Personally, I feel lucky to have witnessed two great in-person screenings
each by Hollis Frampton & Paul Sharits, both of whom had poetic connections
(Frampton referred to Pound as his "master" and Sharits collaborated with
David Franks). I used to talk with Robert Creeley about both of them.
And a viewing of Tony Conrad's "Flicker" in a small screening room at the
Pacific Film Archive, even if not presented by the filmmaker himself, had
to have been one of the most "intense" aesthetic experiences of my life.
There's a catalogue forthcoming for this apparently exemplary exhibit of a
context in which these filmmakers existed (still exist):
http://www.zkm.de/mindframes_e/
Barry Alpert
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