{"id":258,"date":"2008-03-15T07:57:23","date_gmt":"2008-03-15T13:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=258"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:59:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:59:14","slug":"scott-mutter-1944-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"Scott Mutter, 1944-2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">For the longest time, the late <strong>Expanded Cinema<\/strong> guru <strong>Ron Epple<\/strong> has been an enigma to me, especially since his short-film activity in <strong>Champaign-Urbana<\/strong> ceased way before the age of Internet research and obsessive documentation. Now, an Expanded cohort that I was unfamiliar with has also left this mortal coil.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Chicago<\/strong> photographer <strong>Scott Mutter<\/strong> became well-known through his high-contrast montages, but local residents who knew him during his days as\u00a0a student and novice shutterbug in C-U remember much more. Among other activities, Mutter interacted with radical leftist groups, studied Chinese culture, philosophised with cafe patrons, and assisted Epple with Expanded, a kind of counter-culture booking agency that brought many seasons of underground, experimental, and foreign films to the <strong>University of Illinois<\/strong> campus during the Sixties and Seventies. Man, those were the days&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a title=\"Scott Mutter article :: The News-Gazette\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news-gazette.com\/news\/2008\/03\/11\/philosopher_was_figure_on_local_art_film\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Click to read<\/strong>: Scott Mutter article in <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The News-Gazette<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a title=\"Scott Mutter obituary :: Chicago Sun-Times\" href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/obituaries\/838123,CST-NWS-xmutter12.article\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Click to read<\/strong>: Scott Mutter obituary in <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Chicago Sun-Times<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a title=\"Scott Mutter salute @ SmilePolitely.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smilepolitely.com\/arts\/2008\/03\/scott-mutter-19442008.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Click to read<\/strong>: Scott Mutter salute\u00a0by <strong>Seth Fein<\/strong> at <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Smile Politely<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a title=\"Scott Mutter gallery @ PhotographyMuseum.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.photographymuseum.com\/mutter\/scottmutterNewGallery.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Click to read<\/strong>:\u00a0On-line gallery\u00a0of &#8220;Surrational Images&#8221; by Scott Mutter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several articles report on the passing of this former Champaign-Urbana student and photographer, who was involved in the rise of Ron Epple&#8217;s Expanded Cinema.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,15,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alums-done-good","category-media-coverage","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}