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Easter Island Bunny

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"Easter Island Bunny": When I think of the many, MANY hundreds, if not thousands, of events that friends of mine & I have organized over the last 45 years it amazes me to think of how much effort we put into things, rarely making more than a few dollars, usually having a good time, it amazes me. There IS documentation - but as is the case here, the conditions weren't usually great, the place was too dark, people got in the way of the cameras, there was understaffing, etc. For my portion of this gig, I made an "Easter Island Bunny edit", a retrospective of selections from movies of mine from the 12 years of my movie-making so far. Much of the footage was intense, explicit, I bared all, so to speak. The formal innovations were more or less non-stop & the content was far more than most people were ready for. To make matters even more labor-intensive for myself, I single-frame super-8mm shot my 15 hours of vaudeo (etymological deviance intentional) to reduce it to a 2 reel film. As the filming progresses, I also played with changing the channels & with superimposing transparencies over the TV screen. This was the 1st time I'd played with Neil Feather & John Sheehan, both of whom had re…

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tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE

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BalTimOre, Hour House, 1987, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, John Sheehan, Laughing Tree, Neil Feather, No Tourist Attraction, experimental filmmaking, experimental music, experimental usic, rock & roll

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