Underground Film Guide » 1962 http://www.ufilmguide.com A Film Guide to the Strange, Unusual and Controversial Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:39:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Here I Am http://www.ufilmguide.com/825/here-i-am/ http://www.ufilmguide.com/825/here-i-am/#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:37:51 +0000 Mike Everleth http://www.ufilmguide.com/?p=825 Here I Am

Director: Bruce Baillie

Starring: Not Applicable

Year: 1962

Runtime: 10 mins.

Synopsis: Here I Am is a sensitive, low-key portrait of the East Bay Activity Center, a school in Oakland, California, started in the 1950s to help emotionally disturbed children. The atmospheric documentary opens with hilly East Bay streets shrouded in fog. The mist lifts as the film moves to children at play. Often shown in unobtrusive close-up, the youngsters appear as thinking individuals, enjoying the swings, puzzling out problems, or interacting with their teacher in the classroom. (from Treasures IV DVD)

DVD: Treasures IV: American Avant-Garde Film, 1947-1986 (compilation DVD)

Official Website: None

Reviews: DVD Talk (Glenn Erickson)

Video: None

]]> http://www.ufilmguide.com/825/here-i-am/feed/ 0 Heaven & Earth Magic http://www.ufilmguide.com/450/heaven-earth-magic/ http://www.ufilmguide.com/450/heaven-earth-magic/#comments Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:47:42 +0000 Mike Everleth http://www.ufilmguide.com/?p=450

Director: Harry Smith

Starring: Not Applicable

Year: 1957-62

Runtime: 66 mins.

Synopsis: Harry Smith describes Film #12 as follows, “The first part depicts the heroine’s toothache consequent to the loss of a very valuable watermelon, her dentistry and transportation to heaven. Next follows an elaborate exposition of the heavenly land, in terms of Israel, Montreal and the second part depicts the return to Earth from being eaten by Max Muller on the day Edward the Seventh dedicated the Great Sewer of London.”

One of Smith’s most well-known works; this black and white collage film culled from cut-outs from nineteenth-century catalogues, the film traverses the landscape of an hermetic dream. (from Harry Smith Archives)

DVD: Harry Smith Archives

Official Website: None

Underground Film Timeline: 1950 — 1959 (incorrectly credited as being finished in 1958 — may change with updates)

Reviews: Chicago Reader (Fred Camper)

Video: None

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Director: Shirley Clarke

Starring: Warren Finnerty, Jerome Raphael, Garry Goodrow, Jim Anderson, Carl Lee, Barbara Winchester, Henry Proach, Roscoe Lee Browne, William Redfield, Freddie Redd

Year: 1962

Runtime: 110 mins.

Synopsis: The Connection depicts the same type of angel-headed hipsters that Kerouac coloured his books with, and is set in a one-room tenement where junkies, musicians, and other dudes await the arrival of the Cowboy. The Cowboy is their “Connection” who will provide them with their heroin fix. All the while, Clarke shows us a documentary filmmaker who wants to capture the hip scene encouraging his subjects to just “act naturally” in front of the camera. (from Senses of Cinema)

DVD: Jazz Movie Classics

Official Website: None.

Reviews: Senses of Cinema (Bill Blick)
TV Guide (Unknown)

Video: None

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