Songs of Innocence and Experience: 1960s Rock & Roll Films
@ Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, October 6th, from 7PM - 9PM
Songs of Innocence and Experience: Experimental Visions—1960s Rock & Roll
Friday, October 6 7pm
— ——- (aka The Rock n Roll Movie) (Thom Andersen & Malcolm Brodwick, 1967, USA, 16mm, 12 min.)
Turn! Turn! Turn! (Jud Yalkut, 1966, USA, 16mm, 10 min.)
Coming Down (Pat O’Neill, 1968, USA, 16mm, 4 min.)
Print Courtesy of Academy Film Archives
Invocation of My Demon Brother (Kenneth Anger, 1969, USA, 16mm, 11 min.)
TRT: 36 min.
This program, presented in conjunction with the Block Museum’s exhibition William Blake and the Age of Aquarius, explores the influence that the energy and musicality of Blake’s poetry had on a range of countercultural and rock musicians in the 1960s, and on several of the experimental filmmakers who utilized their music. Thom Andersen and Malcolm Brodwick’s cryptically-titled — ——- (aka The Rock n Roll Movie) is an explosive, almost primal, music film, aided in large part by its dynamic editing. Jud Yalkut’s Turn! Turn! Turn! is a work of visual and sonic sensory overload, as he films light and electronic sculptures. Coming Down, made by optical printer wizard Pat O’Neill, is another proto-music video featuring the experimental music group The United States of America. Experimental film master Kenneth Anger’s Invocation of My Demon Brother is his most scathing pop-culture compendium, featuring satanic burial rites for a cat, footage of the Vietnam War, and a deliberately discordant Moog soundtrack by Mick Jagger.
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