Re: Venice Pier by Gary Beydler

From: Mark Toscano (email suppressed)
Date: Wed Sep 03 2008 - 12:27:56 PDT


I don't have any Venice Pier images yet, but could make some in the near future. If Gary doesn't mind, I can put some up.

Mark

--- On Wed, 9/3/08, Ted Sonnenschein <email suppressed> wrote:

> From: Ted Sonnenschein <email suppressed>
> Subject: Re: [FRAMEWORKS] Venice Pier by Gary Beydler
> To: email suppressed
> Date: Wednesday, September 3, 2008, 10:40 AM
> 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.)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> __________________________________________________________________
> > > For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at
> > > <email suppressed>.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> __________________________________________________________________
> > For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at
> <email suppressed>.
> >
>
>
> __________________________________________________________________
> For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at
> <email suppressed>.

      

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