jan 1, 1936·Connecticut, USA

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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.

Film	Credit
Cinema16: American Short Films2006 · Director	Director
Electronical Politics1988 · Director	Director
Solstice and Solyanka1975 · Actor	Actor
Catfilm for Katy and Cynnie1974 · Director	Director
Intolerance (abridged)1973 · Director	Director
Raindance1972 · Director	Director
SSunday In Southbury1972 · Director	Director
Color Film1971 · Director	Director
Corridor1970 · Director	Director
Dangling Participle1970 · Director	Director
Roadfilm1970 · Director	Director
Necrology1970 · Director	Director
Eleven Different Horses1970 · Director	Director
RRunaway1969 · Director	Director
CCatfilm for Ursula1969 · Director	Director
CConstruction Job1969 · Director	Director
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches1968 · Self	Self
TThe March of the Garter Snakes1965 · Director	Director