Event
Engauge 2023 Harry Smith Centenary Celebration with Lori Goldston and Friends [In-Person Only]
Sat Nov 04: 8.30pm PDT
$18 General Admission
$13 NWFF/SIFF/GI/PCNW member
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Festival - Engauge Experimental Film Festival 2023 [In-Person Only]
On Film
(66 min TRT)
Polymath, Beat-era experimental filmmaker, ethnographer, and occultist Harry Smith (1923-1991) was raised in and around Anacortes, WA. Join us as we celebrate Smiths centenary with a 16mm screening of Smiths film Heaven and Earth Magic, accompanied live by the brilliant Lori Goldston and friends.
Bret Lunsford will also join us with copies of his wonderful new book about Smiths early life in the Pacific Northwest: Sounding for Harry Smith.
Harry Smith describes Heaven and Earth Magic:
The first part depicts the heroines toothache consequent to the loss of a very valuable watermelon, her dentistry and transportation to heaven. Next follows an elaborate exposition of the heavenly land, in terms of Israel, Montreal and the second part depicts the return to Earth from being eaten by Max Muller on the day Edward the Seventh dedicated the Great Sewer of London.
About Harry Smith:
Harry Everett Smith (May 29, 1923 November 27, 1991) was an underground influencer of 20th century music, art and film. He grew up the Pacific Northwest, then left in the late 40s to participate in the San Francisco Beat and Greenwich Village creative communities. Smiths impact on American culture continues, and has accelerated since his death in 1991, with numerous books, music events, museum exhibits, albums and documentaries devoted to his work.
A Grammy winner for lifetime achievement, he was famous everywhere underground, in the words of Allen Ginsberg, who recalled: He was given a moment to make a speech and said very briefly that he was happy to live long enough to see the American political culture affected and moved and shaped somewhat by American folk music, meaning the whole rock-n-roll, Bob Dylan, Beatnik, post-Beatnik youth culture.
From the Whitney Museum of American Arts 2023 Harry Smith exhibition, Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: the Art of Harry Smith
Over the course of fifty years, Smith made renegade and innovative use of the changing recording and distribution technologies, from his voracious approach to record collecting to experiments with early tape-recording systems to groundbreaking manipulations of abstraction and collage in film. Smith was an innovator in collecting, organizing, and sequencing images and artifacts that structure the ways we understand and share culture and experiences today. He created a life and practice largely outside of institutions and capitalism, offering an eccentric model for engagement with a society today even further dominated by these systems.
Vitally, Smith brought to light and wrestled withsometimes imperfectlyfacets of Americas rich histories, tracing and sharing underappreciated veins of culture often invisible to mainstream society. Very much outside of his time, Smith nonetheless created his own rich vein of American culture that says more about this country, its arts, and its diverse creative communities than nearly any other artist of his time.
whitney.org/exhibitions/harry-smith
The Artist and Mystic Who Collected the World New York Times August 14, 2023
Subscribe for updates about author/musician Bret Lunsfords book and blog about Harry Smiths Pacific Northwest childhood
artforum.com/print/197205/animating-the-absolute-harry-smith-36216
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About Lori Goldston:
Lori Goldston is a cellist and composer from Seattle. Her voice as a cellist draws connections between far-flung ideas and explores timbral thresholds of her instrument, driven by a restless curiosity and informed by a long, widely varied history of collaborations with bands, ensembles large and small, composers, film makers and choreographers including Earth, Nirvana, the BBC Scottish Symphony, Mirah, Black Belt Eagle Scout, Helms Alee, Jim Fletcher, Christian Rizzo, Maya Dunietz, Jherek Bischoff, Jessika Kenney, Eyvind Kang, Ilan Volkov, David Byrne, Lonnie Holley, Stuart Dempster, Shelley Hirsch, Ghedalia Tezartes, Ellen Fullman, Lynn Shelton and many, many others.
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