Program 9: Eye and Ear Control
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The Last Clean Shirt
Alfred Leslie, 1964, 40m
Peggyâs Blue Skylight
Joyce Wieland, 1964, 16mm, 12m
New York Eye and Ear Control
Michael Snow, 1964, 16mm, 34m
This program includes: Alfred Leslieâs The Last Clean Shirt, a collaborative experiment (with poet Frank OâHara) in cinematic parallelism, in which a black man and a white woman drive around downtown Manhattan; Peggyâs Blue Skylight, Joyce Wielandâs document of a day in the loft she shares with her then-husband Michael Snow as a succession of friends visit; and Snowâs own New York Eye and Ear Control, in which a group of free jazz musicians (Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, John Tchicai, Roswell Rudd, Gary Peacock, Sonny Murray) provide accompaniment for a series of images featuring the artistâs iconic Walking Woman silhouette. âThe film,â wrote Snow, âcontains illusions of distances, durations, degrees, divisions of antipathies, polarities, likenesses, complements, desires. Acceleration of absence to presence. Scales of âArtâ-âLife,â setting-subject, mind-body, country-city pivot. Simultaneous silence and sound, one and all.â