From: owen (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Jan 21 2006 - 14:55:30 PST
Mary,
I don't get it, are you showing the film or not? Can't you show the
film with the low res images until you get this worked out?
owen
On Jan 21, 2006, at 4:52 PM, Mary Jordan wrote:
> My premiere of JACK SMITH & THE DESTRUCTION OF ATLANTIS was pulled
> from the
> Rotterdam Film Festival. It can't be finished because the Plaster
> Foundation are withholding needed elements.
>
> Thank you to everyone who's supported me and contributed to this
> film. I am
> determined to finish it!! But I can not until I select and receive
> 40 photo
> negatives by Jack Smith that were paid for and licensed from the
> Plaster
> Foundation back in 2002.
>
> Jim Hoberman and Penny Arcade are gate-keeping! Jim has some of the
> photos
> in his Tribeca storage locker and Penny others in her lower east side
> apartment. These are photographs that they have no right to title
> for but
> still are keeping them under lock and key. For what purpose?!!
>
> Jim and Penny's position is that I've been given "unprecedented
> access" to
> Jack's photographs and claim no further obligation to me or my film.
>
> Their unprecedented contributions would have me featuring (in my high
> definition finish) NONE of the Jack Smith photo-images I've chosen to
> feature. And LOW RESOLUTION transparency scans and scans of scratched
> CONTACT SHEETS of the images I have been allowed to see. This does
> not sound
> like a contribution that befits the undying contributors to Jack
> Smith's
> legacy Jim and Penny make themselves to be.
>
> Please take action to urge Jim Hoberman and Penny Arcade to act in
> the best
> interest of Jack Smith's art and release these and other needed
> materials to
> my film as promised. They have no legal right to possess these
> images or
> Jack's archives, but still are interfering. Minimally they should
> immediately release them to a third party for safekeeping and
> monitored
> access to fulfill their obligations to my film and Jack Smith fans
> at large.
> Jack Smith's sister and family (who legally own the works) are 100%
> supportive of the film, and offered complete open access to Jack's
> archive.
> But Hoberman and Arcade are blocking this.
>
> Please if you have interest in Jack Smith, do not stand by
> idly...ask your
> own questions and encourage that jack's art be released from the
> crusty
> vaults for all to see!!!
>
> Mary Jordan-Director
> "Critics are handmaidens of the lobster" Jack Smith
>
>
> Two Work-in-progress screenings at the IFFR. I will
> appreciate anyone who can stop by to show their support.
>
>
> "DRESS REHEARSAL: Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis"
>
> Rotterdam International Film Festival Screen Dates
>
> Tuesday Jan. 31st--- First screening of the work-in-progress
> Thursday Feb. 2nd --2:45 pm screening public
> Saturday Feb. 4th --SCREENING CANCELLED (!!!)
>
>
> PS - the withdrawal letter to IFFR was posted at TonguePress.com
>
>
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