Well found or heard, Barry. I always admire the crispness & compression of the lines, & how the fragments begin to cohere…
Especially like ‘The radicals get a / hiding’ …
Doug
> On Apr 11, 2018, at 1:04 PM, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> A GRIN WITHOUT A CAT
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> via Chris. Marker
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> At such a point of convergence
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> gone thru a movement,
> rise to a tendency,
> it had hardly been talked about,
> necessary element (not in a fighting sense)
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> which couldn't be moved (Microphone in Moscow).
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> Barry Alpert / Wash DC>>Rockville MD / 4-10-18 (7pm) >> 4-11-18 (2:17pm)
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> Here's the trailer for Chris. Marker's 1977 film essay, screened in its entirety (3 hours) at the French Embassy in Wash DC last night:
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBD90QD3gBI
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>
>
>
>
> GRIN WITHOUT A CAT
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> [via Chris. Marker’s “Le Fond de l’Air est Rouge”]
>
> reached maturity and the only thing at
> issue . . .
> No, we didn’t believe it.
>
> Wrong notes in music will save me /
> images begin to tremble.
> The radicals get a
> hiding.
> Others may represent a serious threat
> under a tragic obligation to choose.
> Tell me what you might be filming.
>
> A bit of miscasting here, actually.
>
> Crisis: your public image was based on
> appropriation of the means
> to a specific localized need.
> [Think that ambiguity is generating a lot of anxiety.]
>
>
> Barry Alpert / Wash DC>>Rockville MD / 2008
Douglas Barbour
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