Word: watchfulnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discovered what I knew all along: I am not a film director. I'm a film maker. A film director is somebody who directs people-large operations. I like to sit down behind a camera and shoot pretty pictures and then cut them together and watch the magic come as I combine images and tell stories." The director, he goes on, is like a general sitting in the war room and sending other men to battle. He calls the film maker a lieutenant who actually leads his patrol across enemy lines...
Brown said societies risk losing money on an artistic film when everyone else shows more recent commercial films. He added that the groups can not afford to risk one weekend's earnings. Izkowitz said he has not shown "one film which could be considered bad," since he has "to watch them too." But he added, "People aren't willing to experiment, to broaden their horizons. They come to see Clockwork Orange or Dr. Strangelove, but they won't come to see an earlier Kubrick...
...boys execute a run and fall as if it were a Little League slide into home plate. After three sections of the kids, just as energetic, and the teachers, acting just as oddly as in this opening section, the work ends with the same boys' action. Interesting to watch at every moment, "May Day" exhibits Armour's style in its unusual gesturing, in the way one dancer carts around or molds another, and in the way two unrelated images are slammed together on stage...
...this version with around fifteen, the work uses an easy, loppy movement style. From a distance, I thought it was a baseball game and not the dance I had come to see. It is a lot like a game, and makes you laugh without being humorous. Interesting to watch is how the simplest actions, like running and forming lines, are the most exciting in open space, and how absurd gestures look even funnier when windswept...
...WHAT'S WRONG with Harvard students? Why do we sit by idly and watch the Harvard Corporation support apartheid and protest half tongue-in-cheek for our hot scrambled eggs, while other undergraduates around the country, presumably just as occupied with their work and play as we are, risk arrest or expulsion to protest institutional investment in oppression...