First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in style and sensibility but united by their opposition to the Vietnam War. Part of the protest festival Week of the Angry Arts, the epic compilation film...
"The fun-and the only fun-is John Hawkins' FLOWERPOT, a simple, frisky romp involving a cavorting couple and fresh colorations." –Howard Thompson, The New York Times, 2/18/1972
Andy Warhol's Silver Flotations is a portrait of Warhol's famous installation of floating silver helium-filled balloons at the Leo Castelli Gallery in 1966. Willard Maas's lyrical "film poem" is the only visual document of this seminal exhibition.
Photography: Willard Maas and John Hawkins. "Looking down instead of around, while walking, finding the magic patterns in the pavements of a city."--John Hawkins
An attempt to reproduce some visual hallucinations while on a trip (a number of years ago), done in the major portion with clay animation. On the average, it took one hour to shoot one-half second's viewing time. I felt that clay was the best medium to demonstrate what one might see under the drug...
"By 1967, Menken had become interested in the work of Fluxus artist Robert Watts and made a short animation piece, Watts with EGGS, in which she animates his chrome-casted Box of Eggs. The film opens with lights reflected in the eggs (of course), then, through single framing, pixilates a man's hand...
Co-maker: Willard Maas. A Valentine card from Willard Maas to his wife, Marie Menken, utilizing both animation and live-action photography. A "catch me if you can" game between two real hearts. –J. H.
