Essential Cinema

An improvisational experimental pilgrimage through the film works of American artists Harry Smith and Wallace Berman.

The quartet will provide the voice for the motion images of important artistic figures of the 20th century American cultural history. Smith and Berman’s modern interdisciplinary approach marked the world of “beat generation” and bebop, leaving the opus that entered the both spheres with great engagement.

• Ikue Mori, electronics
• John Zorn, electronics, saxophone
• Trevor Dunn, bass
• Kenny Wollesen, drums

• Movies:
  Harry Smith, No. 16: Oz – The Tin Woodman’s Dream
  Harry Smith, No. 1: A Strange Dream
  Harry Smith, No. 2: Message From the Sun
  Harry Smith, No. 3: Interwoven
  Harry Smith, OZ outtakes
  Harry Smith, No. 10: Mirror Animations
  Wallace Berman, Aleph