Re: Looking for prints to screen / From JONAS

From: Salise Hughes (email suppressed)
Date: Fri Sep 11 2009 - 14:59:38 PDT


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> "Obsenity doesn't exist in art. It exists only in life."

"art is life" fluxus

Excuse me for interrupting, but there's a Woody Allan quote that would work
well here: " Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad TV".

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Cari Machet <email suppressed> wrote:

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> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 4:41 PM, LBurchill <email suppressed>wrote:
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>> Jonas Mekas asked me to post his response to the thread regarding looking
>> for prints and Brakhage's Lovemaking:
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>> Fred, you are really joking because I would never say anytihng against
>> any of Stan's films, because they are all great in their own ways. Where
>> did you pull out that kind of nonsense, me saying whatever against
>> LOVEMAKING? We all voted it into Anthology's Essential Cinema repertory
>> collection an it will always remain there no matter who says what. I like it
>> and please retract your invented reference to me because I never said
>> anything against the film. LOVEMAKING is undetachable part of Stan's poetic
>> work and
>> it's almost ridiculous to argue about it. Obsenity doesn't exist in
>> art. It exists only in life.
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> Now, we can argue abut that... But not about Stan's film.
>> Jonas
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>> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Cari Machet <email suppressed>wrote:
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>>> well our expectations of people often do not pan out
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>>> this is not my experience of jonas at all
>>> i am not surprised one bit by his reaction
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>>> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Fred Camper <email suppressed> wrote:
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>>>> Quoting "k. a.r." <email suppressed>:
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>>>>> Thanks Fred. Do you know which film has that scene in it?
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>>>> No, sorry.
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>>>> Quoting Cari Machet <email suppressed>:
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>>>> 'even jonas'
>>>>> are you joking?
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>>>> Of course I'm not joking. Why would I be "joking?" "Even Jonas" because
>>>> Jonas is not someone I would have expected that reaction from...
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>>>> Fred Camper
>>>> Chicago
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