Bryan, that was amazing. If it appeared at one time that the meaning of a film screening were being lost, Experiments in Cinema is correcting the impression. I don't understand how there could be so many people in a cinema theater, night after night, in the middle of the week as well as on Saturday, and for experimental work - new work! No classics of the avant-garde here. On Sunday at noon? For work devoted to "collaborations with the earth"? In Albuquerque? What is going on! It has been a very long time since I waited in anticipation for a screening like I did last week - again and again. It's not the academic careers sustained by such a program, or the educational value of such an experience to people in town: I keep thinking about what it must've been like early on, sitting up there in the front row during the screenings of particularly demanding works, at a time when film . . even video . . the whole theatrical experience, really, has seemed an anachronism. Sitting up there, then, after listing the sponsors. And how could such an event draw such sponsorship? I don't understand. I don't need to understand. The work in video from Turkey that Ekrem Serder showed renewed my interest in abstraction. Again and again a film was shown with an optical sound track, an experiment, really. I didn't even see it all. I could afford to be annoyed. I could afford to walk out of a show early. I could afford to be an asshole.
Bernie
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