Re: [Frameworks] Jud Yalkut RIP

Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:16:16 -0700

wow - just saw by this post that Jud Yalkut has passed. so saddened by this news, and deeply grateful to have met & enjoyed extensive discussion with him some years ago. a real visionary, may his legacy live on.

On Jul 30, 2013, at 2:08 AM, VB wrote:

Great to read this Herb - we sent one of our new preserved prints of Turn, Turn, Turn in a program to I House in 2008, so that might have been CVM's new print you saw. That program (with this film) also screened at Brisbane, Rotterdam, PFA, UCLA Film & TV Archive and other venues.

Center for Visual Music worked with Jud a few years back to restore this film (combining several of the best elements in his archive), and he put a new print from the project into distribution at Light Cone, Paris about 5 years ago. He was hesitant about sending one to Canyon, adopting a wait and see attitude about their future at that time. I'm not sure if he sent a new print to Filmmakers' Coop then.

We made new preservation material for this film (thanks to support from the NFPF), so this film is safe. For those near London, we'll be screening one of the new prints in a program featuring a lot of our new restoration work and some recent discoveries, at Tate Modern on Sept 26.  Though the Turn, Turn, Turn restoration isn't new, I wanted to add the film to honor Jud.

I'll post more soon re this - the program will also include some very rare Belson. 

Cindy Keefer
Center for Visual Music
www.centerforvisualmusic.org
please reply to:  cvmaccess (at) gmail.com


-----Original Message----- 
From: Herb Shellenberger 
Sent: Jul 27, 2013 12:38 PM 
To: Experimental Film Discussion List , Experimental Film Discussion List 
Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Jud Yalkut RIP 


I was typing something to the list earlier, but deleted it because I can't say I'm overly familiar with his work and thought others would be able to contribute more personal or cogent reflections/remembrances. However, as perhaps on the spectrum as a "younger" person (as was mentioned in a previous message), I can say that the work that I have seen of his has affected me greatly. All of the film/video work that I've seen are things we've been able to show here at International House in a variety of contexts. I count seeing 16mm prints of Kusama's Self Obliteration, Turn Turn Turn, Waiting for Commercials and Clarence among my most cherished cinema experiences. As someone who is particularly drawn to psychedelic and visual abstraction in experimental cinema, Yalkut is pretty near the top of my list of filmmakers I'd like to explore much more.

Here's hoping his archive and oeuvre becomes properly cataloged and accessible to scholars and cinephiles, if not somewhere local to the Ohio community that he fostered for so many years, than somewhere where it might be more accessible to larger numbers, like Anthology, the Academy and so on.

Herb Shellenberger
Programs Office Manager
International House Philadelphia
3701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
www.ihousephilly.org
(e) he...@ihphilly.org
(ph) 215-895-6575

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