At Home With The Majoun Traveler, excerpt of a film by Flame Schon from Steve Zehentner on Vimeo.
In 2008, Flame Schon came to New York to visit her old friend Ira Cohen, a fellow traveler and collaborator. Ira Cohen, the great poet, photographer, filmmaker & publisher, who called himself "the conscience of Planet Earth", was back at "home" after recently being released from a long and difficult hospital stay.
"...something told me to just shoot our visit, his reading poems, our sitting around and talking...with no thought of making a coherent piece. Just the awareness that these moments together were beautiful and it was worthwhile to capture them. We got together 3 times in his apartment, and so there is different feeling and clothes etc., but that didn't seem to be a drawback when I finally decided that I could put something together that would say simply here is my visit to Ira Cohen, end of September to the beginning October 2008. Here he is now (then), not totally as remembered by so many but still and essentially Ira. Uniquely Ira." - Flame Schon
No comments:
Post a Comment