Sally Dixon discusses her long career as one of the country's first curators of avant-garde film, having both personal and professional connection to Stan Brakhage, Hollis Frampton, Kenneth Anger, Jame Broughton, Bruce Baillie, Carolee Schneeman, among others. Her career as a curator began at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh (featured centrally in Robert A. Haller's book Crossroads: Avant-Garde Film in Pittsburgh in the 1970s). Later, she moved to St. Paul to fill in as temporary director of Film in the Cities (FITC), an organization that screened independent films and helped train young practitioners. She did not know at the time that she would end up residing in Saint Paul, where she continues to live to this day. Her contributions to the Twin Cities film scene, not to mention the national scene, have been extraordinary. Here, Dixon went on to create Filmmakers Filming, which brought many important filmmakers to the area. In 1980 she became the Bush Foundation's director of artist fellowships.

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