Re: [Frameworks] Yalkut's AQUARIAN RUSHES
Andy, My pleasure. I am thankful as well for this important place to testify to the sights and sounds that make me shake. DB On Nov 6, 2013, at 10:09 AM, Andy Ditzler wrote: David, thank you for this. Andy Ditzler On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 8:45 AM, David Baker wrote: At the Filmmaker's Coop a week ago the fearless indefatigable M.M. Serra along with perspicacious resident scholar Greg Zinman presented (for a tiny group of cognoscenti) the astounding part 2 of a Jud Yalkut Memorial Screening. Like a lightning bolt out of the darkness they projected a pristine print of one of the least seen most amazing masterpieces of counterculture cinema, the fabled AQUARIAN RUSHES (1970), Yalkut's scintillating hybrid distillation of the 1969 Woodstock Music & Art Fair. Said to be a favorite of Martin Scorsese, believe it !! AQUARIAN RUSHES is the object of a prolonged endeavor, a grail, wondrous but not explicitly "holy", a hybrid of film,video and digital manipulation with psychedelic schisms and otherworldly tactilities, as ecstatic as it is intimate. Yalkut is here a witness wrapped in wonder, an avant-garde filmmaker at the height of his powers of observation, with a fascination for backstage minutiae as well as legendary performances in never before seen oblique angles. As if that wasn't enough, the master of sensory overload, legendary 85 year old multichannel poet Gerd Stern, founder of USCO the Intermedia commune in upstate New York, wandered in with unforgettable stories to tell... meeting Harry Smith eating casaba melons at Jimbo's Bop City in the late 40's. By flashlight, sworn to silence, seeing Harry's art work placed on the floor of his flophouse in San Francisco's Fillmore district before anyone knew he was a filmmaker. Quoting Charlotte Moorman at one of the first Expanded Cinema Festivals in the early Sixties: "When you're playing the cello with flowers you have to listen closely". What he did not tell was that he was Maya Angelou's lover, that he had been hospitalized with BOTH Carl Solomon AND Allen Ginsberg, that he worked closely with Harry Partch, that he was the producer of Timothy Leary''s "Psychedelic Theater". Nor did he say he had known Jordan Belson, Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, Harold Edgerton, Dennis Hopper, Ken Kesey, Bob Dylan, Stewart Brand, Charlie Parker, Lenny Bruce, Marshall McLuhan or Huey Newton, but indeed he has. He also failed to mention that he had a bathtub rigged as a waterpipe on his barge in Sausalito, which he got Count Basie high with. M.M. says he's coming back in a couple of months. Do not dare miss Gerd Stern's return. He is one of the greatest raconteur's living on this planet. Just saying, DB ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks -- Andy Ditzler www.filmlove.org www.johnq.org ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] Yalkut's AQUARIAN RUSHES
David, thank you for this. Andy Ditzler On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 8:45 AM, David Baker wrote: > At the Filmmaker's Coop a week ago the fearless indefatigable M.M. Serra > along with perspicacious resident scholar Greg Zinman > presented (for a tiny group of cognoscenti) the astounding part 2 of a > Jud Yalkut Memorial Screening. > Like a lightning bolt out of the darkness they projected a pristine print > of > one of the least seen most amazing masterpieces of counterculture cinema, > the fabled AQUARIAN RUSHES (1970), Yalkut's scintillating hybrid > distillation > of the 1969 Woodstock Music & Art Fair. Said to be a favorite of Martin > Scorsese, believe it !! > AQUARIAN RUSHES is the object of a prolonged endeavor, a grail, wondrous > but not explicitly "holy", > a hybrid of film,video and digital manipulation with psychedelic schisms > and otherworldly tactilities, as ecstatic as it is intimate. > Yalkut is here a witness wrapped in wonder, an avant-garde filmmaker at > the height of his powers of observation, > with a fascination for backstage minutiae as well as legendary performances > in never before seen oblique angles. > > As if that