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 Declarative Mode Paul Sharits 1976–7, 40min, 16mm double projection, silent, colour This film, rather than being 'structural,' is 'narrative like.' We feel as if we are on some sort of journey, where we never know/predict what is to 'happen' next. It is engaging, like a novel full of surprises. The 'narrative' feeling is like a soap opera, which just keeps twisting and turning, with no apparent resolution intended (but there is a closure on the purely formal level), as opposed to say Miami Vice wherein the dramatic line moves towards and achieves a weekly resolution. This work prefigures a long series of 30 min. chapters in a 'Light Novel,' PASSARE, which I am presently working on (which could finally reach 40 hours in total length before I die). Aside from a recurrent red, white and blue phrase, there is no repetition in the film (repetition conventionally provides structural order). — Sharits |
 Scenes From the Life of Andy Warhol Jonas Mekas 1963, 37min, 16mm, sound, colour This film is made up of my film diaries relating to Andy Warhol from the years 1965-1982. Locations are New York and Montauk, the Factory, House of George Maciunas, Village Gate, Psychiatrist's Convention, home of Stephen Shore, the Warhol Estate, etc. The cast includes: Lou Reed, Nico, Edie Sedgwick, Gerard Malanga, Andy Warhol, Allen Ginsberg, Ed Sanders, Barbara Rubin, Tuli Kupferberg, Peter Orlovsky, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, George Maciunas, Vincent Fremont, Henry Geldzahler, Paul Morrissey, Karen Lerner, Jay Lerner, Peter Beard, Tina Radziwill, John D'Allessandro, Caroline Kennedy, Mick Jagger, and many others. — Mekas  Little Stabs at Happiness Ken Jacobs 1958–63, 16 min, 16mm, sound, colour Consists of six short episodes, loosely linked by Brooklyn slum locations and the intermittent presence of Jack Smith in pierrot costume. Three are accompanied by old and scratched 78 r.p.m. records, one by the director's own narration, and two are shown silent. Titles are as follows: (1) In the Room; (2) They Stopped to Think; (4) It Began to Drizzle; (6) The Spirit of Listlessness. Parts (3) and (5) are untitled. — Jacobs |
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