just started to watch 'Stenography', and have the same reaction as Edward; spell-binding... thanks for drawing attentio to this body of work, Alan, best Johannes Birringer
________________________________________ From: NetBehaviour <netbehaviour-boun...@lists.netbehaviour.org> on behalf of Edward Picot <edw...@edwardpicot.com> Sent: 18 January 2022 18:29 To: netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] For Lee Murray, brilliant film/videomaker, writer I've just been looking at Stenography. I haven't watched it all the way through, but goodness me! It's extraordinary! On 1/17/22 11:12 PM, Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour wrote: Agreed - I really love Stenography with its bizarre complexity; they're all strange! Alan - On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 1:56 PM Edward Picot <edw...@edwardpicot.com<mailto:edw...@edwardpicot.com>> wrote: Alan, I just watched 'Answer' and 'Duckboy' - 'Duckboy' was particularly wonderful! Edward On 1/16/22 11:27 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote: > > > For Lee Murray > > Lee Murray is, was, a brilliant filmmaker/videomaker/writer, > thinker, who died a year ago; today there was an online > memorial. I wrote and read the following for it. Please check > out his work. Thank you. > > http://www.dionzeek.com/ (Lee's site) > > ... > > What to say, that he was a good friend for decades. > > "Got" him shows in New York and Atlanta. > > Meticulous and always a difficult path. > > His coordinates so often slanted. > > What I mean is that the images were jagged, edged the same with > texts filling the void with inconceivable narratives > > The stories couldn't be the stories / the stories were elsewhere > > He was always breaking new ground by hand, the hard way, > breaking with this sense of hand-craftedness, so many things > that appeared digital were physically constructed, so many > things that seemed analog were short-circuited in the digital. > > He breathed film and performance. > > His basement studio was a labyrinth of architecture and his > mind. > > One might sum it up, badly, the tethering and untethering of the > mind. > > It was difficult to walk with him sometimes, he was wayward and > I am sure in pain. > > His harmonicas were played too hard, almost breaking the reeds; > he gave them to me for the soft touch. > > We never worked together but we talked and thought together and > ran I think to our respective caverns of idiosyncratic thought. > > His speech was always stops and starts and exact, his sleeping > difficult and troubled, as was his world and perhaps the world > to come. > > I felt so close to him! His work spoke to me, even the veering > of it, a lariat gone amuck, a horizon of vacuum tubes and > secrecies, monologs keeping the dark away while plunging into > it. > > I think of stenographers drowning. > > Some of us are solitary creatures in the midst of the world, the > darkness never dissipates. But one sees the world and sees it > true. > > I think perhaps we walked somewhat the same edges, even in the > midst of the kindness of others. > > Darkness within us. > > The illumination of technology and his wonder within it, > 16 millimeter, 8 millimeter, super 8 millimeter, all with their > families and brilliant ways. > > And Azure and I always felt comfortable and welcome with them > and those conversations that wove among what otherwise might > have been sentences of loneliness. > > He was carving, always, worlds beneath whatever surfaces he > found in the world. > > Always at the edge of perfect articulation, the motions of > thought coming through, like a plate tilting, water, running off > the edge. > > Maybe more than water, memories of war, violence, as if he, we, > were refugees from ourselves. > > To say he will be missed is almost to miss the point. > > He will be missed, an Atlantis, beautiful and incandescent > thinker. > > I can't go on, I write this now, ahead of time, the production > of speaking, this memorial, always his own, always thought, > always silence, in the midst of silence, now silent, > > living on. > > Thank you. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCe-WRap-zI (my memorial video) > > http://www.dionzeek.com/ (Lee's site) > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org<mailto:NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org<mailto:NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -- ===================================================== directory http://www.alansondheim.org tel 347-383-8552 email sondheim ut panix.com<http://panix.com>, sondheim ut gmail.com<http://gmail.com> ===================================================== _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org<mailto:NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
