Harry Smith PDX travels north! When film scholar Kaveh Askari premiered his new experimental doc, Harry Smith of the Guide: Field Recordings and a Location, at the Harry Smith Free For All in Portland, Oregon Cartoon Institute promised to return the favor. Working through Western Washington University’s Film Studies department, Kaveh Askari and Matthew Holtmeier have … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: September 2013
Harry Smith Goes To A Wedding
Lionel and Joanna Ziprin One of the most mysterious periods of Harry Smith’s life, for people trying to piece his chronology together, is the period of time he was living in New York, after finishing the Anthology (1952) and before starting Heaven And Earth Magic (1957). During this period he worked for a greeting card … Continue reading