Must be something in the air! So many snaps this week seem to be smack on!
Like this one good, too.
Stephen V
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
Currently home of the Tenderly series,
A serial work in progress.
> TALK, JONAS MEKAS
>
> [“I don’t really make films,
> I just keep filming.” –JM]
>
> To do, here,
> a film, shown. There will be some questions.
> Language is a very subtle instrument. Letters
> know
>
> junkies
> of the constant sitting.
> Now as I’m writing this,
> acts of human spirit
> small enough to see each other’s eyes
>
> matter more than all.
> Every film to be screened publicly had to be approved.
> Know I have to share with others
> any
> special nothing special. I just had to do it.
>
>
> Barry Alpert/ Silver Spring, MD US / 5-17-06 (7:43 PM)
>
>
> Initially drafted during what I thought would be an in-person screening by
> the 83-year old filmmaker and poet, but which turned out be an admittedly-
> unprepared talk and reading, followed by a question and answer session. My
> intuitive notation written in the dark the previous week during a
> projection of his 16 mm films “Walden” and “Happy Birthday, John” never
> cohered into a form I wanted to make public. In fact, that screening ended
> by chance when the Hirshhorn Museum's projector broke. So I decided in
> advance for this occasion to attempt an acrostic sonnet, especially since
> an identical strategy had yielded a text I still liked, “Film, Jonas Mekas”
> (www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=printpage&pid=383), out of my first
> viewing a few years ago of his 320-minute “As I Was Moving Ahead
> Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses Of Beauty”.
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