Page Two -film festival- Night of the winners? THE MICHI An end t By BRUCE HENSTELL The third night of tho Ann Arbor Film Festival may well turn out to be the night of the winners. It was a night of easy and occassionally serious view- ing, even if it lagged in parts. Several of the films were montages of images, far from a new or even necessarily in- teresting technique. But in sev- eral cases the juxtaposition called attention to the obivous intelligence of the filmmaker. Tom Palazzolo, whose The Bride Stripped Bare - a curious and often funny vision of Mayor Daley encountering Art in Chi- cago'p city center which was shown the first night of the fes- tival, returned with 0. By rights, with his use of images as mun- dane as a marching band and a circus, the film shouldn't have worked. But in the midst of the rapid fantasy of images came a dold feeling of reality - real- ity presented in picturing a sense of grotesque. Section 11 used the same kind of imgary but presented a dis- jointedness that riveted the eye to a series of appearing and, then dissolving forms. Here again the viewer was caught in an almost icy intelligence. Moonblock which used the pure forms of white and black was overly long but again it was obviously intelligent. Less interesting was a short film about the MC-5. It was several different performances of the group strung together and shot in fast motion. One is tempted to say that the film- maker sure put one over on them in picturing a pure silly- ness (as opposed to a creative absurdity). But that probably wasn't the case. One of the more amusing films was Eight. In it a kindly man drivesand walks about observ- ing children. At the point we suspect pederasty he is attack- ed by some junior Green Berets. And far from what they expect- ed in their "play," he is actually shot, and apparently dies slumped over the horn of his car. The children stare, throw their guns to the ground and run like hell. Whereupon o u r hero arises, makes a mark in a little book and drives away, a No War Toys sticker prominent- ly displayed on his car. Kenneth Valentine, whose ex- cellent In This Room was shown Wednesday night, was less suc- cessful with Haiku for Hamlet which lacked the inner coher- ance of the earlier film. Holly- wood, Here I Am by another lo- cal filmmaker, Bill Clark, suf- fered from the one great sins of filmmaking - inability to make enough cuts. It was funny, but its central strand of humor was almost destroyed by length and over-extension of the joke: a projectionist both dreaming of and making movies. James Broughton's The Bed. was one of the most delightful films at last year's festival and won several awards both here and elsewhere. But his entry this year, Nuptiae lacked both the wit and grace of The Bed. It became so watery that it cast doubt on validity of \Brough- ton's basic vision. Nuptiae was about the eternality and beau- ity of marriage while The Bed was about the eternality and beauty of sex. But where The Bed possessed a fine sense of humor to carry it over its pain- fully simple point, Nuptiae was just simple. And the simple, in this case, is not necessarily the beautiful. By STEVE KOPPMAN, More than 1500 students overflowed the Union Ballroom last night to hear Joan Baez and David Harris talk about a new kind of society. Drawn by the reputation of the widely-acclaimed folk sing- er and social crusader, the crowd was urged to work to bring the day when 'the words 'oppressor' and 'oppressed' will disappear from the earth." "You and I are going to have a revolution," Miss Baez said, "but I don't mean the tradi- tional type of revolution. Re'vo- lution means change - real change of direction - not just someone new carrying the gun. "I don't think being violent is being revolutionary-I think being violent is being reaction- ary. Our revolution is going to be when you and I realize that every single, human being on the face of this earth is sacred." Miss Baez declared that it is our complicity which perpetu- ates the gigantic military estab- lishment and the attitude of nationalism, w h i c h together make war inevitable. "The military is an enormous giant with a stranglehold on the world. We keep this giant alive. We keep militarism alive with our II-S's-your II-S 3s some- one else's M-15 " she said, "Our schools teach national- ism-that's the doctrine that a piece of property is worth more than a human life. "I don't think," she continued, "that you can learn to be a good American, a good Chinese, .or a good Peruvian, and still be a human being with any idea of