From: Fred Camper (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Mar 24 2009 - 15:15:26 PDT
Myron Ort wrote:
> On Mar 24, 2009, at 8:12 AM, Fred Camper wrote:
>
>>
>> Oh, and by the way, even in his mature period Brakhage made, and
>> released, a few films that I think are simply bad. I told him that
>> once or twice too, and he did not even get angry.
>>
>> Fred Camper
>> Chicago
>>
>
> Did Stan agree with you or just say that everyone is entitled to their
> opinion? Did he perhaps think maybe someday you would understand them?
> Did he defend or explain these films ?
He did not defend them. I think he would have if I were attacking one of
the really great ones. I once heard him reply impatiently to someone who
questioned the editing of "The Text of Light."
The last time I told him of a film I didn't like, it was "The Stars are
Beautiful," and instead of defending the film, he told of showing it
just after completion to Ginsberg, Burroughs, et al., when they stopped
by for a visit, and inferring from their unusual silence that they hated
it. I asked him a bit more, and he implied that the possibility that
they all hated it, having earlier told him they liked other films, gave
him a bit of doubt.
Fred Camper
Chicago
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