Film Culture (Spring 1964)

Editor-in-chief and Publisher: Jonas Mekas. Editors: Louis Brigante, George N. Fenin, Adolfas Mekas, Andrew Sarris, P. Adams Sitney, David C. Stone, Harold tiumes. FILM CULTURE is published quarterly | by Film Culture, 414 Park Avenue South, New York 16, N.Y. All letters, subscriptions and manuscripts should be addressed to: FILM CULTURE, GPO BOX 1499, NEW YORK 1, N.Y. Subscription rates (domestic and foreign): $4.00 for one year. Single copy: $1.00. Opinions expressed by the contributors do not necessarily represent those of the editors. Copyright 1963 by Film Culture. Printed in the U.S.A. Publishers’ Printing Representative: Harry Gantt. Distributed by Telestar Distributors, Inc., 155 W. 46th St. New York 35, N. Y. Second Class postage paid at New York, N. Y. SPRING 1964 New York 1, New York FILM CULTURE, NUMBER 32 G.P.O. Box 1499 Ty EOE sales olin esis det eae Meine SRE RG ec rico, cir Ce PR AN ot i PROJECTION OF THOUGHTS — by Gregory Markopoulos ..............00eeceeeees 3 INTERVIEW WITH GREGORY MARKOPOULOS — by Robert Brown ............... 6 “TWICE A MAN” THRICE LOVE, TWICE DEATH — by Robert Brown ............. 9 KENNETH ANGER’S “SCORPIO RISING” — by Carolee Schneemann ............... 9 APPENDIX TO THANATOS IN CHROME — by Ken Kelman ................000005 JE ANDY WARHOL S SLEPEr MOVIE — by Joe Braimard ... 6. occ snvcvcseescsectecesss 12 SOME Wot ON sLeee — by Henry Celdzabler oc... wos cb bccue ease cbseeeis 13 SONNET: HOMAGE TO ANDY WARHOL — by Ron Padgett ..............00ceeees 13 FROM “SONNETS ON EIGHT VARIATIONS OF SLEEP” — by Gerard Malanga ...... 14 Te re ed I. sec ne oe ce ve nec cenen Per cdeaweaus 14 FAUNA SETIWAEV Ve VV El JAGR NIMMEN ceo esc cbc dais os i sie Sd a ees Oy gaiaielw ee aha was 14 ae TH. MEW MOVIES — tbe Bary Baimliett 2c. ci sions bone beens d cana wens 15 FROZEN FRAMES OF A LAST MEETING — by Daisy Aldan .................0005 15 AFTER SEEING JACK SMITH’S “SCOTCH TAPE” — by John Fles ................. 15 Pete eS by Ren Renmei. so sila hk ve ode cae as Oe pee Ree ee bee 16 FROM THE WHITINGS OF JOEL MARRMAN: oo5 <.os vine cds oeen ee kecenevedueeees 19 THE BODY AS WILL AND MOTION — by Serge Gavronsky .............00 cee eeees 22 DEFENSE OF JAYNE MANSFIELD — by Michael McClure ...............000 cues 24 REFLECTIONS ON MOTION PICTURE ANIMATION — by Alexandre Alexeieff ..... 28 A BACKGROUND TO FREE ANIMATION — by Douglass Crockwell ................ 30 SOME NOTES ON PAINTING AND FILM-MAKING — by Jerome Hill ............... 31 VAMPYR— AN INTERVIEW WITH BARON DE GUNZBURG by Herman Weinherg & Gretchen Weinhere@ oi. css 5 ip ks ce beweca debe seeeds 57 ROSSELLINI REDISCOVERED — tiv Amelrew Semis oii os ovs 0 on ea xas bse anes 60 SEELETON KEYS — by Francais: Trbait ss... cio bocce ns oa 0 acu s cueeiat aman w ase ee 63 LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL — by Jack Hirschman .............0cccseecevcess 68 OBERHAUSEN OBERHAUSEN — by George Moorse ..............cccceececceeecs 70 COFFEE, BRANDY & CIGARS XLIII — by Herman G. Weinberg ................... 72 PO neers eae 00 a eee Rae oa Oe ee ee cei Tm ee yg 75 INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS 33: Taylor Mead and Jerome Hill (L. to R.) on the set of Open The Door and See All the People. 34-37: Work sketches and stills from Jerome Hill’s Open The Door and See All The People. 38-40: Stills from Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures. 41-42: Stills from Jack Smith’s Normal Love. 43: Stills from Jean Genet’s Un Chant d’Amour. 44-45: Stills from Storm De Hirsch’s Goodbye In The Mirror. 46: Markopoulos and Beverly Grant during the shooting of “The Iliac Passion.” Still by John Garetti, 47: Kenneth Anger (photo by E. Teske) 48: Work sketches from Naomi Levine’s Yes 49: Alexandre Alexeieff with stills from his animated films. 50: Letter from Samuel Fuller to Film Culture. 51: Samuel Fuller on the set of The Naked Kiss 52-53: Stills from Samuel Fuller’s The Naked Kiss with Constance Towers and Monte Mansfield’ 54: Jean Harlow 55: Jayne Mansfield in a scene from Kiss Them All For Me. 56: Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg Photo by Horst. ON THE COVER: Kenneth Anger on the set of Scorpio Rising.