Biography of Experimental Filmmaker Lloyd Michael Williams   In 1940 Lloyd M. Williams was born in Brooklyn, New York. His first interest in motion was with marionettes. He became involved with photography and by the time he was thirteen was making films. During high school Lloyd was an usher at Cinema 16 in New York City, the only venue exhibiting 16mm experimental movies. Inspired by the poem by Lewis Carroll, and the work he was seeing, Lloyd made Jabberwock and won the Silver Medallion at the Cannes Film Festival, 1959. Lloyd entered New York University majoring in Film, Television & Radio. They’re Off was made at the NYU Summer Motion Picture Workshop, which Lloyd directed in 1959. In 1960 Lloyd worked with Mary Ellen Bute on The Boy with Green Hair. He produced Ursula while he was a student and won the Bronze Medallion at Cannes in 1961. The Creation is more directed at radio and television commercials than at religion, it points out mankind’s blind belief in both. After graduating in 1962, Lloyd moved to Chicago to work for the Fred Niles Film Company. He was an assistant director for TV commercials for many familiar household products. Returning to New York, he worked for Ogilvy Benson & Mather, an advertising agency on Madison Avenue. Lloyd designed commercial story boards and became an assistant producer of television commercials, and a member of the Directors Guild of America. In 1964 Lloyd won a Fulbright to study cinematography in France and while in Paris began shooting sequences for Line of Apogee. Electronic music pioneer Vladimir Ussachevsky thought so much of the film he composed the original electronic score. In 1975 Suzanne Ciani, famous for the electronic sound heard around the world, the Coca Cola Pop ‘n Pour, composed the sound track for Rainbow’s Children. "In Rainbow’s Children Lloyd Williams reveals the dreamer awakening; erotic displacements of dreams are transformed into the erotic realities of life itself -- although still poetically suffused with a dream like languor which the filmmaker cannot escape. The texture of flesh, the ambiguity of longing and the colors of psychedelic apotheosis all merge into a languorous ecstasy which Lloyd Williams is adept in translating into the medium of film. All the varieties of film technique: slow motion, multiple-exposure, fast motion, camera in full flight and frozen image, he uses for the revelation of his intense fantasy, whether from dreams or from real-life or from hallucinated contemplation. His work shows that the dreamer is, indeed, awakening into a whole new world of erotic fantasy, muted with desire. If hard core films shock you, the films of Lloyd Williams will caress you." -- Quote from Charles Boultenhouse, Screening the Sexes by Parker Tyler, publisher Holt, Reinhart & Winston. In the mid seventies Lloyd served as cinematographer for Rosa Von Praunheim and began shooting film with his protégé, Adrian Salsgiver. But in 1979, Lloyd’s Bolex movie camera was stolen. Lloyd picked up a Bolex again in 1997 to act as cinematographer for Adrian. Adrian taught himself computer film editing and used Lloyd's old and new film to create Rainbow’s Child, completed in 2001. In 2003, Lloyd and Adrian collaborated on a digital movie, The Kingdom of UUFH, documenting the 31st and final Renaissance Faire of Huntington, NY. Lloyd made other 16mm films not yet digitized. Special thanks to Jonas Mekas for the safekeeping of Lloyd’s film. Lloyd lives on Long Island and is an active member of the New American Cinema Group. He can be found on the Internet at lloydmwilliams.com and myspace.com/3419lloyd Cover: Phillip Weiner – Notes: Adrian Salsgiver © 2006 by Lloyd M. Williams

The 16mm Experimental Films of Lloyd Michael Williams Disc 1 Wipes (1963, 1 min.) Grand Prize, Canyon Cinema Film Festival, 1964 Les Poissons (1957, 2 min.) Animated cut-outs of life under the sea. First Annual Bolex Film Festival, 1958 Jabberwock (1959, 4:23) Silver Medallion, Cannes Film Festival, 1959 Opus#5 (1961, 5:21) Creates a mood of nightmare terrors at once indefinable and affecting. They’re Off (1959, 10 min.) Satire movie about sports car racing. "The Chowder Heads roared throughout." - Competition Press Ursula (1961, 13 min.) Based on the short story by C. Beaumont about the mental decay of a child. Bronze Medallion, Cannes Film Festival, 1961. Special Award for Experiment in Film Form and Effective Use of Special Effects, Boston International Film Festival, 1962 The Creation (1961, 1:20). Drawn on film. A million years of life, fast. Wipes (1963, 1 min.) It’s fast, fast, fast. Disc 2 Wipes (1963, 1 min.) A jigger of pure visual tonic. Line of Apogee (1967, 46 min.) Grand prize Independent Film-Makers Competition St. Lawrence University, 1968. Experimental Film Competition, Casino Knokke, Belgium, 1968. Melbourne Film Festival, 1970. Selected, Library of Congress Archives, 1970 Rainbow’s Children (1975, 24 min.) Diploma D’Excellence, Festival D’ International Cinema Montreal, 1975. Independent Filmmakers Exposition, Chicago, 1976 Rainbow’s Child (2001, 15 min.) A film by Adrian Salsgiver. Filmed during the late 1970s in New York City and includes scenes from the Heritage of Pride Rally, 1997. Featuring Holly Woodlawn. Cinematography by Lloyd M. Williams. Toronto Inside Out Film Festival, 2002. Wipes (1963, 1 min.) A carnival on film.