Stephen,
I was lucky enough to have had a lot of exposure to Bruce Conner's work, starting when I was an
undergraduate at Washington University in St. Louis, where--prompted by writing about BC by Jonas
Mekas and Susan Sontag--I screened "Cosmic Ray" and "A Movie" within one of my film series. Most
recently, in conjunction with a large exhibition of work by Conner & his "assistants" Anonymous and
Anonymouse, ten of his films were projected within the Katzen Museum on the campus of American
University in Washington DC.
Unfortunately, I was never able to witness any of the "performances" he staged, as it were, within his
personal life, and wonder whether you ever caught any of these? Or perhaps an in-person
screening? The rumors and stories his behavior initiated were amusing, but I've never heard an
eyewitness account. Can you supply one?
Barry Alpert
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