Another filmmaker who has devoted his career to developing the possibilities of Super 8 is David Lee, a New York artist who refers to his work as “experimental politics.” Jonas Mekas has written that David Lee’s work is “…post-Brakhage, post-Snow, post-Frampton, which is to say… absorbed the leading directions in the Avant-Garde Film of the last two decades… uniquely gifted.” Our program will include the following films in both 16mm & Super 8:

Duskly Driven Drift (1974) 19 min. (16 mm.)

Remembering: Clearing Space (1976) 11 min. (16 mm.)

To a World Not Listening (1980) 41 min. (S-8) – “…Super 8 vérité in the tradition of Joe Gibbon’s Spying, Paula Gladstone’s The Dancing Soul of the Walking People, (etc.)…, all of which use an inconspicuous narrow-gauge camera to record the down side of the urban scene. Documenting a dozen or so Lower East Side derelicts, the film opens sensationally with a sleeping man mountainously splayed across the screen— his rags fluttering in the breeze—with a barely visible bit of overexposed traffic miniaturized by his bulk… Much of the film, …was seemingly shot from the hip— it’s filled with striking angles and huge, fragmented torsos…” —J. Hoberman, Village Voice

Obscenity (1981) 26 min. (16mm.)