THE WOMEN’S FILM PRESERVATION FUND continues to be part of MoMA’s To Save & Project film preservation series!
This year we are showing CHRISTINE OF THE BIG TOPS (1926) a
high-flying, romantic melodrama of circus folk from screenwriter
And! 3 short, weird and wonderful films by accomplished amateur
movie-maker MARGARET CONNEELY.
Hope to see you there!
Pakalafaka used to play on the Dr. Demento Radio Show and I recorded it one afternoon with my dad's dictation tape recorder standing in the kitchen in New Rochelle. Must have been Jr. High School. Between songs on the tape were my screams for silence in the house!
Sing right along!
Pachalafaka, pachalafakawe find out what pachalafaka means
Soupy's so romantic! And he loves the 20s!
Meanwhile, here's a clip without the stripper but with a movie marquee.
My faves Wheeler and Woolsey in bed together as always...
...with ethnic types chasing them around.
Of course Bert ends up dressed as a woman!
The film includes wonderful 2-strip technicolor sequences.
The Cuckoos (1930) d. Paul Sloane
A Tiny Little Duck waitin' for it's Mutha!
mixed-media collage 11 x 14 2009
The Tales of Hoffmann (1950) d./p. Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger
Lobbycard, LFC Tales of Hoffmann digital collage 11 x 14 photography: Kelly Campbell
This is a favorite song that I "appropriated" from my brothers' stax as a child. I seem to recall being instructed in dancing "The Swim" by one if not all three of them as kid in our living room in Maine. But I also remember my father bar-b-que-ing in the rec room--but I don't think we had a rec room...
Anyway, kinda like The Monkey, kinda like The Twist
and the only thing close to as fun as The Swim was singing with Shirley Ellis to The Name Game:
I can recite the lesson to this day, "Mary Mary that's an M so Ary, that's the only rule that is contrary!"
Meanwhile, apropos learning, James Brown and Adrian Piper up soon!
It's frustrating because I can't do this right now but I did want to pursue this thread in Tarentino's film. If the movie depends on the "inversion" of Jews with Nazis, as Daniel Mendelsohn proposes, what is suggested by the "Fredrick Zoller" character (played by Daniel Bruhl) who is compared to the concurrent "Sargent York" in the story? For me, the more explicit and complicated reference is to the biography and career of decorated war hero/actor, Audie Murphy. Baby-faced Murphy, of course, played himself and reenacted his war exploits in his film biography and went on to act in many movies mostly in the western and war genres. IB inverts film history proposing that UFA developed a Nazi "Audie Murphy" several years before Hollywood. I find this reference really interesting--more so than "Sgt. York" (a Gary Cooper vehicle I intensely dislike but feel I should revisit). I also think this lends IB a bit more moral(?) complexity than I originally perceived. More later I hope...
Untitled, dimensions variable, ink & mixed media collage, 2009
I was thrilled to be awarded a 2009 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Work.
Parsons The New School for Design, School of Design Strategies is celebrating the creativity of the faculty with a small works show in the cases on the 9th floor. My fellow NYFA recipient Carter Hodgkin and I are featured and will present our work.
Monday September 14th 5.45pm to 7pm
9th Floor, 2 W13th Street
This event and exhibit is geared primarily to the Parson's community (you need an id!) but I did want to let you know about it--I'm very happy to show some of the new collage and video work that I produced this summer!
