[Frameworks] Luther Price and art criticism

[Bernard Roddy]

Wait, it was only via email that Luther and I were in contact.

But there are a lot of things one could say here in connection to writing
and the experimental film. I think I read a quote from Godard where he says
film isn't art.

Nobody knows what to focus on. The University Film and Video Association
have a journal that strikes me as strictly academic. I'm not going to try
to go into what I mean by that.

But that writing closed a period of time during which I had a relationship
with the editor at Afterimage. I could get a go-ahead and not worry about
whether the text would be read.

There was another text I remember submitting to Millenium Film Journal. The
same issue came up. The editor of a journal like that wants to see greater
attention to the artists' work. The mission is to satisfy a taste for a
certain experience.

I loved Clown because of everything it refused to do for you. And the essay
became something for people trained in philosophy. Never mind. What I think
I did was write like Luther make films.

Bernie
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[Frameworks] Luther Price RIP

[Bernard Roddy]

Esperanza Collado, it's on my hard drive. I sent it to Critical Inquiry and
they said I had to talk more about film. So I tried to get Luther to come
up with a DVD. I had seen the film only once. On the phone Luther said he
didn't have a DVD, but he said he'd ask some guy at Anthology to come up
with one. The guy never came through. So the essay remains rather
philosophical, with periodic returns to Clown and the cinema.

Bernie

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*Esperanza Collado* esperanzacollado1 at gmail.com

*Sat Jun 20 03:13:43 UTC 2020*

Where can we read your essay, Bernie?

El jue., 18 jun. 2020 a las 5:48, Bernard Roddy (https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks>>)
escribió:

>* Hi everyone. I had only heard the name, and heart it often, then in 2016
*>* saw his work at the Chicago Underground. For three years, until August last
*>* year, I worked on an essay that runs 20 pages and concerns only a single
*>* Price film.
*>>* Bernie*
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Re: [Frameworks] Luther Price RIP

[Michael Kemp]

 lovely story...  made my day

On Saturday, 20 June 2020, 17:08:57 BST, Rob Gawthrop 
 wrote:  
 
 In the late nineties I programmed regular screenings at the Hull Film Theatre 
(Yorkshire England) while teaching at the art school there. I showed a 
compilation of new American films (from the coop) including Sodom. This was a 
public event and the cinema was run by the city council and they were not 
asking to see uncertificated films since the debacle of banning Genet’s Chant 
d’Amour. Sodom came on last before the interval and the ice-cream seller was 
making her way in at the moment of the auto-fellatio (Busby Berkley style) was 
on the screen. I was a little worried that there would be complaints.  The 
ice-cream woman spoke to me and said “Oo I’ve not seen anything like that 
before”
It was all ok.
Rob


On 20 Jun 2020, at 04:13, Esperanza Collado  wrote:
Where can we read your essay, Bernie?

El jue., 18 jun. 2020 a las 5:48, Bernard Roddy () escribió:

Hi everyone. I had only heard the name, and heart it often, then in 2016 saw 
his work at the Chicago Underground. For three years, until August last year, I 
worked on an essay that runs 20 pages and concerns only a single Price film.
Bernie
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Re: [Frameworks] Adriano Apra

[Philip Hoffman]

hello Gene...I was last in touch with Adriano by email on April 2...sent
him a Jack Chambers collection and he said he was wellYes, he's a
wonderful...I know him from the early 90's at the Salsomaggiore Festival...
thx
Philip Hoffman

On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 6:50 PM Gene Youngblood  wrote:

> Does anyone on this list know Adriano Apra in Rome, who used to be
> director of the Pesaro Film Festival? We were recently in an ongoing email
> conversation and all of a sudden he was silent. No response. We’ve been
> friends for decades. I fear the worst. Can anyone direct me to someone who
> might know?
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Re: [Frameworks] Luthor Price RIP

[Dominic Angerame]

Great story Ken Paul….

d

> On Jun 20, 2020, at 8:06 AM, Ken Paul Rosenthal 
>  wrote:
> 
> When I was a San Francisco Cinematheque voluteer back in the early '90's, I 
> assisted Luthor in a performance called, 'Meat', at the Eye Gallery. I recall 
> it vividly:
> 
> A large white sheet separated Luthor from the audience. Luthor's hair was 
> frosted white like an old man and his face was covered in pasty whiteface. He 
> wore oversized, thick, dark glasses, a white lab coat, and rubber gloves. My 
> job was to run a video feed from his side of the curtain, which the audience 
> could watch on a monitor on the other side. He asked me to wear a lab coat as 
> well, even though I was not visible to anyone.
> 
> Luthor had an enormous side of beef on a table with a fist-size hole in it. 
> He repeatedly alternated between spraying aerosal into the beef hole and 
> reaching in as if to pull something out. His movement was very measured and 
> disciplined. On the audience side, liver was frying on a hot plate. The smell 
> was rather oppressive. Luthor was generous enough to let me snap photographs 
> throughout the entire performance. 
> 
> Luthor walked with a pronounced limp due to being shot in (I believe) 
> Guatamala. This incident inspired the above performance.
> 
> Ken
>   
> www.kenpaulrosenthal.com 
> 
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Re: [Frameworks] Luther Price RIP

[Rob Gawthrop]

In the late nineties I programmed regular screenings at the Hull Film Theatre 
(Yorkshire England) while teaching at the art school there. I showed a 
compilation of new American films (from the coop) including Sodom. This was a 
public event and the cinema was run by the city council and they were not 
asking to see uncertificated films since the debacle of banning Genet’s Chant 
d’Amour. Sodom came on last before the interval and the ice-cream seller was 
making her way in at the moment of the auto-fellatio (Busby Berkley style) was 
on the screen. I was a little worried that there would be complaints.  The 
ice-cream woman spoke to me and said “Oo I’ve not seen anything like that 
before”

It was all ok.

Rob

> On 20 Jun 2020, at 04:13, Esperanza Collado  
> wrote:
> 
> Where can we read your essay, Bernie?
> 
> El jue., 18 jun. 2020 a las 5:48, Bernard Roddy ( >) escribió:
> Hi everyone. I had only heard the name, and heart it often, then in 2016 saw 
> his work at the Chicago Underground. For three years, until August last year, 
> I worked on an essay that runs 20 pages and concerns only a single Price film.
> 
> Bernie
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Re: [Frameworks] Luthor Price RIP

[Ken Paul Rosenthal]

When I was a San Francisco Cinematheque voluteer back in the early '90's, I 
assisted Luthor in a performance called, 'Meat', at the Eye Gallery. I recall 
it vividly:

A large white sheet separated Luthor from the audience. Luthor's hair was 
frosted white like an old man and his face was covered in pasty whiteface. He 
wore oversized, thick, dark glasses, a white lab coat, and rubber gloves. My 
job was to run a video feed from his side of the curtain, which the audience 
could watch on a monitor on the other side. He asked me to wear a lab coat as 
well, even though I was not visible to anyone.

Luthor had an enormous side of beef on a table with a fist-size hole in it. He 
repeatedly alternated between spraying aerosal into the beef hole and reaching 
in as if to pull something out. His movement was very measured and disciplined. 
On the audience side, liver was frying on a hot plate. The smell was rather 
oppressive. Luthor was generous enough to let me snap photographs throughout 
the entire performance.

Luthor walked with a pronounced limp due to being shot in (I believe) 
Guatamala. This incident inspired the above performance.

Ken





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