Anthology news, 25may2025

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/05/25/anthology-news-25may2025/

#anthology #harrySmith #johnDee #music #news #PseudoNovalis #TheImplicitOrder

obmaru / patricia marx. 1953

https://youtu.be/iMBy21Od1NQ?si=eQgxQAGRdOimpuTN

Description

A mystical, surreal abstract film recreating a psychedelic experience produced under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs, accompanied by a voodoo score.

“Patricia Marx was born in Queensland, Australia, and was a landscape painter and model there before moving to San Francisco. However, when she arrived, she found herself in the midst of fascinating non-objective painting and filmmaking activity. She was greatly influenced by the work of Harry Smith and Jordan Belson, and changed her own style to non-objective, receiving graphic inspiration from Jungian brain drawings, symbols in the occult sciences, and the design used by Eastern cultures, all of which being important elements in the San Francisco school mystical school of non-objective art”. (Robert Pike, “A Critical Study of the West Coast Experimental Film Movement”.
Presented at 1953 Art in Cinema Festival, IX International Design Conference in Aspen, 1961 Montreal and Melbourne Film Festivals).

Note: In addition to this being an excellent example of the San Francisco style of surreal, mystical abstract animations, this films is also the closest available comparison to the films of Jordan Belson produced during the same period: MAMBO and CARAVAN. These films have have been removed from distribution by Belson.

[Source: Creative Film Society Catalog, 1975]

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Other Credits

Improvised music score by Kaye Dunham

https://www.alternativeprojections.com/films/obmaru/

#abstract #art #arte #film #hallucinogenicDrugs #HarrySmith #JordanBelson #KayeDunham #mystical #PatriciaMarx #psychedelicExperience #RobertPike #surreal #video

#pdx people, come out this weekend to any of the events being put on around town to celebrate #harrysmith ‘s 100th Birthday and support the Harry Smith Archives. Sure to be interesting. https://harrysmitharchives.com/events/portlands-prodigal-son/

@mangrovevalley They’re having a 3 day #harrysmith retrospective here in #pdx next weekend. Bummed I am going to be out of town for it.

Harry Smith Says Goodbye To NBC News After 12 Years: “I Have Nothing But Gratitude”
#News #HarrySmith #NBCNews #Today

https://deadline.com/2024/03/harry-smith-leaving-nbc-news-watch-1235871995/

Harry Smith’s Myth:
On the life and work of the art world’s most enigmatic muse
✍🏽 🎥 🎞️ 🎶 🖼️ #Art #Cinema #Film #music #curating #drawing #painting #ethnomusicology #HarrySmith #collecting #collectors #occultists #AbstractArt #filmmakers #RecordProducers #CounterCulture #books #ArtWorld

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/harrys-myth-casper

Mahagonny [Number 18] (Harry Smith, 1980)

Dec

22

राष्ट्रिय गणित दिवस

A kaleidoscopic New York street scene. Mahagonny was “made to be displayed with four separate 16 mm projectors onto a single screen or onto two billiard tables suspended over a boxing ring” (Kevin Arrow, see link below).

A mathematics focused movie for National Mathematics Day, India.

Mahagonny is filmmaker, artist, musicologist, and alchemist Harry Smith's mathematical analysis of Marcel Duchamp's masterpiece La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même [The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even], aka Le Grand Verre [The Large Glass], which was completed in 1923. It is set to Brecht and Weill's opera Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny [Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny] from 1930, which was an opera Smith was obsessed with while living in New York's Chelsea Hotel.

  > “My cinematic excreta is of four varieties:–batiked abstractions made directly on film between 1939 and 1946; optically printed non-objective studies composed around 1950; semi-realistic animated collages made as part of my alchemical labors of 1957 to 1962; and chronologically superimposed photographs of actualities formed since the latter year. All these works have been organized in specific patterns derived from the interlocking beats of the respiration, the heart and the EEG Alpha component and they should be observed together in order, or not at all, for they are valuable works, works that will live forever—they made me gray.” > ### – Harry Smith, via\  

Read an interview with Jonas Mekas about Harry Smith and his Mahagonny.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #MathematicsDay #HarrySmith #MarcelDuchamp #BertoltBrecht #KurtWeill #RoseFeliuPettet #AllenGinsberg #LotteLenya #JonasMekas #PattiSmith #art #mathematics #opera #ExperimentalFilm #USA #1980s

#Bales2023FilmChallenge December 22: #mathematics on #MathematicsDay in India

Mahagonny (1980) is film maker, artist, musicologist, and alchemist #HarrySmith's mathematical analysis of #MarcelDuchamp's masterpiece The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, aka The Large Glass (1923). It is set to #Brecht and #Weill's #opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny from 1930.

#AllenGinsberg #LotteLenya #JonasMekas #PattiSmith #film #cinema #CineMastodon #ExperimentalFilm @film @art_film

Today: fun matinee at the Whitney with John Zorn playing live soundtracks to Harry Smith films with Kenny Grohowski, Jorge Roeder, and Ikue Mori. Dreamlike.

#nycfreaks #livemusic #whitney #jazz #johnzorn #nyc #tappedin #cinema #harrysmith #art #museum

Listen as 91 year old #HarrySmith remembers his childhood before #NHS was voted in. May make you cry. #NationalHealth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsmIfDNeKLY

Zodiac Sign
by Harry Smith. 1974

#HarrySmith #Art #Mysticism #Painting #Abstract

harry smith’s anthology of american folk music must also settle into its rightful place here in the #SquirrellyWhirligig archive — back when music was physical and tracks were engraved in acetate or vinyl and truly rare — an invitation to smith’s apartment in the chelsea hotel a rare privilege #harrysmith
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIp8e66RJrrLRwjalT738els7XcMD0-bS&feature=shared