From: Mary Jordan (email suppressed)
Date: Sun Jan 22 2006 - 06:57:04 PST
> No it was not. I was showing excerpts.
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> mj
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> Granted, I'm no Jack Smith fan...
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> But weren't you already showing the film last month. I saw printed invitations
> and even got 'open bar' invitations for your film from three different people.
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> Was this the same film?
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> -----Original Message-----
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> From: Experimental Film Discussion List [mailto:email suppressed
> <mailto:email suppressed> ] On Behalf Of Mary Jordan
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> Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 4:53 PM
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> To: email suppressed
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> Subject: PLEA for ACTION!!!-----Jack Smith held hostage!
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?!!
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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!!!
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> Mary Jordan-Director
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> "Critics are handmaidens of the lobster" Jack Smith
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> Two Work-in-progress screenings at the IFFR. I will
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> appreciate anyone who can stop by to show their support.
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> "DRESS REHEARSAL: Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis"
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> Rotterdam International Film Festival Screen Dates
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> Tuesday Jan. 31st--- First screening of the work-in-progress Thursday Feb. 2nd
> --2:45 pm screening public Saturday Feb. 4th --SCREENING CANCELLED (!!!)
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> PS - the withdrawal letter to IFFR was posted at TonguePress.com
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> __________________________________________________________________
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> For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.
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Mary Jordan
917-215-6417
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
Coming soon.......
"Capitalism is when you must kill to earn a living" Jack Smith
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For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.