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The Passing of Tony Reveaux
by Doniphan Blair
One of the few photos I could find of the recalcitrant Tony Reveaux. photo: T. Reveaux PLEASE support our GoFundMe campaign to cover research expenses for our articles and rebuilding the cineSOURCE site.
ANTHONY "TONY" REVEAUX, OUR DEAR
colleague here at cineSOURCE, passed the week of July 10, 2024. In keeping with his mild-mannered but mysterious demeanor, I am not sure of the exact date, reason or his age.
Tony was my most mellow writer at cineSOURCE, although I did eventually learn he was quite the force in indie and avant-garde film. He even had an acting part in Chris Marker’s renown “Sans Soleil” (1983), and he started the film studies department at UC Santa Cruz. In addition to teaching filmmaking and film history there, and starting its film festival, he taught at the SF Art Institute, where he received his MFA, and at San Francisco and Sonoma State universities.
A dedicated cinema analyst, Tony was the first film critic at the New Haven Register, in his youth. He went on to appear in Artweek, San Francisco Chronicle, Microtimes, Computer Currents, Visions, Newmedia, MediaDirect CD-ROM (Japan), Film Quarterly, TV Technology, Entertainment Design and Film/Tape World, where I first met him. Indeed, Tony was a person I consulted in depth before I started cineSOURCE in April 2008, after Film/Tape collapsed the year before.
Tony wrote dozens of articles for cineSOURCE, often examining the art film scene but with a calmness and virtuosity, as can be seen in this 2010 article, “Radical Light: Bay Area Alt-Film”.
Tony also published four books: “Cool Mac Clip Art Plus!”, “The Independent Film” (with Sheldon Renan), and “The Art of the Animated Film”. “How to do Everything with iMovie”, which he wrote with Gene Steinberg, remains available for $26.36. And he has one film listed at the Filmmakers Coop, the 12.5 minute “Peace March” (1976).
As if that wasn’t diverse enough, he worked on many festivals and did multimedia design for the Oakland Museum, SF Conservatory of Music and University Art Museum Berkeley among other locations. Not to forget he was part of the Orange Hat Club, a group of swimmers who plied the San Francisco Bay, including in February!
Tony is survived by a brother who lives in Connecticut. I am guessing he was in his mid-70s, since he moved some years ago into an independent living complex in San Rafael. Evidently, he had a cancer that spread slowly, and his old friend Jeanne Thomas flew in from Montana to help.
Thanks Tony, for your calm and illuminating insight—love you!
Posted on Aug 03, 2024 - 01:20 PM
by Doniphan Blair
One of the few photos I could find of the recalcitrant Tony Reveaux. photo: T. Reveaux ANTHONY "TONY" REVEAUX, OUR DEAR
colleague here at cineSOURCE, passed the week of July 10, 2024. In keeping with his mild-mannered but mysterious demeanor, I am not sure of the exact date, reason or his age.
Tony was my most mellow writer at cineSOURCE, although I did eventually learn he was quite the force in indie and avant-garde film. He even had an acting part in Chris Marker’s renown “Sans Soleil” (1983), and he started the film studies department at UC Santa Cruz. In addition to teaching filmmaking and film history there, and starting its film festival, he taught at the SF Art Institute, where he received his MFA, and at San Francisco and Sonoma State universities.
A dedicated cinema analyst, Tony was the first film critic at the New Haven Register, in his youth. He went on to appear in Artweek, San Francisco Chronicle, Microtimes, Computer Currents, Visions, Newmedia, MediaDirect CD-ROM (Japan), Film Quarterly, TV Technology, Entertainment Design and Film/Tape World, where I first met him. Indeed, Tony was a person I consulted in depth before I started cineSOURCE in April 2008, after Film/Tape collapsed the year before.
Tony wrote dozens of articles for cineSOURCE, often examining the art film scene but with a calmness and virtuosity, as can be seen in this 2010 article, “Radical Light: Bay Area Alt-Film”.
Tony also published four books: “Cool Mac Clip Art Plus!”, “The Independent Film” (with Sheldon Renan), and “The Art of the Animated Film”. “How to do Everything with iMovie”, which he wrote with Gene Steinberg, remains available for $26.36. And he has one film listed at the Filmmakers Coop, the 12.5 minute “Peace March” (1976).
As if that wasn’t diverse enough, he worked on many festivals and did multimedia design for the Oakland Museum, SF Conservatory of Music and University Art Museum Berkeley among other locations. Not to forget he was part of the Orange Hat Club, a group of swimmers who plied the San Francisco Bay, including in February!
Tony is survived by a brother who lives in Connecticut. I am guessing he was in his mid-70s, since he moved some years ago into an independent living complex in San Rafael. Evidently, he had a cancer that spread slowly, and his old friend Jeanne Thomas flew in from Montana to help.
Thanks Tony, for your calm and illuminating insight—love you!
Posted on Aug 03, 2024 - 01:20 PM