wasn't enough, the master of sensory overload, legendary > 85 year old multichannel poet Gerd Stern, founder of USCO the Intermedia > commune in upstate New York, > wandered in with unforgettable stories to tell... > > meeting Harry Smith eating casaba melons > at Jimbo's Bop City in the late 40's. > By flashlight, sworn to silence, seeing Harry's art work placed on the > floor > of his flophouse in San Francisco's Fillmore district before anyone knew > he was a filmmaker. > > Quoting Charlotte Moorman at one of the first Expanded Cinema Festivals > in the early Sixties: > "When you're playing the cello > with flowers you have to listen closely". > > What he did not tell was that he was Maya Angelou's lover, > that he had been hospitalized with BOTH Carl Solomon AND Allen Ginsberg, > that he worked closely with Harry Partch, > that he was the producer of Timothy Leary''s "Psychedelic Theater". > Nor did he say he had known Jordan Belson, Philip Lamantia, > Michael McClure, Harold Edgerton, Dennis Hopper, > Ken Kesey, Bob Dylan, Stewart Brand, Charlie Parker, Lenny Bruce, > Marshall McLuhan or Huey Newton, but indeed he has. > > He also failed to mention that he had a bathtub rigged as a waterpipe > on his barge in Sausalito, which he got Count Basie high with. > > M.M. says he's coming back in a couple of months. > Do not dare miss Gerd Stern's return. > He is one of the greatest raconteur's living on this planet. > > Just saying, > > DB > ___ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > -- Andy Ditzler www.filmlove.org www.johnq.org ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
[Frameworks] Yalkut's AQUARIAN RUSHES
At the Filmmaker's Coop a week ago the fearless indefatigable M.M. Serra along with perspicacious resident scholar Greg Zinman presented (for a tiny group of cognoscenti) the astounding part 2 of a Jud Yalkut Memorial Screening. Like a lightning bolt out of the darkness they projected a pristine print of one of the least seen most amazing masterpieces of counterculture cinema, the fabled AQUARIAN RUSHES (1970), Yalkut's scintillating hybrid distillation of the 1969 Woodstock Music & Art Fair. Said to be a favorite of Martin Scorsese, believe it !! AQUARIAN RUSHES is the object of a prolonged endeavor, a grail, wondrous but not explicitly "holy", a hybrid of film,video and digital manipulation with psychedelic schisms and otherworldly tactilities, as ecstatic as it is intimate. Yalkut is here a witness wrapped in wonder, an avant-garde filmmaker at the height of his powers of observation, with a fascination for backstage minutiae as well as legendary performances in never before seen oblique angles. As if that wasn't enough, the master of sensory overload, legendary 85 year old multichannel poet Gerd Stern, founder of USCO the Intermedia commune in upstate New York, wandered in with unforgettable stories to tell... meeting Harry Smith eating casaba melons at Jimbo's Bop City in the late 40's. By flashlight, sworn to silence, seeing Harry's art work placed on the floor of his flophouse in San Francisco's Fillmore district before anyone knew he was a filmmaker. Quoting Charlotte Moorman at one of the first Expanded Cinema Festivals in the early Sixties: "When you're playing the cello with flowers you have to listen closely". What he did not tell was that he was Maya Angelou's lover, that he had been hospitalized with BOTH Carl Solomon AND Allen Ginsberg, that he worked closely with Harry Partch, that he was the producer of Timothy Leary''s "Psychedelic Theater". Nor did he say he had known Jordan Belson, Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, Harold Edgerton, Dennis Hopper, Ken Kesey, Bob Dylan, Stewart Brand, Charlie Parker, Lenny Bruce, Marshall McLuhan or Huey Newton, but indeed he has. He also failed to mention that he had a bathtub rigged as a waterpipe on his barge in Sausalito, which he got Count Basie high with. M.M. says he's coming back in a couple of months. Do not dare miss Gerd Stern's return. He is one of the greatest raconteur's living on this planet. Just saying, DB ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
