- Born
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- Birth nameEdward Ralph Pincus
- Ed Pincus was born on July 6, 1938 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was a director and cinematographer, known for Black Natchez (1967), The Axe in the Attic (2007) and Life and Other Anxieties (1978). He was married to Jane Kates Pincus and Jane. He died on November 5, 2013 in Vermont, USA.
- SpousesJane Kates Pincus(1960 - November 5, 2013) (his death, 2 children)Jane(? - November 5, 2013) (his death)
- Documentary filmmaker.
- Began filmmaking in 1965.
- His wife Jane and himself run a farm in Vermout.
- His father, Julius, ran a silk and textile business where his mother, Anne, sometimes worked.
- Graduated from Brown University in 1960 with a philosophy degree and later added a master's degree in philosophy from Harvard, where he also studied photography. Later taught at Harvard in the 1980s after leaving M.I.T. where he had helped star the film school.
- The personal is political.
- [re Diaries (1981)] A crew of one meant that intimate relations could be filmed in a documentary. Films could be shot over a long duration without skyrocketing costs. I decided to do an experiment. I would film for five years, not look at the footage, leave it in the can for five more years and then edit.
- [on his Vermont farm, while co-directing his last film, weeks before he died] Look up at those leaves and then frame them with your fingers. Now, when you remove the frame, don't they look different from before?
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