Van Meter in Vineland objective correlative?

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Fri Dec 28 01:06:12 CST 2007


film compilation including Ben van Meter in 1967 (about the time
OBA was advising Harlan Ellison not to pay his taxes?)

http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2006summer/vietnam.html

For Life, Against the War
Directed by The Week of the Angry Arts
US 1967, 16mm, b/w and color, 150 min.

In 1967, a group of artists put out a call for "a personal declaration
by American filmmakers for life and against the War." The films were
compiled and screened as part of The Week of the Angry Arts, a music
and arts festival which mobilized the protest movement.  This
remarkable compilation includes contributions from Manfred Kirkheimer,
Peter Ellison, Ron Finne, Lee Savage, Lionel Martinez, Lloyd M.
Williams, USCO, Peter Gessner, Hilary Harris, Leo Hurwitz, Peggy
Lawson, Tommy Hurwitz, Lewis Jacobs, Stan Vanderbeek, Robert Fiore,
Larry Jordan, Don Duga, Barbara Fultz, Stan Brakhage, Rudy Burckhardt,
Nina Feinberg, Wendy Clarke, Shirley Clarke, Betty Ferguson, Maurice
Amar, Richard Preston, Robert Breer, Max Phillips, Jerry Wakefield,
Tom Bissenger, Ken Jacobs, Mark Sadan, Norman V. Berg, Fred
Wellington, Allen Siegel, Allen Schaff, John Willemeyer, Henry J.
Korn, Jonas Mekas, Abbott Meader, George Breidenbach, Abbe Borov, Ben
Van Meter, Michael Snow, Joyce Wieland, A.M. Jimenez, Stephen
Sellinger, Victor Grauer, Charles Levine, Bob Kinney, Dave Lambert,
Mat Hoffman, Karl Bissenger, and M-Movie Subscription Group. This
preserved film print is provided by Anthology Film Archives.

(also noted at the same URL page, a film called "Point du Depart",
just similar enough to "Rue du Depart" to mention here...)

Starting Place (Point du Départ)
Directed by Robert Kramer
France 1993, color, 83 min.
English, French, and Vietnamese with English subtitles

Produced late in his career, Robert Kramer returns to Hanoi after
nearly 25 years to re-envision the city's struggle through an
uncertain and daunting past, present, and future. The Vietnamese
characters in the film are diverse: Kramer's former guide from an
earlier visit in 1969; a tight-rope walker in the national circus; a
man who took photos of B-52s, and another who lost his fingers
shooting them down.




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