Excellent news!
The sales figures for Cinema and the Audiovisual Imagination are catching up on the success of Eisenstein on the Audiovisual! Musician Joe Lasqo quoted from Cinema and the Audiovisual Imagination (my text on Maya Deren) for the Electric Shadow Theater event in San Francisco - a big thank you to filmmaker sound artist Chris Lynn (https://framingsounds.com), for this info re this PianoFight music and film evening in the cool Tenderloin quarter.
Also, copies of Rabelaisdada are for sale at Foyle's in Charing Cross Road, the London Review of Books bookshop, the Hundred Years Gallery, and at the Camden Arts Centre, where there's a wonderful show about the Themersons.
A Polish artist and writer filmmaking couple, the Themersons provided a mini-avantgarde dynamism amidst the postwar London gloom. They set up Gaberbocchus Press and published Kurt Schwitters, Bertrand Russell (The Good Citizens' Alphabet & History of the World in epitome satire) and also Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi, all illustrated by Franciszka Themerson's satirical drawings.
In the exhibition there's a hilarious film of a Swedish production of Ubu Roi with puppets and cut-outs, a living cartoon. And on display there's a letter from the local librarian in Hampstead, explaining that their books are, in his view
'of such bizarre nature that they are likely to add little to the Library's resources' so he doesn't 'propose to add these volumes' to their stock.
Well, what a recommendation!
Last, but not least, here are the splendid costume designs created by Theatre Designer Judith van Praag for the Dutch production of The Kingdom:
http://www.redbubble.com/people/judithvanpraag/collections/304915-the-kingdom-costume-sketches
The sales figures for Cinema and the Audiovisual Imagination are catching up on the success of Eisenstein on the Audiovisual! Musician Joe Lasqo quoted from Cinema and the Audiovisual Imagination (my text on Maya Deren) for the Electric Shadow Theater event in San Francisco - a big thank you to filmmaker sound artist Chris Lynn (https://framingsounds.com), for this info re this PianoFight music and film evening in the cool Tenderloin quarter.
Also, copies of Rabelaisdada are for sale at Foyle's in Charing Cross Road, the London Review of Books bookshop, the Hundred Years Gallery, and at the Camden Arts Centre, where there's a wonderful show about the Themersons.
A Polish artist and writer filmmaking couple, the Themersons provided a mini-avantgarde dynamism amidst the postwar London gloom. They set up Gaberbocchus Press and published Kurt Schwitters, Bertrand Russell (The Good Citizens' Alphabet & History of the World in epitome satire) and also Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi, all illustrated by Franciszka Themerson's satirical drawings.
In the exhibition there's a hilarious film of a Swedish production of Ubu Roi with puppets and cut-outs, a living cartoon. And on display there's a letter from the local librarian in Hampstead, explaining that their books are, in his view
'of such bizarre nature that they are likely to add little to the Library's resources' so he doesn't 'propose to add these volumes' to their stock.
Well, what a recommendation!
Last, but not least, here are the splendid costume designs created by Theatre Designer Judith van Praag for the Dutch production of The Kingdom:
http://www.redbubble.com/people/judithvanpraag/collections/304915-the-kingdom-costume-sketches