Sesión 5: Black Liberation + Don Peyote + Pull My Daisy

The Group’s lone black director, Edward Bland, unleashed The Cry of Jazz (1959); maybe there is some significance to the fact that it took eight years till a comparable cluster appeared with the releases of Shirley Clarke’s Portrait of Jason and Édouard de Laurot’s Black Liberation – The Group’s Last Hooray? Harold Humes’ lone attempt at making a film, Don Peyote (~1960), resulted in little more than a pile of almost never-screened fragments – but what fragments!… Pull My Daisy, done in tandem by Alfred Leslie & Robert Frank and released in some theatres together with Shadows, became the Beat era piece of film – an icon of this brief moment in time. OLAF MÖLLER

Con la colaboración de Swedish Film Institute, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston