David, thank you for this. Andy Ditzler
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 8:45 AM, David Baker <dbak...@hvc.rr.com> wrote: > At the Filmmaker's Coop a week ago the fearless indefatigable M.M. Serra > along with perspicacious resident scholar Greg Zinman > presented (for a tiny group of cognoscenti) the astounding part 2 of a > Jud Yalkut Memorial Screening. > Like a lightning bolt out of the darkness they projected a pristine print > of > one of the least seen most amazing masterpieces of counterculture cinema, > the fabled AQUARIAN RUSHES (1970), Yalkut's scintillating hybrid > distillation > of the 1969 Woodstock Music & Art Fair. Said to be a favorite of Martin > Scorsese, believe it !! > AQUARIAN RUSHES is the object of a prolonged endeavor, a grail, wondrous > but not explicitly "holy", > a hybrid of film,video and digital manipulation with psychedelic schisms > and otherworldly tactilities, as ecstatic as it is intimate. > Yalkut is here a witness wrapped in wonder, an avant-garde filmmaker at > the height of his powers of observation, > with a fascination for backstage minutiae as well as legendary performances > in never before seen oblique angles. > > As if that wasn't enough, the master of sensory overload, legendary > 85 year old multichannel poet Gerd Stern, founder of USCO the Intermedia > commune in upstate New York, > wandered in with unforgettable stories to tell... > > meeting Harry Smith eating casaba melons > at Jimbo's Bop City in the late 40's. > By flashlight, sworn to silence, seeing Harry's art work placed on the > floor > of his flophouse in San Francisco's Fillmore district before anyone knew > he was a filmmaker. > > Quoting Charlotte Moorman at one of the first Expanded Cinema Festivals > in the early Sixties: > "When you're playing the cello > with flowers you have to listen closely". > > What he did not tell was that he was Maya Angelou's lover, > that he had been hospitalized with BOTH Carl Solomon AND Allen Ginsberg, > that he worked closely with Harry Partch, > that he was the producer of Timothy Leary''s "Psychedelic Theater". > Nor did he say he had known Jordan Belson, Philip Lamantia, > Michael McClure, Harold Edgerton, Dennis Hopper, > Ken Kesey, Bob Dylan, Stewart Brand, Charlie Parker, Lenny Bruce, > Marshall McLuhan or Huey Newton, but indeed he has. > > He also failed to mention that he had a bathtub rigged as a waterpipe > on his barge in Sausalito, which he got Count Basie high with. > > M.M. says he's coming back in a couple of months. > Do not dare miss Gerd Stern's return. > He is one of the greatest raconteur's living on this planet. > > Just saying, > > DB > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > -- Andy Ditzler www.filmlove.org www.johnq.org
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