Brian L. Frye

Brian L. Frye

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Brian L. Frye is a filmmaker and professor of law. His films are in the permanent collection at The Whitney Museum. In 2012, he joins the permanent faculty at the University of Kentucky Law School.

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The Anatomy of Melancholy 1999

Sometime in the 1960s, a chiropractor from Kansas City made a short film called "A Portrait of Fear." The film consisted of several tableau shots of amateur actors standing in a field at night reciting painfully overwrought dialogue, apparently lit by the headlights of a car. I assume the cinematographer used an Auricon, as the sound was recorded directly on the B&W reversal original. In 1998, he sold me the outtakes, strung together just like you see them.
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Ladies Day 1997

A 16 mm. film by Brian L. Frye.
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Lachrymae 2000

".. and yet of that living breathing throng, not one will be encased in a material frame. A company of ghosts, playing to spectral music. So may the luminous larvae of the Elysian fields have rehearsed ...