From: Esperanza Collado (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Feb 21 2009 - 02:49:30 PST
Hello,
i dont think you are right with the music on Crossroads. It was a
collaboration piece between Gleeson and Riley. Once I asked Riley about the
piece, he only said he had been working on it for a while and then he
adapted it for the film, so I dont know how the collaboration worked. He
didnt say much more than that If I remember well.
Correct me if Im wrong, but this is what I think.
2009/2/21 Mark Toscano <email suppressed>
> Can't say for certain Bruce never did some variation of the film like what
> you're describing, but I don't think so. The version you describe sounds
> like the film as I've always known it. And some descriptions I've read from
> mid-'70s screenings seem to suggest it's generally been the same throughout
> the years.
>
> The first soundtrack piece is actually a Patrick Gleeson piece (not natural
> sound of the bomb or anything) and the second is Terry Riley's A Rainbow in
> Curved Air.
>
> The + is, at least in part, a sort of re-centering device for the viewer,
> not to mention, I think, a pretty complex and suggestive metaphor. Bruce
> was always a master of suggestion, playing it both subtly and extremely
> unsubtly, which I've always loved.
>
> Actually, I've always wondered if Bruce had at all been influenced by the
> Xs in Snow's La Region Centrale.
>
> Mark T
>
>
> --- On Fri, 2/20/09, k. a.r. <email suppressed> wrote:
>
> > From: k. a.r. <email suppressed>
> > Subject: [FRAMEWORKS] Question about Crossroads
> > To: email suppressed
> > Date: Friday, February 20, 2009, 5:59 PM
> > Hello everyone.
> > Last night at the New Nothing there was a Bruce Conner
> > screening.
> > They screened 8 of Bruce's films, all in 16mm. (yay!
> > Thanks Rock!!!!)
> >
> > Crossroads clocked in at 38 minutes, but it seemed
> > different than I remember.
> > (I haven't seen it in probably 15 or 17 years, since
> > the good old days of UW-Milwaukee
> > mandatory weekly screenings.)
> >
> > Last night Crossroads consisted of 2 parts. The first was
> > the bomb explosion footage,
> > with the real sound of the planes and explosions.
> > The second part was the bomb footage again, some the same,
> > but some different,
> > and with some mellow instrumental music.
> > In the beginning, and before the second part there was a
> > bit of black leader with a white +.
> >
> > What I remember is a part that was silent? that had the +
> > in white, but the four quadrants of it
> > got filled in with the explosion footage.
> > There were four explosions happening at once in the 4 parts
> > of the cross.
> >
> > So am I remembering it wrong, or am I thinking of a
> > different film with atomic bomb explosions?
> >
> > Any insight greatly appreciated,
> > sincerely,
> > Kristie
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Kristie Reinders, B.F.A.
> >
> > Director of Cinematography, Electric Visions
> >
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