It cannot have been easy for John Korty as others founded the Bay Area theory of cinema. He moved in various directions, as survival can dictate.
John Korty on the set of the 1974 television movie “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,” which went on to win nine Emmy awards, including one for Korty. John Korty died on March 9 in Point Reyes Station, where he had lived for years.
Korty was not from the Bay Area or Northern California; he was born in Lafayette, Indiana, in 1936. But once he’d found the area, he concluded that it had a lot to explore. He graduated from Antioch College in Ohio and began playing around with film, a youthful hobby that turned into an obsession. He filmed live things, but he experimented with animation, too. He was drawn to what we call documentary, but he was just as interested in stories and held by moving imagery of all sorts.
It cannot have been easy for Korty as others founded the Bay Area theory of cinema. He moved in various directions, as survival can dictate: He did a feature film, “Alex & the Gypsy” that starred Jack Lemmon and Geneviève Bujold, but it didn’t impress audiences. He would be compelled to do “Oliver’s Story” , a lame sequel to “Love Story,” with Ryan O’Neal and Candice Bergen. It flopped.
More to the point is that so many luminaries of Bay Area cinema knew that Korty was a quiet pioneer in realizing this might be a place for doing good work away from stardust and limelight. The community of Northern Californian filmmakers was large and distinguished — not just Coppola and Lucas, but Walter Murch, Carroll Ballard, David and Janet Peoples, Jon Else, Matthew Robbins, Phil Kaufman, Bob Dalva, Hiro Narita and many others.
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