"The artist is essentially the instrument, and he stands below his work, for which reason we should
never expect from him an interpretation of his own work. He achieved his highest with his composition."
Carl Jung
GIVE YOURSELF (fire and water) 2 videos
PYRE: An hallucination of the fiery passage through death. 7 min 45 sec
ADVANCED CHILL: Variations through a shadow trapeze of flowing water. 14 min 20 sec
META-TEXT-ASY
(a trilogy with text which may be viewed as separate pieces) total running time 15 min
1. PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS:
as they might appear on a more "truthful" TV. 13 very short segments (7 min)
The "PSAs" say:- I Am What You Think I Am Supposed To Be
- Art...Ecstasy (voice on tracks sings "I still love you")
- Om Sri Krishna Ya Namaha (Sanskrit)
- This Moment Will Never Come Again
- Real Time
- Oh Rain
- Sex And Death Are Two Sides Of The Same Coin
- Verboten
- Thought Are Being Inaccessibly Rolled Up Behind Me Like The Red Carpet After The V.I.P. Has Passed Through ...Memory
- Long May It Wave O'er The Land Of The Free & The Home Of The Brave
- At The End Of The Line ...There's A Mirror At The End Of The Line
- This Time It's For Real
- File Save
- There Is No Future ...Relax
2. DAUGHTER OF DADA RETURNS:
Everywoman in a tiger striped pantyhose mask with a pink bow on her head stands on the street holding up to passing cars an apropos-to-these-times sign to begin another series. This short episode is just the intro to her further adventures. (Returns" references her appearance in Daughter of Dada in my Vidioms-2003. She first appeared in my video of the same name in 1997)
1 min 45 sec3. STORYBOARD (for Daughter of Dada 2)
"She is the sublime subversive, her guises numerous as the stars" -- a "storyboard" blending cartoons and the other genres with captions in comic book fashion... 16 short episodes. (This originated as a "real" storyboard for the live action video yet to be made, still awaiting funding for production.)
6 min 25 sec
"...STILL...TRIPPING..."
These 4 minutes of a ride beside the full moon railroad track are a gift outside of time ...we've all been there.
An Auto Bio of Memorable Moments in my life as a film-maker/video artist:
Shooting in the Djem El Fna in Marrakesh with an 8mm camera concealed in an embroidered clutch purse with a hole cut into one end for the lens, I later realized that the footage had a no-eye ( I ) quality & the hand eye connection was severed. And so, as we went further south to Goulimene where the light became blindingly bright, the film became more & more overexposed, until finally there were only the abstract blue shapes of the Touareg fuzzing in & out of a blurred terra cotta background.
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Knowing Vali Myers, a truly unique being, and editing the movie "Vali" in our loft on Grand St in NYC, back when loft living was illegal and we had to throw down the key to visitors.
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Visiting Huautla de Jimenez in Oaxaca before we began the editing of "Dope" in a log cabin in western NJ.
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Realizing in '68 that video was the way to go, and acquiring video equipment in '69.
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The contact with Julian & Judith & The Living Theater, especially the last performance of "Paradise Now" in Berlin, so intense that I spent most of the time video-ing in the dressing room.
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Video-ing the Dalai Lama as he was sitting on a couch in Pondicherry India serenely twirling a rose given him by The Mother (of Sri Aurobindo Ashram).
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Learning that I loved my computer
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Learning more and more to trust the process
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Creating sound.
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I now (beginning in '94) create video and digital art as the culmination of a long career in film-making, which progressed from an early fascination with anti-establishment artists (Vali) to social issues (Dope) , and involvement in the sixties underground art, theater and film scene (Thunderbolt Pagoda, Living Theater). All of the above influenced my development, but I believe that my long sojourn in India (totaling 8+years) - India-"The Unabridged Version" as it were-, changed the way I see the world.
And now, it's always the "work in progress" that has the greatest resonance.
The past is always understood in terms of the now.
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