#harry-smith — Public Fediverse posts

A man who fell from his wheelchair into a lake and his little beagle saved his life

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obmaru / patricia marx. 1953

https://youtu.be/iMBy21Od1NQ?si=eQgxQAGRdOimpuTN

Description

A mystical, surreal abstract film recreating a psychedelic experience produced under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs, accompanied by a voodoo score.

“Patricia Marx was born in Queensland, Australia, and was a landscape painter and model there before moving to San Francisco. However, when she arrived, she found herself in the midst of fascinating non-objective painting and filmmaking activity. She was greatly influenced by the work of Harry Smith and Jordan Belson, and changed her own style to non-objective, receiving graphic inspiration from Jungian brain drawings, symbols in the occult sciences, and the design used by Eastern cultures, all of which being important elements in the San Francisco school mystical school of non-objective art”. (Robert Pike, “A Critical Study of the West Coast Experimental Film Movement”.
Presented at 1953 Art in Cinema Festival, IX International Design Conference in Aspen, 1961 Montreal and Melbourne Film Festivals).

Note: In addition to this being an excellent example of the San Francisco style of surreal, mystical abstract animations, this films is also the closest available comparison to the films of Jordan Belson produced during the same period: MAMBO and CARAVAN. These films have have been removed from distribution by Belson.

[Source: Creative Film Society Catalog, 1975]

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Other Credits

Improvised music score by Kaye Dunham

https://www.alternativeprojections.com/films/obmaru/

#abstract #art #arte #film #hallucinogenicDrugs #HarrySmith #JordanBelson #KayeDunham #mystical #PatriciaMarx #psychedelicExperience #RobertPike #surreal #video

#pdx people, come out this weekend to any of the events being put on around town to celebrate #harrysmith ‘s 100th Birthday and support the Harry Smith Archives. Sure to be interesting. https://harrysmitharchives.com/events/portlands-prodigal-son/

Harry Smith Says Goodbye To NBC News After 12 Years: “I Have Nothing But Gratitude”
#News #HarrySmith #NBCNews #Today

https://deadline.com/2024/03/harry-smith-leaving-nbc-news-watch-1235871995/

Harry Smith’s Myth:
On the life and work of the art world’s most enigmatic muse
✍🏽 🎥 🎞️ 🎶 🖼️ #Art #Cinema #Film #music #curating #drawing #painting #ethnomusicology #HarrySmith #collecting #collectors #occultists #AbstractArt #filmmakers #RecordProducers #CounterCulture #books #ArtWorld

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/harrys-myth-casper

#Bales2023FilmChallenge December 22: #mathematics on #MathematicsDay in India

Mahagonny (1980) is film maker, artist, musicologist, and alchemist #HarrySmith's mathematical analysis of #MarcelDuchamp's masterpiece The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, aka The Large Glass (1923). It is set to #Brecht and #Weill's #opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny from 1930.

#AllenGinsberg #LotteLenya #JonasMekas #PattiSmith #film #cinema #CineMastodon #ExperimentalFilm @film @art_film

Today: fun matinee at the Whitney with John Zorn playing live soundtracks to Harry Smith films with Kenny Grohowski, Jorge Roeder, and Ikue Mori. Dreamlike.

#nycfreaks #livemusic #whitney #jazz #johnzorn #nyc #tappedin #cinema #harrysmith #art #museum

Zodiac Sign
by Harry Smith. 1974

#HarrySmith #Art #Mysticism #Painting #Abstract