Standish Lawder

(1936 – 21 June 2014) was an American artist, art historian and inventor, who contributed to the structural film movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Biography Born in Connecticut in 1936, Lawder attended Williams College and the National Autonomous University of Mexico as an undergraduate, and studied at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU).

Preservation The Academy Film Archive has preserved several of Standish Lawder's films, including Necrology, Catfilm For Katy and Cynnie and Raindance.

Selected filmography 3 x 3: A Tic-Tac-Toe Sonata in 3 Moves (1963) Budget Film (1969) Catfilm for Ursula (1969) Construction Job (1969) Eleven Different Horses (1969) Headfilm (1969) Runaway (1969) Specific Gravity (1969) Corridor (1970) Dangling Participle (1970) Roadfilm (1970) Necrology (1971) Color Film (1971) Prime Time (1972) Raindance (1972) Sixty Suicide Notes (1972) Sunday in Southbury (1972) Automatic Diaries 1971–73 (1973) Catfilm for Katy and Cynnie (1973) Regeneration (1980)