Filmed in Belgium with actors from New York’s experimental Living Theater, Thomas White’s first (and only) feature fell into obscurity after its 1966 Cannes Film Festival debut. A group of insane asylum inmates flee a broken-down bus and occupy a nearby farmhouse. As they form a collective threaded by bizarre exercises and slapstick setups, the film spirals out into a freewheeling comedy of disorder, told with unusual verve and intensity, and featuring a dissonant, if deranged, soundtrack by free jazz innovator Ornette Coleman and his trio. Presented in a new digital restoration, Who’s Crazy? Is at once a hidden avant-garde gem and a vibrant, immediate work. A Kino Lorber release. MARCH 10, Film Society of Lincoln Center
https://youtu.be/NTE7ohWC9E8
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Sunday, March 5, 2017
Despite the almost daily blizzard that left the mountains beautiful, skiers in extasy and the house I was fortunate enough to be invited to stay in a buzz, the internet kept going down and there were pictures etc of boobs and Einstein ... sometimes together. Sometimes together. So I navigated my way down the moutain id deapite the weather was able to get to the theaters and watch films.. Movies: the reason I love Sundance . Criticwire was polling critics and here was my ballot:
http://www.indiewire.com/2017/01/jim-fouratt-best-films-sundance-2017-performances-critic-ballot-1201775876/http://www.indiewire.com/2017/01/jim-fouratt-best-films-sundance-2017-performances-critic-ballot-1201775876/
http://www.indiewire.com/2017/01/jim-fouratt-best-films-sundance-2017-performances-critic-ballot-1201775876/http://www.indiewire.com/2017/01/jim-fouratt-best-films-sundance-2017-performances-critic-ballot-1201775876/
Saturday, February 25, 2017
Bet I am the only one that saw Andrew Ahn SPIRIT Award winning film :Movie: Spa Night
first seen at Sundance 2016, then at SXSW and finally it with Spirit 2017 best feature under $500,0099 award... but its emotional integrity and artist risk-taking puts it into the priceless category
Now STREAMING at NETFLIX and Amazon Prime ow
Poetry Project 2016 Joseph Keckler sings HOPE STREET a song weitter by Carol Lipnik
less we forget HOPE is a necessary ingredient as we fight the TRUMP agenda, fight for an end to gun violence an rebuild an equitable society
Friday, February 24, 2017
a true story : the danceteria video lounge: how it came to be ..how a major institution failed to authenticate
Pat Ivers and Emily Armstrong were hired by me to work at Danceteria #1; Their job was to shoot the bands that played on the performance floor up to the video lounge. The video lounge was a concept that I came up with after playing with the video installation at my first successful club HURRAH. There it had been installed by Jane Friedman and Henry Schissler but only as ambient lighting above the dance floor.
When I opened Danceteria, I knew I wanted to make better use of the medium. I asked Emily to program video from their Nightclubbing documentation of bands mostly at CBGB’s (this is why I hired them ..it was a perfect fan/punk sensibility ). They did as asked and mixed in some kitsch.They were under strict orders NOT to take the video of the live bands out of the club They were told they did not own them I was strict about this because of my feeling about artist rights, I never negotiated an agreement with any artist I booked for the use of any live performance video other than for broadcast inside the club. Emily and Pat, in fact, stole the videos and monetized them …NYU’s Fales Library, for example, paid then $50,000 for their archive. One day Pat Ivers came into the club and started screaming that I had stolen their video library, I had not. Later I suspected they had squirreled then out of the club the night before and took them home; I felt terrible they were missing. She carried on like a bereft Mama Llama. Funny story now, but at the time it was not.
About five years later I was in LA and had gone to Long Beach to see a musician friend for lunch with my friend Craig Lee former member of Catholic Discipline (w/ Phranc) and at the time Music Editor of the LA Weekly. After lunch, Craig said let’s go to the Long Beach Museum they have a music video installation that I want to see. So off we went. It was Emily and Pat’s amateur capture of musicians entitled Nightclubbing.Much of it was the “stolen” documentation of Danceteria live performances. I remember feeling glad that they existed and pissed they pulled the stunt they did to cover up their stealing them. They have made all kinds of wild allegations about how they conceptualized a video lounge in nightclubs.
NYU’s Marvin Taylor did not verify their claim to have conceived the video lounge. I remember well asking Rudolf to go to goodwill and asking him to get some cheap couches and tables and old TV to be used as monitors. He agreed but when it was time to do it in construction instead he gave Emily and Pat $500 and the use of a truck to find furniture for the video lounge. They did and under his supervision made the installation of the video lounge. That is what they did .. not conceptualizing but decorating and installing the video monitors. Thet did a good job. But their claim to conceiving the video lounge robs me of my cultural legacy. When we opened Danceteria 2 on 21st Street, I decide to improve the concept. I wanted to showcase the video art emerging from the downtown art world. I hired Kit Fitgerald and John Sanborn who were a part of that emerging scene and gave them the title of Danceteria Video Lounge CURATORS. The live performace broadcast was still an essential part. But in their role of curators, they world premiere work by then unknown video artist that are now part of Museum shows around the world It was part of my concept of ART ATTACK. We went from kitsch to fine art Emily and Pat have never forgiven me. In fact, my name was removed from all materials/posters in their tacky NYU installation they did in an attempt to recreate the original video lounge from Danceteria 1. Today I am of course glad that musical performances I book are now archival fact despite t
Sunday: This is what I did with my Sunday the last week of August in 91-degree weather. I got up early (5:30 AM) and boarded a bus full of men and women to represent Gays Against Guns and to take part in a Coalition March and Rally in front the NRA headquarters in a public act of gun violence and gun killings. We met up of with people from over 40 groups led by the National Action League and the Federation of Teachers, Randi Weinstein, who use to be the head ofTeachers Union in NY, and now heads the National Ofice
Yes, I was campaigning. I was role modeling an engage politician who acts rather than remains silent on things he believes in. And not afraid to do it publicly.
I must tell you I choose to be a silent "Human Being" experience for me. Trigger Ferguson, an erotic performace artist and peoples ' dancer had conceptualized the image of a shrouded, silent figure covered with a white vail moving silently in a group
I carried the sign bearing the name (Jesse Childress) of an active duty soldier 29 years old killed when he he threw himself over the body of a woman soldier in the movie theater n aurora when the mass killer with an assault weapon in his hands attacked . I am still grieving over what happened in Orlando .many of you know I had very successful clubs with the best DJ's for dancing spinning.in the 80's My clubs were alway gay at their core but always open to people who just wanted to have fun and dance and maybe make out ..we were all sexual orientations and gender expressions .. so PULSE I still have not recovered from the deep assault on who we are by a person who should never have been allowed to by a gun I do not want to hear of one more death by gun violence committed by a person who would never have had a gun in their hands..including bad cops. I am grateful to my children who organized Gays Against Guns and to Tigger Ferguson for conceptualizing the "Human Beings" shrouded figures all in white and silent bearing witness to a person killed by a gun that is marketed for profit and sells a masculinity that is brutal even when deranged
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