1974.11.15 11th Annual Avant Garde Festival - Shea Stadium, NYC
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As with the Read Street Festival of 1970, I attended this without being a participant. I went with my girlfriend of the time, Pat Brown. She had a Volkswagon bug so we drove there in that. Given that I was only 21 at the time & Pat was probably 20 I'm surprised that we were both so interested that we did the drive from Baltimore to New York City, spent the day there, & drove back. It was a fantastic experience. Cellist Charlotte Morman organized these festivals & it's amazing to me that she could access such spaces as Shea Stadium. John Cage had the scoreboard with something like "Happy New Ears" written on it. Artist Les Levine dismissed these festivals as something like 'vacations' but I found them absolutely marvelous (for that matter, I have nothing against vacations). It was the 1st time I got to see multiple projections - something that became important in my own work as a filmmaker when I started less than a year later. Perhaps most importantly for me, it was where I 1st encountered the work of Franz Kamin, someone who I later became friends with & who I made a long documentary about after he & his long-term friend James Mansback "Sarmad" Brody died in a car crash in 2010.
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