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Sunday, February 6, 2011

22 short films 1968 - 1976

Part of deadline discipline is knowing when you just have to phone it in. Here's this week's retrieval from the archive - stills from the 22 short films, these from my sister's and my childhood. Captions are cursory as I'm posting from a borrowed computer at a birthday party (I am beyond the pale).


Dad holding sis, with Les and Jody, our Berkeley friends


Dad




My sister has just smeared Mom with frosting. Ruthie loved it. 





It was at pinata parties that I learned the power of my id. 




With newborn Colin Crawford



The person behind the camera is not doing it right.



Dad and friends spearfished for eel





My sister was a dancing fairy, with unfortunate consequences for me












She stepped over me and kept dancing





Mom, Sis, Dad


With Leslie Heller







Another pinata party

1 comments:

TwinkleToes said...

Thanks for phoning it in... Some days one must... Thats apart of the commitment...anyway, it proved fun fodder for co~fueling afternoon coffee... Much love dear...x tt

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Paul Festa’s first film, Apparition of the Eternal Church (2006, 51 min), is a profoundly original investigation into the act of listening to music (cast: Justin Bond, John Cameron Mitchell, Harold Bloom; screenings: Grace Cathedral, Barbican Centre, Library of Congress; press: “Remarkable”–The New Yorker; “Stunning”–Chicago Sun-Times; “Sublime”–Globe & Mail; numerous awards). Festa performs the Tchaikovsky violin concerto, opposite members of the San Francisco Ballet and The Cockettes, in his award-winning second film, The Glitter Emergency (2010, 20 min), a silent-film drag ballet comedy (“Enormous visual and musical inventiveness… full of pleasure and joy….Festa gives a bravura performance."—Film Threat). He produced, wrote and edited, with director Austin Forbord, and was chief archivist, for the documentary Stage Left, A Story of Theater in San Francisco (2010, 80 min: with Robin Williams, Bill Irwin, Peter Coyote; “Intriguing...entertaining...a valuable record”—Variety). Performances as violinist and actor: Center for Performance Research, Kunst-Stoff, TheatreFIRST, Stephen Pelton Dance Theater, North Bay Shakespeare. US, Boston, NYC, SF, LA and DC (Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress, on the “Betts” Stradivarius) premieres of Messiaen’s Fantaisie for violin and piano. He is the author of OH MY GOD: Messiaen in the Ear of the Unbeliever, based on Apparition of the Eternal Church, and several anthologized essays. Current projects include Tie It Into My Hand, a documentary feature about the artist's life, and Heaven Descending, a novel. Education: Yale (B.A.; prizes, honors, distinction), Juilliard (Cert., Adv. Cert., scholarships). Residencies: Yaddo, MacDowell, ODC Theater, Centre des Récollets.

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