[Frameworks] Richard Myers' AKRAN (1969) restored, showing Monday in LA

[melissaparson at comcast.net]

Hey can someone give me Richard's contact info please? 

I studied with him at Kent State in the early 90's, his last classes before retiring... (what a lucky gal i was)  

and have wanted to get in touch but can't find him.  I would like to say hello and see if he's interested in  a screening in Seattle if possible. 

Thanks! 



Melissa Parson 




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Toscano" <fiddybop at yahoo.com> 
To: "Experimental Film Discussion List" <frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 11:16:37 AM 
Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Richard Myers' AKRAN (1969) restored,        showing Monday in LA 

Hi Sandy, 

No, I don't think that'll happen.  Not sure if it will screen again in LA anytime soon... 

Mark 


--- On Mon, 10/18/10, Sandra Maliga <neoreal at maliga.com> wrote: 

> From: Sandra Maliga <neoreal at maliga.com> 
> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Richard Myers' AKRAN (1969) restored, showing Monday in LA 
> To: "Experimental Film Discussion List" <frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com> 
> Date: Monday, October 18, 2010, 9:15 PM 
> Any chance there will be a screening 
> at the Academy in Hollywood? 
> 
> 
> On Oct 16, 2010, at 12:19 PM, Mark Toscano wrote: 
> 
> > Sorry, usually the shows I do in L.A. automatically 
> end up on the  
> > 'This Week'...' mailings, but this one's at UCLA, and 
> I forgot to do  
> > it myself! 
> > 
> > If you're near or in L.A. this Monday, hope you might 
> try to make it  
> > to the Billy Wilder Theater in the Hammer Museum for a 
> 7:30  
> > screening of Richard Myers' legendary AKRAN, from 
> 1969.  It's a  
> > remarkable, unique, and intense piece, incredibly rich 
> and layered,  
> > masterfully executed, visually and aurally 
> arresting.  In its day it  
> > was monumental, but it hasn't been screened much in 
> the past 2-3  
> > decades.  The film has been restored by the 
> Academy Film Archive  
> > (and the heroes at Colorlab) and I'm eager for people 
> to  
> > (re/)discover it.  (And there's no Redcat 
> conflict.) 
> > 
> > Some quotes: 
> > 
> > "Richard Myers is unquestionably a major talent of the 
> American  
> > avant-garde and AKRAN one of his most important films 
> .... It  
> > creates a Joyce-like, dense and somber mosaic of 
> memory and sensory  
> > impressions, a texture instead of a plot, a dream-like 
> flow of  
> > visually-induced associations." (Amos Vogel, Film as a 
> Subversive Art) 
> > 
> > 
> > "...the most influential film since Godard's early 
> work... the  
> > single most important event of this year's Chicago 
> Film Festival,  
> > Akran is so good, so inventive, so radically original, 
> that it may  
> > even be flatly rejected by the audience... It is 
> beyond our previous  
> > experience.'' (Roger Ebert) (?!) 
> > 
> > Hope to see you there, 
> > 
> > Mark Toscano 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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