Re: Delany reading on YouTube

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Wow!  That is really great.  Thanks for putting this valuable material out 
there.
Amy

Subject: [delany-list] Delany reading on YouTube


> To all the members of the Delany list serve:
>
> I have just uploaded my film, Atlantis and Other New York Tales, in
> its entirety, to my YouTube site.  It was filmed in 1999 and premiered
> at Anthology Film Archive in 2001, and followed by a small VHS release
> through Voyant Publishing.
>
> It is largely a reading, (at the Judson Church) with some brief
> interview segments sprinkled within for a bit of context and variety.
> The footage was all originally gathered for a larger history of SF,
> one that has not yet come to pass, so the thought was to use unused
> material and put some Delany "out there,"  after the original
> suggestion of Gil Roth over at Voyant.
>
> At the time I was working on this with Chip, I also had a client who
> was at my facility editing a short series of documentaries about
> writers - Fred Barney Taylor.  I introduced Chip to Fred, who
> subsequently and graciously asked my permission to create a film of
> his own about Chip, which I tendered without qualification, and so
> today we have the unquestionably more ambitious documentary,
> Polymath.  Despite Mr. Taylor's failure to acknowledge my pivotal role
> in the genesis of his film, this one is where it all started.
>
> While I have no doubt, most of you will enjoy Atlantis... you will
> also find at my site, two films about the deceased writer, and former
> Delany friend & co-author, Tom Disch.  One of these two works being
> his suicide note... in verse.  One might also find a more ornate
> venture into gender-bending fiction, in my experimental version of
> Frederik Pohl's Day Million.  Those unfamiliar with this brilliant
> senior writer and editor, might be interested to know he was the book
> editor who purchased an impossible property that went on to become one
> of SF's most surprising best-sellers - Dahlgren.  There is a bit more
> to be found there and other projects soon to arrive.
>
> The page is called, "Men of the Future," and the link is: 
> http://www.youtube.com/user/agentb27
>
> Enjoy, and feel free to comment, rate, refer, embed and subscribe.
>
> -Eric Solstein
> For current work, archives & materials of interest, at YouTube:
> http://www.youtube.com/user/agentb27
>
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>
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