Re: Venice Pier by Gary Beydler

From: Ted Sonnenschein (email suppressed)
Date: Wed Sep 03 2008 - 10:40:18 PDT


Any chance you can share what some of the images are like? Taste us with a
still?

Ted

On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 4:29 AM, Mark Toscano <email suppressed> wrote:

> Will do, Pip. Gary's films were indeed distributed by Freude through her
> company Serious Business. A couple of the prints of Gary's I have still
> have their labels on 'em.
>
> I'm thrilled you helped get his films into Light Cone, because they seem to
> show quite frequently around Europe, and there's been a continuing, quite
> strong international interest in his work because of that.
>
> All the best,
>
> Mark
>
> p.s. Does anyone know how Freude is these days? I don't know her at all,
> but was curious, as I'd heard she was ill.
>
>
> --- On Sun, 8/31/08, Pip Chodorov <email suppressed> wrote:
>
> > From: Pip Chodorov <email suppressed>
> > Subject: Re: [FRAMEWORKS] Venice Pier by Gary Beydler
> > To: email suppressed
> > Date: Sunday, August 31, 2008, 2:56 PM
> > Mark, your story reminds me of how I tracked down Gary
> > Beydler many years ago.
> > I knew Pasadena Freeway Stills (there was a print at the
> > University
> > of Rochester), but didn't know how to reach Gary. I
> > came across a
> > print at the Donnell library in New York, and
> > "Freude" was written on
> > the can. I knew about Freude Bartlett through a TV show my
> > dad wrote
> > and produced in the 60s, for which he often invited
> > filmmakers, and
> > he had an old phone number for her. I called her out of the
> > blue, and
> > from her got a number for Gary. This was a few years before
> >
> > FrameWorks. He was happy to put Pasadena and Hand Held Day
> > into
> > distribution at Light Cone, where they have been rented
> > often over
> > the years. I have not been in touch with him since then.
> > Say hi for
> > me!
> > -Pip
> >
> >
> > At 12:55 -0700 31/08/08, Mark Toscano wrote:
> > >Amazingly, the only reason I have ANYTHING on Los Ojos
> > (I have one
> > >good print) is that a guy had found a reel of three of
> > Gary's films
> > >in a flea market in (I think) Atlanta 25 years ago, and
> > bought it,
> > >having no idea who he was or what the films were. He
> > watched the
> > >films and really loved them, and shared them with
> > friends over the
> > >years. Just a year or two ago, he came across a
> > frameworks posting
> > >in which I was trying to track down prints, he got in
> > touch with me,
> > >and sent me the reel, for which I'm extremely
> > grateful. (Gary has
> > >no idea how this could've gotten to a flea market.)
> >
> >
> > __________________________________________________________________
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> > <email suppressed>.
>
>
>
>
>
> __________________________________________________________________
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