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mahagonny, after seeing the 35mm print in the theater, i don't see the duchamp connection? anyone? and did anyone else think that ginsberg's apperance was a distraction? did you find the four screen split less as enjoyable as the 2 screen split as i did?

― Vacillating temp (Vacillating temp), Friday, 7 November 2003 23:46 (twenty-two years ago)

what how did they put this together? he never even finished it as far as i understand.

where did this show?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 8 November 2003 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

i wonder if anything exists from his planned version of the wizard of oz

― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 8 November 2003 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw this with Mary some months back, actually. can't say I "got" it or that it was particularly entertaining even, but...interesting nevertheless. < /"Idon'tknowanythingaboutartIjustknowwhatIlike">

― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 8 November 2003 20:14 (twenty-two years ago)

tell me more tell me more did you get very far

― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 9 November 2003 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

post it on friday, back today at my temp assignment. i saw it at the castro in SF. i'm with matos, i don't know anything either about art.
the part with ginsberg bugged me, the brecht/weil opera was great of course, i just tried to take it all in at as many levels as i could pickup. this was the first showing of the restored 35mm print combining the four seperate films, which were supposed to be shown on four pool tables in a boxing ring....

― Vacillating temp (Vacillating temp), Monday, 10 November 2003 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

haha that last part is not a joke??

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 10 November 2003 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)

five years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQe-sRxLP7k

― thirdalternative, Wednesday, 7 October 2009 12:12 (sixteen years ago)

three months pass...

i wonder if anything exists from his planned version of the wizard of oz

My roommate just lucked the fuck out and got "American Magus" from the local library and promptly copied every page of it because I can't afford to spend $160 on a copy of this out of print book. Anyways in it there are a few (?) shots from this film and confirmation that 9 minutes of it exists. I did a little research and I think these 9 minutes have been shown from time to time in recent retrospectives in New York.

Honestly I want nothing more than a remastered DVD of all Harry's available film works but have been getting along fine w youtube/soulseek/bt searches over the years.

Has anyone thrown down the 50 dollars for the DVDs on the archives site? I don't understand why they are selling 3 different $50 discs since the material should all fit on one. Is the quality unimaginably awesome?

― Adam Bruneau, Friday, 29 January 2010 06:41 (sixteen years ago)

Seriously, you could include all the Early Abstractions, Late Superimpositions, Heaven & Earth Magic, and a nice DVD-only bonus of the 9 minutes of Tin Man's Dream!

― Adam Bruneau, Friday, 29 January 2010 06:45 (sixteen years ago)

That book is really incredible though. I guess Heaven & Earth Magic was originally hours long and in full color!

― Adam Bruneau, Friday, 29 January 2010 06:59 (sixteen years ago)

Is that new book the Getty just put out any good? (Harry Smith - The Avant-Garde in the American Vernacular)

― Bob Six, Friday, 29 January 2010 21:47 (sixteen years ago)

I need a Harry Smith book.

― Trip Maker, Friday, 29 January 2010 22:20 (sixteen years ago)

I don't know. Yeah the books are all out of print and upwards of $100 used. We lucked out because a local library had a copy. I recommend doing a library search online.

Haven't read any other books. Just netflixed disc 2 of the "Harry Smith Project" tribute thing. Disc 1 has concert footage and disc 2 is a documentary, though it is interspersed with some godawful and grotesque renditions of old folk songs by the likes of Elvis Costello and David Johansen. Still, it has 3 of his abstract films in full as DVD extras...

― Adam Bruneau, Sunday, 31 January 2010 00:04 (sixteen years ago)

Those folks renditions tho....it's like BluesHammer 2000. *cringe*

― Adam Bruneau, Sunday, 31 January 2010 00:05 (sixteen years ago)

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