[Frameworks] Peter Mays R.I.P.

[Adam Hyman]

Greetings.  Los Angeles based filmmaker, painter, projectionist, and
filmgoer Peter Mays passed away last night.  Peter was one of the longest
members of the experimental film community in LA, going back to when he
started a film society in the UCLA Art Department in 1962 to screen
underground films that he had read about.  He made multiple film & video
works over the years, was a founding member of the  of the Single Wing
Turquoise Bird Light Show and the one continuing member in all of its
iterations, and also served as projectionist at the Fox Venice and at CAA to
make ends meet.  In later years, he was often painting at home in Santa
Monica.

Filmforum had a screening with him in 2010, and showed his films at
different time through the years, and as part of Alternative Projections.
His most well-known work, ³Death of the Gorilla² is really wonderful, and
was also featured on the cover of the book Art Cinema, by Paul Young, for
Taschen Press.  We¹ll be doing two screenings this month honoring him, shows
that were already being planned, and were hoping that he might have been in
condition to attend.  Although that didn¹t happen, I hope that you all will
be able to come to at least one, and that those of you who knew him might
say a few words.  Here¹s more on him at Alternative Projections, and an oral
history.
https://www.alternativeprojections.com/people/peter-mays/
https://www.alternativeprojections.com/oral-histories/peter-mays/

And his Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/petermays22
Two of his films have been restored by Mark Toscano at the Academy Film
Archive, Death of the Gorilla and The Star-Curtain Tantra.  Those will be
part of the first of two screenings we will have at Filmforum honoring Peter
Mays, on March 17 and 31, 2019.

We¹ll miss him.

Very truly yours,

Adam

-- 
Adam Hyman
Los Angeles Filmforum
adam at lafilmforum.org
http://www.lafilmforum.org





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