American filmmaker, poet and critic Charles Boultenhouse was BOTD in 1926. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, little is known of his early life. In 1945, he moved to New York City to study at Columbia University, where he met the poet and film critic Parker Tyler. They become lovers and life partners, living in together for 30 years. Through Tyler, Boultenhouse joined an queer artistic circle including Tyler’s ex-boyfriend Charles Henri Ford, Carl Van Vechten, Lincoln Kirstein, Glenway Wescott, George Platt Lynes, Orson Welles, George Balanchine, e. e. cummings, Cecil Beaton, Salvador Dalí, Ned Rorem and Pavel Tchelitchew. Under the influence of Tyler and their filmmaker friends Maya Deren and Jonas Mekas, Boultenhouse became interested in experimental film. His 1959 short film, Henry James’ Memories of Old New York, based on James’s autobiographical memoir A Small Boy and Others, was followed by Handwritten, and Dionysius, a free treatment of Euripides’ play The Bacchae. Boultenhouse also published poetry, translations, and film and dance criticism, and worked as a buyer and manager at Brentanos department store. After Tyler’s death in 1974, he struggled with depression and alcoholism, sinking into obscurity and poverty. He re-emerged towards the end of his life, presenting his short films at film festivals showing his work, writing introductions for reprints of Tyler’s books and began work on a biography of Tyler. He died in 1994, aged 68.