A Season of Footage and Films Part 9. Four Times Bob.
Feb. 19, 2011 - Feb. 20, 2011
7:00 pm onwards
CAMP roof
Four Times Bob
A cut of four films on Bob Dylan.
100 mins.
In this screening, Sanjay Bhangar produces a cut from four films on Bob Dylan, including:
1> Don't Look Back
( D.A. Pennebaker, 1967, 96 mins) a landmark; as a film and as a
document of rock history. Directed by Pennebaker, one of the
pioneers of direct cinema, the film starts with one of the first-of-its
kind "music videos", and proceeds to document everything from intimate
late-night moments to live performances in Dylan's 1965 tour of
England.
2> Eat The Document ( Bob Dylan,1972, 54 mins) : In 1966,
Pennebaker once again accompanied Dylan on his tour of the UK - this
time Dylan had 'gone electric', with The Hawks backing him through the
second half of his performance. After this tour, Dylan would not allow
Pennebaker to complete the film. Eventually, Dylan and Howard Alk spent
some time editing what became "Eat the Document", a widely bootlegged
piece of video material.
3> No Direction Home ( Martin Scorsese, 2005, 208 mins) :
This film is a series of interviews with Dylan himself, Joan Baez and
others. The film inter-cuts the interviews with pieces of footage taken
from earlier films, piecing together Dylan's life from his arrival in
New York City in '61 up until his motorcycle accident in '66.
4> I'm Not There ( Todd Haynes, 2007, 135 mins) : This film
has six characters enacting different 'ghosts' of Bob Dylan. The movie
contains many, sometimes surreal, re-enactments of scenes from archival
footage, mostly from the above films.
"here lies bob dylan
murdered
from behind
by trembling flesh
who after being refused by Lazarus,
jumped on him
for solitude
but was amazed to discover
that he was already
a streetcar &
that was exactly the end
of bob dylan
he now lies in Mrs. Actually's
beauty parlor
God rest his soul
& his rudeness
two brothers
& a naked mama's boy
who looks like Jesus Christ
can now share the remains
of his sickness
& his phone numbers
there is no strength
to give away -
everybody now
can just have it back
here lies bob dylan
demolished by Vienna politeness-
which will now claim to have invented him
the cool people can
now write Fugues about him
& Cupid can now kick over his kerosene lamp
boy dylan-killed by a discarded Oedipus
who turned
around
to investigate a ghost
& discovered that
the ghost too
was more than one person."
- Bob Dylan, Tarantula, 1965-66
