Although I think this is really funny and a good description of many experimental movies and/or poems, it does remind me of the time when experimental movies were known as underground movies. This appellation was useful, I now realize in retrospect, because if the movie turned out to be bad, as they often but not always were by any means, one could say to oneself and to anybody who happened to accompany you to the aforesaid film: that one really should have stayed underground. It is precisely because of this expanded recollection that I enjoyed this poem. Thanks, Tom Savage
Alan Sondheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Alan Sondheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"i've always wanted to make an experimental movie.
"i've run out of ideas.
"this is already 24 megabytes and i've been reducing.
"it's an experimental movie.
"it owes everything to joseph cornell.
"it's about the forces of nature and industry.
"everything i've seen is exactly like it.
"it's an experimental movie.
heartlandexperimentalmovie
our innermost being
murmur of purring machines
constant sleepiness in the hollow waiting for our demise
beings before us, beings after us
our sense of being, equivalent to being,
would a bee or a hummingbird, Heidegger, Dasein
these are not idle questions
http://www.asondheim.org/heartlandexperimentalmovie.mp4
i've always wanted to make an experimental movie
now in the heart of the heartland, why not?
for these are empires in the making,! all of them
and we won't be here much longer
i wouldn't even wait if i were you
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