avant-garde

i feel blessed from seeing the screening at the Pacific Film Archive tonight. Avante-garde works from 61-71 along w hutton, jordan and severson in person:

Robert Nelson -Oh Dem Watermelons
Gunvor Nelson and Dorothy Wiley - Schmeerguntz
Lawrence Jordan - Duo Concertantes
Alice Anna Parker Severson - I Change I am the Same
Bruce Baillie - Valentin de las Sierras
Lenny Lipton - Doggie Diner and Return of Doggie Diner
Peter Hutton - July '71



tomorrow night there is a jordan belson screening at SFMOMA but that kind of collides with ss and ks' collaboration in Magic Magic Roses. man, bruce baillie is where it's at. his movie was brilliant and beautiful and lawrence jordan spoke of it particularly well, a "personal poetic documentary... right out of his life...keeping the edge of the frame mobile..."

the whole work is never before the viewer.