On May 26, 2015, at 1:24 AM, Steve Polta <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Yes Noren was indeed considered an expert on 20th Century news footage and certainly knew his way around an archive. There is also a story however of him dropping by Anthology Film Archives, sometime well into the 21st century I think, to inspect his films—which were permanently archived there—and, when the archivist was out of the room, physically removing specific shots with scissors and pocketing this material. Noren's early films (mid-'60s–mid-'70s, roughly)—the making of which were the direct inspiration for the film David Holzman's Diary—were attempts to document "every aspect" of the filmmaker's life, which, in his case, meant that they documented Noren's quite active sex life. I don't know the reason—his own privacy or his partners' perhaps?—but it was these scenes that Noren reportedly liberated. Good story and yes I believe it's true... Steve Polta Interesting story: tape or cement splices? I do remember one woman filmmaker active in that era describing Noren's early autobiographical films as “a long list of all the women that he’s f****d.” Chuck Kleinhans
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