Hello, Tony. Hello, kitty. Hello, Stan. Hello, Carl Th. Hello, Barbet. Hello, Lou, Edie, and John. Hello, Amy.

4 Comments

• otherbill says:

  December 10, 2009 at 11:28 pm

  Just Netflixed it. My know­ledge of “avant-garde” is very greatest hits- Deren, Brakhage, Anger, early Bunuel, etc. Mekas is a name I’ve been encoun­ter­ing in books and art­icles for years without exper­i­en­cing any of his work. I appre­ci­ate the remind­er that there’s so much to explore.
  Off topic- I thought you should know that the nov­el “Push”, which I’m giv­en to under­stand is by Saphire, has been reis­sued to coin­cide with the film. The new edi­tion is titled “Precious, based on the nov­el Push by Saphire”. The jack­et of said volume notes that it includes the nov­el “Push”. I thought per­haps it also included the screen­play or a film diary. Nope- just the nov­el. “Push”, that is. My head hurts.

• Ejstratt.blogspot.com says:

  December 11, 2009 at 9:48 am

  If I’m not mis­taken this film or or some form of it is access­ible for free via ubuweb.
  One thing that struck me is how Tony Conrad looked like he could have been in The Feelies, ten years before The Feelies exis­ted. Truly a man ahead of his time.

• Jason M. says:

  December 11, 2009 at 10:52 am

  A great film from a great film­maker. I’d com­pletely for­got­ten that Mekas put out this DVD earli­er this year; you’ve reminded me just in time for it to hit my Christmas wish list, Glenn. Thanks!
  Now if only we could get a Blu-ray or DVD edi­tion of “As I Was Moving Ahead…” or “Lost, Lost, Lost.”
  As an aside, just watched “Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR” at MoMA this week; for a 5‑hour movie shot with hand­held Sony Handycam off of a TV of mar­gin­al qual­ity in 1990, it’s ridicu­lously engross­ing. Hell, regard­less of how it was shot, it’s ridicu­lously engross­ing. Well worth see­ing. (For any­one in NY, there’s anoth­er MoMA screen­ing on Sunday).

• Dylan P. says:

  December 12, 2009 at 4:39 pm

  Amy was a babe.