Movie Details
Theatrical Release:December 1st, 1969
Original Language:English
Some Manipulations (1969)
3 minDec 1st, 1969
A fourscreen within one frame film shot in unslit regular 8mm in four sections of four performance happening destruction art events presented in 1967 at the Judson Gallery below Washington Square in New York City SOME MANIPULATIONS captures the confrontational light pieces of Jean Toche an avant garde musical performance by Nam June Paik and cellist Charlotte Moorman an actionist painting event by Steve Rose and a classic Dada lectureperformance by Al Hansen SOME MANIPULATIONS was premiered in December 1967 as one of the continuous loop elements in Jud Yalkuts DESTRUCT FILM environment in which spectatorparticipants were obliged to walk sit on and dive into a floor covered with unrolled junk 16mm film in order to view the rotating slide and film projections The films inclusion represented an instance of ultimate feedback of events back into the space in which they had been presented
DirectorJud Yalkut