brotherhood." letters To the Editor: When I read the review by Kirk Hampton on Donald Hall's reading I was reminded of a very relevant quotation from Randall Jarrell: "Poetry is not unread because it is obscure. It is obscure because it is unread." The reviewer has no business ignorantly, condescendingly condemning Hall's work. He does not seem to understand that contemporary poets have realized, that intellec- tual abstraction is only meaningful and evocative insofar as it refers to meaningful specifics of experience. That is why poets like Hall and Roethke have been so committed to the image apart from such commentary-poetry is the attempt to get as close to the world as possible, not to construct the intellectual generaliza- tions that can be drawn from that world. The reviewer also does not seem-to understand that our inner world is just as real and important as the outer (though even that simplistic division is somewhat schizophrenic). Fantasy is only another, just as vivid, reality. The reviewer seems to suffer from the American concept of the tangible, the reasoned, as the truly important. It is the inner world of loves and fears with which poetry is concerned.' The best poets are those who enter territories, depths which most people cannot reach. If Hall or Rilke are difficult it is not for obscurity; it is because they have attained a clarity, an in-sight most. people do not have. They move into the places that lie too deep for intellectualization. But there is also no question but that, to many sensitive and intellectual people who read contem- porary poetry, Hall's poems are very moving and comprehensible. But poetry is in the deep experience, not the intellectual con- nections and platitudes. Lawrence Russ r 11 IS DAILY CLASSIFIEDS. BRING QUICK RESULTK PETITION FOR CINEMA, II BOARD 3020 Washtenaw, Ph. 434-1782 Between Ypsilanti & Ann Arbor Progro THE 0 w" 'I in II if E TOUGHEST MAN IN THE WEST- GOES EAST, And Then * -a am Information 2-6264 C 1M NOW SHOWING SHOWS AT: 1 :O-3:00 5:00-7:00-9:05 U GAN DAILY Friday, March 14, 1969 lectures o1 ppressionmBaez LITTLE CLUB In a biting attack on the "When it ceases to benefit schools, Miss Baez, called our men's lives, it should no longer educational system "a castration be obeyed."fthe Six of Spad s process which takes away our Replying to a student who f 0 Uring e Xof p des dreams, and tells us what we questioned how great corpora- can't do. tions could be divested of their "The saddest thing I've seen power without violence, Harris in our educational system is that replied, "We provide the power 98 per cent of the people there for these institutions. The real are there because they're scared power is not in -giving orders, to be anywhere else or they but in refusing to accept orders. don't think they can do any- "The power of General Mo- thing else. tors will end when the workers "But the river of life," she show up and tell the bosses ofFriday, said, "is flowing somewhere out.. GM they're fired,'' he said. side the classroom. I don't think "The day isn't near yet when9-2P . you can just look through that the words 'oppressor' and 'op- river and find your own private pressed' will disappear, but it puddle, because that river of life only gets closer with our work. is filled with the broken arms, And if that day comes, we'll broken legs and broken heads of have to push it up with our EE other huiman beings. We're go.. backs." ing to have to do something Harris and Miss Baez are on about it." a four day tour in Michigan. Her husband, David Harris,' founder of Resistance and for- mer student body president of with the Stanford, spoke with Miss Baez.I "Hour of the Wolf" "Man gets what he does-not what he talks about. You and I must stand up and refuse to be DOOR PRIZE a butcher of your brothers around the world. We live in a society that's made human life Each Dance Ticket entitles you dispensable," he said.aU to 33/% discount off list price Harris expects to begin a of any record purchase made three-year prison term this June after March 14, 1969 at for refusing induction.-9 Referring particularly to draft resistance, Harris declared that Sylvar a Solid State DATE: March 14, 1969-Friday "the law is not sacred-it does STEREO PHONOGRAPH TIME; 9-1 not exist unto itself. It is a tool, with GARRARD Changer PLACE: Newman Center, RECORD STORES It derives its legitimacy from.331 Th the benefit it brings to the lives You don't have to be ompson 300 S. STATE of men. present to win ADMISSION: $1.50 1235 S. 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