Re: Delany reading on YouTube

Thank you very much for this.  Living in Central America, my
opportunities for seeing my favorite writers or hearing them talk are
scarce.  Thumbs up!

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Eric Solstein <[email protected]> wrote:
> To all the members of the Delany list serve:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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