The One and Only!
Counter culture jammer and Oncle to us all!
Messy chaotic archivist filmmaker cinematic outsider alchemist Harry Smith shuffled around with folk music animations film numbering systems anthropology ethnographies drugs magic theosophia jazz and more.
As film students we loved him and when I had to deal with the cinematography class I went straight for a B&W noir setting in which his picture taken by Allen Ginsberg was the red herring for the thriller, set in a former 90s NYC club…