About me : a musical. S-8 Stones footage from Exile on Main St. Keep busy.
Notes:
Participants in About me, a musical: Lynn Reyner, Robert Schlee, Bill Hart, Jaime deCarlo Lotts, [Sheila] Pavlo, Vera Cochran, Sidney Kaplan (actors) ; Benares Temple Musicians, Tompkins Square Musicians, Hugh Romney (hog farmer), Jacques Monory (painter), Rosa & Hermann Frank (the director's parents), Leslie (girl singer), June (violinist), Frances Bull (chanteuse), Allen Ginsberg & Peter Orlovsky (poets), Hope Freaks (of Alloy, New Mexico), Inmates (of the State Prison in Ellis, Texas). Participants in S-8 Stones footage from Exile on Main St.: The Rolling Stones (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman). Cast for Keep busy: David Warrilow, William Raymond, Joanne Akalaitis, June & Linda, Helen Tworkov, Aline Mayer, Joan Jonas, Roberta Neiman, Richard Serra, Jim Strahs, Anton & Rudy. Each disc is two-sided, containing identical content in both NTSC and PAL formats.
Contents:
About me : a musical (1971, 29 min., b&w) / picture, Daniel Seymour ; a film by Robert Frank -- [S-8 Stones footage from Exile on Main St.] (1971, 8 min., b&w) / [filmed and edited by Robert Frank] -- Keep busy (1975, 44 min., b&w) / [filmmakers], Rudy Wurlitzer, Robert Frank ; written by Rudy Wurlitzer ; photographed by Robert Frank ; sound by Charles Dean ; narrator, John Dan MacPherson ; violin, Donald A. MacEachern.
Summary:
About me, a musical: An autobiographical film by filmmaker Robert Frank that poses questions concerning artistic expression and the function of memory. S-8 Stones footage from Exile on Main St.: Minimally-edited footage of British rock band the Rolling Stones, recorded during the making of their 1972 double-album "Exile on Main Street". Keep busy: An improvised fictional film about a group of people living on an isolated island off the coast of Nova Scotia.
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