excentrique(s)

sound & vision

glass pieces

I'm excited to be going to the San Francisco Ballet this evening to see 

Jerome Robbin's Glass Pieces, set to score by Phillip Glass.

My thanks to Sesame Street for introducing me to him so many years ago.

the Archers

dancing light

RIP to experimental abstract filmmaker

 Jordan Belson who passed last week

"Part avant-garde animator, part optical alchemist, part mystic, part psychologist of perception, Mr. Belson made more than 30 short films between the late 1940s and 2005, all of which defy ready classification.

Wordless, they employ moving, abstract images of mercurial fluidity painstakingly choreographed to music. As they slowly change size, form, color and direction, the images rivet the eye."

                                                   

                                                 -New York Times 

a memorial screening of his work

 is happening October 19 at Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley. 

I am unable to post his work but here are a few of his contemporaries- 

all are wizards of light.

six wives

starstruck

soft self

there's no place like home

holy mountain

"I make art because I'm an apple tree." 

-Alejandro Jodorowsky

watchful eye

love is strange

"You know who that son of a bitch looks like? I'll kiss your ass if he don't look just like james Dean!"

it's all too beautiful

spellbound

funeral parade of roses