Samson Debrier

Samson DeBrier, a self-styled "celebrity warlock" who attracted many of Hollywood's past and future stars to the soirees he regularly held in the modest bungalow where he lived surrounded by the treasures of his world travels, is dead. Recognized as a singular Hollywood character, one who was famous in the entertainment world simply for being himself, DeBrier was 86 when he died April 1.

Samson DeBrier, a self-styled "celebrity warlock" who attracted many of Hollywood's past and future stars to the soirees he regularly held in the modest bungalow where he lived surrounded by the treasures of his world travels, is dead. Recognized as a singular Hollywood character, one who was famous in the entertainment world simply for being himself, DeBrier was 86 when he died April 1.

The thing you have to remember about experimental film is that its roots are in the static visual arts rather than the movies. A rigorously conceptual practice that concerns itself with such things as the mechanics of perception, the believability of images and the dismantling of cinematic cliches, experimental films care not a whit about linear narrative, heroes and villains and box-office prowess. They are, in short, diametrically opposed to all the Hollywood industry holds dear.