Memorial: P. Adams Sitney (1944-2025)

I do not know exactly when I first “met” P. Adams Sitney. He was present at Yale University, when he organized the world premiere of Stan Brakhage’s four-hour silent film, The Art of Vision, screened there over several days, likely early 1966. I came to New Haven to see it. I was 18. There was…

The fact that the Princeton professor most intensely committed to introducing students to the ancient legacies of European and American literature, to Homer and Tacitus, Aeschylus and Dante, should have been the world’s foremost scholar of avant-garde film can be explained solely with respect to the unique path in life and writing that P. Adams…