A VALPARAISO
[via Joris Ivens, Chris Marker, & P. Guzman]
a beaucoup chante
vers commence
ascenseur
l’armee de salud
pilastra No. 154
après de bonheur
ronde continue
Aliviol
insista
Siren n’est . . .
Oh!
Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 3-1-06 (3:26 PM)
This was written during a screening of a 28-minute “city symphony” which
was, as they now say, “helmed” by the distinguished Dutch documentarian
Joris Ivens. He was lucky enough to have the major French director Chris
Marker write (and read) a text as voiceover. Patricio Guzman, a Chilean
documentary filmmaker who later became famous for “The Battle of Chile,”
shot the footage, in both b & w and color. Since the print lacked
subtitles, I decided to risk an acrostic in the languages available for
quarrying, French & Spanish.
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