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Wheeler Dixon

Alias:
Christopher Sereni
Wheeler Winston Dixon

Birthplace:
New Brunswick, NJ, USA

Biography from TheMovieDB

Wheeler Winston Dixon (born March 12, 1950) is an American filmmaker and scholar. He is an expert on film history, theory and criticism. His scholarship has particular emphasis on François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, American experimental cinema and horror films. He has written extensively on numerous aspects of film, including his books A Short History of Film and A History of Horror. From 1999 through the end of 2014, he was co-editor of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. He is regarded as a top reviewer of films. In addition, he is notable as an experimental American filmmaker with films made over several decades, and theMuseum of Modern Art exhibited his works in 2003. He taught at Rutgers University, The New School in New York, the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and is currently the Ryan professor of film studies and English at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.

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Film Production

Director:
1969  Bits & Pieces
1969  Children of Light
1969  Devotion for Travelers
1969  Quick Constant and Solid Instant
1969  The DC Five Memorial Film
1969  Wedding
1972  Serial Metaphysics
1974  An Evening with Chris Jangaard
1974  Damage
1974  Gaze
1974  Numen Lumen
1974  Stargrove
1974  Tight Rope
1975  Un petit Examen, and Not So Damned Petit Either, or, The Light Shining Over the Dark
1976  Dana Can Deal
1976  Madagascar, or, Caroline Kennedy's Sinful Life in London
1978  Amazing World of Ghosts
1978  Attack from Outer Space
1978  UFO: Exclusive
1978  UFO: Top Secret
1979  Mysteries from the Bible
1979  World of Mystery
1986  London Clouds
1986  The Diaries
1990  Women Who Made the Movies
1993  What Can I Do?
1995  Squatters
2019  20th Century Wallpaper

Editor:
1969  Bits & Pieces
1969  Children of Light
1969  Devotion for Travelers
1969  Quick Constant and Solid Instant
1969  The DC Five Memorial Film
1969  Wedding
1972  Serial Metaphysics
1974  An Evening with Chris Jangaard
1974  Damage
1974  Gaze
1974  Numen Lumen
1974  Stargrove
1974  Tight Rope
1975  Un petit Examen, and Not So Damned Petit Either, or, The Light Shining Over the Dark
1976  Dana Can Deal
1976  Madagascar, or, Caroline Kennedy's Sinful Life in London
1978  Amazing World of Ghosts
1978  Attack from Outer Space
1978  UFO: Exclusive
1978  UFO: Top Secret
1979  Mysteries from the Bible
1979  World of Mystery
1986  London Clouds
1986  The Diaries
1990  Women Who Made the Movies
1993  What Can I Do?
1995  Squatters
2019  20th Century Wallpaper

Executive Producer:
1969  Bits & Pieces
1969  Children of Light
1969  Devotion for Travelers
1969  Quick Constant and Solid Instant
1969  The DC Five Memorial Film
1969  Wedding
1972  Serial Metaphysics
1974  An Evening with Chris Jangaard
1974  Damage
1974  Gaze
1974  Numen Lumen
1974  Stargrove
1974  Tight Rope
1975  Un petit Examen, and Not So Damned Petit Either, or, The Light Shining Over the Dark
1976  Dana Can Deal
1976  Madagascar, or, Caroline Kennedy's Sinful Life in London
1978  Amazing World of Ghosts
1978  Attack from Outer Space
1978  UFO: Exclusive
1978  UFO: Top Secret
1979  Mysteries from the Bible
1979  World of Mystery
1986  London Clouds
1986  The Diaries
1990  Women Who Made the Movies
1993  What Can I Do?
1995  Squatters
2019  20th Century Wallpaper

Producer:
1969  Bits & Pieces
1969  Children of Light
1969  Devotion for Travelers
1969  Quick Constant and Solid Instant
1969  The DC Five Memorial Film
1969  Wedding
1972  Serial Metaphysics
1974  An Evening with Chris Jangaard
1974  Damage
1974  Gaze
1974  Numen Lumen
1974  Stargrove
1974  Tight Rope
1975  Un petit Examen, and Not So Damned Petit Either, or, The Light Shining Over the Dark
1976  Dana Can Deal
1976  Madagascar, or, Caroline Kennedy's Sinful Life in London
1978  Amazing World of Ghosts
1978  Attack from Outer Space
1978  UFO: Exclusive
1978  UFO: Top Secret
1979  Mysteries from the Bible
1979  World of Mystery
1986  London Clouds
1986  The Diaries
1990  Women Who Made the Movies
1993  What Can I Do?
1995  Squatters
2019  20th Century Wallpaper

Writer:
1969  Bits & Pieces
1969  Children of Light
1969  Devotion for Travelers
1969  Quick Constant and Solid Instant
1969  The DC Five Memorial Film
1969  Wedding
1972  Serial Metaphysics
1974  An Evening with Chris Jangaard
1974  Damage
1974  Gaze
1974  Numen Lumen
1974  Stargrove
1974  Tight Rope
1975  Un petit Examen, and Not So Damned Petit Either, or, The Light Shining Over the Dark
1976  Dana Can Deal
1976  Madagascar, or, Caroline Kennedy's Sinful Life in London
1978  Amazing World of Ghosts
1978  Attack from Outer Space
1978  UFO: Exclusive
1978  UFO: Top Secret
1979  Mysteries from the Bible
1979  World of Mystery
1986  London Clouds
1986  The Diaries
1990  Women Who Made the Movies
1993  What Can I Do?
1995  Squatters
2019  20th Century Wallpaper

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