Hi, just want to say I feel the same way. He spent all of this time either teaching or working on the films/videos. His notes ran to a few hundred pages. He was obsessed and produced an amazing body of work and I hope people will look at it.
Best, Alan On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 1:31 PM Edward Picot <edw...@edwardpicot.com> wrote: > I've just been looking at Stenography. I haven't watched it all the way > through, but goodness me! It's extraordinary! > > > On 1/17/22 11:12 PM, Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour wrote: > > Agreed - I really love Stenography with its bizarre complexity; they're > all strange! > > Alan - > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 1:56 PM Edward Picot <edw...@edwardpicot.com> > wrote: > >> Alan, >> >> I just watched 'Answer' and 'Duckboy' - 'Duckboy' was particularly >> wonderful! >> >> Edward >> >> On 1/16/22 11:27 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote: >> > >> > >> > For Lee Murray >> > >> > Lee Murray is, was, a brilliant filmmaker/videomaker/writer, >> > thinker, who died a year ago; today there was an online >> > memorial. I wrote and read the following for it. Please check >> > out his work. Thank you. >> > >> > http://www.dionzeek.com/ (Lee's site) >> > >> > ... >> > >> > What to say, that he was a good friend for decades. >> > >> > "Got" him shows in New York and Atlanta. >> > >> > Meticulous and always a difficult path. >> > >> > His coordinates so often slanted. >> > >> > What I mean is that the images were jagged, edged the same with >> > texts filling the void with inconceivable narratives >> > >> > The stories couldn't be the stories / the stories were elsewhere >> > >> > He was always breaking new ground by hand, the hard way, >> > breaking with this sense of hand-craftedness, so many things >> > that appeared digital were physically constructed, so many >> > things that seemed analog were short-circuited in the digital. >> > >> > He breathed film and performance. >> > >> > His basement studio was a labyrinth of architecture and his >> > mind. >> > >> > One might sum it up, badly, the tethering and untethering of the >> > mind. >> > >> > It was difficult to walk with him sometimes, he was wayward and >> > I am sure in pain. >> > >> > His harmonicas were played too hard, almost breaking the reeds; >> > he gave them to me for the soft touch. >> > >> > We never worked together but we talked and thought together and >> > ran I think to our respective caverns of idiosyncratic thought. >> > >> > His speech was always stops and starts and exact, his sleeping >> > difficult and troubled, as was his world and perhaps the world >> > to come. >> > >> > I felt so close to him! His work spoke to me, even the veering >> > of it, a lariat gone amuck, a horizon of vacuum tubes and >> > secrecies, monologs keeping the dark away while plunging into >> > it. >> > >> > I think of stenographers drowning. >> > >> > Some of us are solitary creatures in the midst of the world, the >> > darkness never dissipates. But one sees the world and sees it >> > true. >> > >> > I think perhaps we walked somewhat the same edges, even in the >> > midst of the kindness of others. >> > >> > Darkness within us. >> > >> > The illumination of technology and his wonder within it, >> > 16 millimeter, 8 millimeter, super 8 millimeter, all with their >> > families and brilliant ways. >> > >> > And Azure and I always felt comfortable and welcome with them >> > and those conversations that wove among what otherwise might >> > have been sentences of loneliness. >> > >> > He was carving, always, worlds beneath whatever surfaces he >> > found in the world. >> > >> > Always at the edge of perfect articulation, the motions of >> > thought coming through, like a plate tilting, water, running off >> > the edge. >> > >> > Maybe more than water, memories of war, violence, as if he, we, >> > were refugees from ourselves. >> > >> > To say he will be missed is almost to miss the point. >> > >> > He will be missed, an Atlantis, beautiful and incandescent >> > thinker. >> > >> > I can't go on, I write this now, ahead of time, the production >> > of speaking, this memorial, always his own, always thought, >> > always silence, in the midst of silence, now silent, >> > >> > living on. >> > >> > Thank you. >> > >> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCe-WRap-zI (my memorial video) >> > >> > http://www.dionzeek.com/ (Lee's site) >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > NetBehaviour mailing list >> > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org >> > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org >> https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > > > -- > *=====================================================* > > *directory http://www.alansondheim.org <http://www.alansondheim.org> tel > 347-383-8552 **email sondheim ut panix.com <http://panix.com>, sondheim > ut gmail.com <http://gmail.com>* > *=====================================================* > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing > listNetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.orghttps://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- *=====================================================* *directory http://www.alansondheim.org <http://www.alansondheim.org> tel 347-383-8552**email sondheim ut panix.com <http://panix.com>, sondheim ut gmail.com <http://gmail.com>* *=====================================================*
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