Jim Krell

Filmed in 1983 in New York at Pier 34, this film takes place at an abandoned storehouse which was left at the mercy of the elements and open to anonymous homosexual encounters and to having its walls covered with gigantic frescos by underground artists. This place breathed transgression, desire, danger.

Sweeten offering to the god/ everyone thought i was beauty/ but it was the result of mirror/ bread/ alargegreeb spotlite. –J. K.

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For his film Finally A Lamb, completed in 1976, Krell documented a performance piece by the German artist Hermann Nitsch of the Orgies/Mysteries Theater, which took place at Douglass College in the early 1970s, in which a dead sheep’s carcass was disemboweled in front of a stunned audience.

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A young boy auditions for a position in a choir academy; he is turned down. He returns home with his mother and father where the father is met with the news that his father has just died, and he must leave immediately for the funeral. Upon his arrival at his parents' home, he finds he is too late for the funeral. Later that evening, over coffee, he tries to reconcile himself with his sense of loss in a brief talk with his mother. This narrative framework serves as the jumping-off point for numerous digressions and reminiscences utilizing both "found" and originally photographed imagery.

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Ilike to go to oregon hills/ Iroll down with my arms because/ Iwant to go slower/ Iam scared. –J. K.

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For yet another film, All Area (1978), Krell shot the shadow of a curtain on the floor of his New York loft for 30 minutes with ancient black and white Portapack ½” video equipment, then remastered the material on negative film stock with a professional film chain to achieve astonishing results in contrast, frame sizing, and the arbitrary duration of this reductive image.

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GHOST DANCE LOTS OF FLARES THE BODY OF A WOMAN identified as lies under a blanket on fogs of san fran. small bits – J. K.

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Monument of the bay easter/ gail sits in the crease for two days/ refusing drink or food/ angels arrive and reveal she is a glorious bum/ ALTHOUGH IT WAS L(1965)arry –J. K.