2005

The Ganzfeld 4
http://www.theganzfeld.com

Stringing Along: Harry Smith String Figures
John Cohen interviews Harry Smith, Sing Out! 1968

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Beat Scene
http://www.beatscene.net/



February 13, - May 22, 2005
Visual Music show @ MOCA
Visual Music surveyed the rich and resonant relationship between abstraction, color, and sound over the past century. Harry Smith’s Film #3 was projected along with Len Lye, Viking Eggeling, Oskar Fischinger and others.
Link: http://www.moca-la.org/museum/exhibitiondetail.php?&id=350


February – June 2005
Brian Graham: Absurdity is King
Casa Fernando Pessoa, Lisbon, Portugal
The Casa Fernando Pessoa exhibits the work of photographer Brian Graham. “Graham’s photographs document the twilight of the “Beats,” or at least of those “Beats” who conducted their earthly existences on the Lower East Side of New York City in the 1980s and ‘90s.” So writes Luc Sante in his introduction to the catalogue that includes several photos of Harry Smith.
http://www.casafernandopessoa.com/menu_en.htm


February 24 – 27, 2005
Harry Smith: music film art life
Cinema deBalie and Paradiso Theatre present a “Grand Weekend” of Smithiana. Featuring films, lectures and a concert with the Handsome Family, Meindert Talma & the Negroes, David Eugene Edwards and Born Heller:
http://www.debalie.nl/artikel.jsp;jsessionid=A0FBA4CF0370389D79F93D94059CA5D1?podiumid=cinema&articleid=27006