[Reader-list] A Season of Footage and Films, Part 9, Four Times Bob. Saturday Feb. 19 at CAMP

[shaina a]

Dear all,

CAMP continues our winter season of screenings exploring footage both within
and without the usual capsule of "the film"

Tomorrow, February 19th, we present: *Four Times Bob*


A cut of four films on Bob Dylan, 100 mins.
7:00 pm onwards
At
CAMP roof <http://camputer.org/campstudio.html>
301, Alif Apartments,
Chium village, Khar (w)
Mumbai- 52


"For individuals to have access to as much different work by one
contemporary performer as is available to you and me in the case of Dylan is
something new under the sun, suggesting whole new possible realms in the
relationship between artist and audience."

- The Early Years, by Paul Williams, 1990


In this screening, we traverse through footage from various films created
around Bob Dylan, including:

1>* Don't Look Back* ( D.A. Pennebaker, 1967, 96 mins) is a landmark; as a
film and as a document of rock history. Directed by D.A.Pennebaker, one of
the pioneers of direct cinema, the film starts with one of the first-of-its
kind "music videos", and proceeds to document everything, from intimate
late-night moments to live performances in Dylan's 1965 tour of England.

2>* Eat The Document* ( Bob Dylan,1972, 54 mins) : In 1966, Pennebaker once
again accompanied Dylan on his tour of the UK - this time Dylan had 'gone
electric', with The Hawks backing him through the second half of his
performance. After this tour, Dylan would not allow Pennebaker to complete
the film. Eventually, Dylan and Howard Alk spent some time editing what
became "Eat the Document", a widely bootlegged piece of video material.

3> *No Direction Home* ( Martin Scorsese, 2005, 208 mins) :  This film is a
series of interviews with Dylan himself, Joan Baez and others. The film
inter-cuts the interviews with pieces of footage taken from earlier films,
piecing together Dylan's life from his arrival in New York City in '61 up
until his motorcycle accident in '66.

4>* I'm Not There* ( Todd Haynes, 2007, 135 mins) : The film has six
characters enacting different 'ghosts' of Bob Dylan. The movie contains
many, sometimes surreal, re-enactments of scenes from archival footage,
mostly from the above films.


"here lies bob dylan
murdered
from behind
by trembling flesh
who after being refused by Lazarus,
jumped on him
for solitude
but was amazed to discover
that he was already
a streetcar &
that was exactly the end
of bob dylan

he now lies in Mrs. Actually's
beauty parlor
God rest his soul
& his rudeness

two brothers
& a naked mama's boy
who looks like Jesus Christ
can now share the remains
of his sickness
& his phone numbers

there is no strength
to give away -
everybody now
can just have it back

here lies bob dylan
demolished by Vienna politeness-
which will now claim to have invented him
the cool people can
now write Fugues about him
& Cupid can now kick over his kerosene lamp
boy dylan-killed by a discarded Oedipus
who turned
around
to investigate a ghost
& discovered that
the ghost too
was more than one person."

- Bob Dylan, Tarantula, 1965-66
See you there!

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