Joel Klaff at Historical Society
Tom Palazzolo documents Joel Klaff’s (aka Guy Taylor) performance art piece, “Guy Taylor’s Fashion Fables”, during a Chicago Historical Society Function.
Tom Palazzolo documents Joel Klaff’s (aka Guy Taylor) performance art piece, “Guy Taylor’s Fashion Fables”, during a Chicago Historical Society Function.
Footage of the Chicago Folk and Roots Festival at Welles Park. Includes conversations with attendees and musicians, as well as the entire set of a band’s performance.
Author and documentary filmmaker Mike Gray speaks at a public forum in Bloomington Indiana entitled “The Hidden Casualties of the War on Drugs,” recorded on a program called “In Your Interest” on WIPX Channel 63, Trafalgar, IN. He touches upon topics brought up in his book “Drug Crazy.”
Video recording of The Artaud Project at Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago, January 25, 1980. The performance combined a live performance with an actor playing Antonin Artaud with several monitors displaying other footage. Many readings of Artaud’s work are incorporated.
The mothers of the heroes and martyrs of Estelí talk about their fallen family members, August, 1984. Experimental video made with Sandin Image Processor. / Las madres de héroes y mártires de Estelí hablan de la familia caida, agosto 1984. Estelí heróico, Nicaragua libre.
Un documental en cuatro “movimientos.” Nicaragua, Septiembre, 1984. Los campesinos en un cafetal, El Callao, ofrecen una visión intima y política de la vida rural. LA HISTORIA DE REYNA FLORES (14 min.); ENFRENTANDO ESCASECES (14 min.); LA NATURALEZA Y LA HISTORIA (25 min.); AGUA PURA (6 min.).
In September 1984, director Julia Lesage visited a coffee plantation with Nicaraguan camerawomen, Amina Luna and Miriam Carrero, and organizers from the ATC, the Nicaraguan salaried farm workers’ union. El Crucero gives an in-depth picture of that farm. The tape is organized in four “movements,” each in a different documentary style, to capture different aspects of life and politics on that farm. The use of different documentary styles provokes a reflection on how the US media convey information about other countries and cultures.
Troubadours presents a musical performance by the Nicaraguan folk singing group, Camayoc, which means “messenger” in Nahuatl, the language of ancient indigenous people in Central America. Groupo Camayoc taped this performance with Julia Lesage and Chuck Kleinhans outdoors in Estelí, Nicaragua, in September 1987. They play both their own songs and those of Carlos Mejía Godoy and Pablo Milanés.