Film
David Holzman’s Diary + Weather Diary 3
- 7PM
Dir. Jim McBride, 75min
This "totally delightful satire" (The New York Times) of a narcissistic young artist unloading comic-neurotic monologues to his 16mm camera is one of the most influential films of the 1960s. No longer able to deal with life outside celluloid, all of his ties to the real world begin to erode.
Dir. George Kuchar, 25min
“The videos in the weather diaries depict the turmoil, tedium, terror and televised terrain of tornado country through the eyes of a transplant,” the late director said of the third installment in his charateristically inventive series. Including his interactions with storm chasers in Oklahoma, it was shot in 8mm video and edited entirely in the camera, contributing to his influence on John Waters and David Lynch, among other artists.
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