Harry Smith / New York / Seattle

Harry Smith, Doris Chase & Shirley Clarke: Chelsea Hotel Penthouse Avant Garde

Underground filmmaker Shirley Clarke was one of Harry Smith’s neighbors in Chelsea Hotel. From Dee Dee Halleck’s eulogy to Shirley Clarke: In the early seventies I somehow found my way up to her workshop space in the penthouse of the Chelsea Hotel. Shirley lived and worked there making live and taped video performance, installation and documentation … Continue reading

Portland / Seattle

Lori Goldston Talks Harry Smith

“Classically trained and rigorously de-trained, possessor of a restless, semi-feral spirit, Lori Goldston is a cellist, composer, improvisor, producer, writer and teacher based in Seattle.” On March 17, 2014, one time Nirvana cellist Lori Goldston comes to the Hollywood Theatre in Portland to celebrate Mississippi Records re-release of Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music. … Continue reading

Seattle

Harry Comes Home To Seattle w/Lori Goldston: Heaven & Earth Magic @ SIFF Cinema, March 18, 2014

Oregon Cartoon Institute brings Harry Smith home to Seattle in time to welcome the 2014 Society of Cinema and Media Studies conference, which opens Wednesday March 19 and runs through Sunday March 23. Cellist Lori Goldston will provide live accompaniment for OCI’s multiple projector, expanded cinema version of Heaven & Earth Magic. The screening will … Continue reading