All videos by CLAIRE BURCH
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James Baldwin Anthology Widescreen / Color / Sound / 75 min ISBN 1-889059-30-7 / $24.95 NEW DIGITALLY REMASTERED! From Original 70's Footage The James Baldwin Anthology is a new seventy five minute DVD consisting of internationally known writer James Baldwin's historic speech at UC Berkeley in 1979, his answers in a dialog with Malcom X in the 60's, and series of original mixed media images done by Claire Burch as a memorial after his death in 1987. Following this material is an additional Director's Cut of half an hour which contains an interview with the late Professor Erskine Peters who was host to Jimmy at this time, and film of a session at Cody's bookstore in Berkeley where biographer David Leeming is reading from his Alfred Knopf biography of Jimmy and describing his sad and funny efforts to bring a close friend and painter Beauford Delaney from a psychiatric unit in France to Turkey where Jimmy was living at the time. Included in the DVD are unforgettable images of America's racial unrest, other images of Baldwin himself, photos of many of the memorial mixed media images of Baldwin, and a series of sarcastic variations of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, as ordered by Jimmy in a dream shortly after his death. The images are part of an exhibit of images and quotations available to museums and libraries on request from Regent Press Berkeley. Some can be seen on the website www.claireburch.com Sponsored by Art and Education Media Inc. Berkeley This material, collected into a book Remembering James Baldwin, (memoirs by well know writers) and David Leeming's touching recollection of Jimmy's last weeks, will be available shortly. |
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The Bandbox Color / Sound / 80 minutes ISBN 1-58790-039-4 UNAVAILABLE Behind the Bandbox is a raw controversial film that spans ten years in the lives of three Berkeley street survivors, Chelsea, Cobra, and the Infamous Bones. This chilling record shows three people you will never forget. The film takes a fierce look at childhood molestation, includes never before revealed information about the Zodiac Killer, and secrets of a well known Bay Area family. It also shows the long term problems of a talented young street artist who has frequent seizures, had twenty-seven surgeries for a childhood brain tumor and is still facing constant police harassment for sleeping outside, since his disability check (just cut off) was not enough to afford both food and shelter. Follow heart wrenching street moments as the camera notes the amazing lives of three against the world. Long term activist Chelsea and her son Cobra have sold their drawings on the streets of Berkeley, often for spare change to eat, since he was eleven, right after his father was the first person to be killed on BART. Their unflinching honesty and disingenuous complete disregard of camera, show street life at its most intense. Provocative, outspoken, wild, this film of Chelsea, Cobra, and Bones, captures the vitality of three startling survivors of tragedy. We watch as they confront each obstacle life throws them, often with wit, four letter words, bravery and grace. Here is an in depth look at these rebels who struggle with being star shaped in a square holed world. These three, Chelsea, Cobra, and Bones, have personalities like the gears of a machine that doesn’t always work. Friends finding their way out of darkness, a gritty view of life. And as R. Crumb put it, admiringly, “Who is that woman?” |
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Ghost Of Haight Ashbury Meets Timothy Leary Color / Sound 120 minutes ISBN 1-889059-25-0 / $24.95 Claire Burch writes: In 1997 and 1998 I was able to film Dr. Leary whenever he was in the San Francisco area. This material began to assume assorted forms and eventually became the basis for the pieces on this tape. Like his own thinking, they are not all rooted in “straight reality”. Both his words and images are collaged against psychedelic overlays that preoccupied his vision until the end. Photo courtesy of Ronin Publishing. |
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of the SF Oracle Meets Timothy Leary Color / Sound / 45 minutes ISBN 0-916147-75-4 / $24.95 Partly surreal documentation of a book-signing by Timothy Leary at Cody’s Bookstore in Berkeley. The book is Chaos and Cyberculture (Ronin Publishing, Berkeley, 1994). The “Ghost” consists of images from the Facsimile Edition of the old Haight Ashbury San Francisco Oracle, published by Regent Press. |
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Save Jack Kerouac’s Daughter Color / Sound / 58 minutes ISBN 0-916147-90-8 / $24.95 Archival documentation of a benefit to save Jan Kerouac, daughter of Jack, by raising money to get her a kidney transplant. Ken Kesey, Paul Krassner, Allen Cohen, editor of the old Oracle, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, Tony Seldin and others present tributes to Jack Kerouac. Poet Gerald Nicosia, who organized the concert, describes the controversy concerning a “conspiracy” involving the will of the author of On the Road. |
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Oracle
Rising The Recreation of the Haight Ashbury Underground Newspaper Color / Sound / 58 minutes ISBN 0-916147-28-2 / $24.95 Oracle Rising is of historical interest to libraries, universities and collectors worldwide. It chronicles through music, psychedelic images and narration, the unforgettable phenomenon of Haight Ashbury in the 60’s. The film contains images of Oracle pages superimposed on historical events, plus footage of the famous Human Be In. It is filled with exciting archival footage of the “Summer of Love.” This unusual film celebrates another creative achievement, the publishing by Regent Press of The Oracle Facsimile Edition. |
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People’s
Park of Berkeley: Then and Now Color / Sound / 58 minutes ISBN 0-916147-35-5 / $24.95 A kaleidoscope of past and present sociology concerning the origin of the Free Speech Movement in America. Contains music performed at the controversial park and a running commentary by historian Michael Rossman. |
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Remembering
the Summer of Love and Other Songs Color / Sound / 30 minutes ISBN 0-916147-49-5 / $24.95 A musical tribute to Bill Graham. Also includes several songs from her musical play, It’s a Blue to be Called Crazy when Crazy’s All There Is. |
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