Interview with Harry Smith and P. Adams Sitney - Part 3

Recorded in Chelsea Hotel, NYC, 1965.

Edited, for length, as part of the Chelsea Hotel Series - Anthology Film Archives, April 2009

Harry Smith discusses hand drawn film techniques, missing films, the process of "visual music," or painting to sound. Smith also discusses borrowed cameras and the pawn shops they end up in, influences through dance and myth, surrealism, op art, and the cataloging of images and "sortilege" method. Interview finishes with the discussion of a future film idea involving Andy Warhol and a 20 minute picture of Mt. Fuji, Jack Smith, Robert Frank, Stan Vanderbeek animating aboriginal bark painting, a screenplay by Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs and maybe Allen Ginsberg, with Smith supervising. Also ideas to make and distribute underground movies to be shown in little towns.

Audio transferred, compiled, and edited by Victoria Keddie (NYU) for Anthology Film Archives 04/09/09.

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[zereotrope]

A collaborative film with Andy Warhol, Jack Smith, Robert Frank and Stan Vanderbeek with a script by William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac? But he spent the money on a Miami Beach vacation instead of going to Hollywood?

funny guy.