LEADER 00000ngmaa2200397Ka 4500 001 724120702 003 OCoLC 005 20110516043621.0 007 mr ca||dmnarauuac|||||| 008 110516s1972 sz 007 mlger d 035 (PFA-FILM)19591 040 CUY|beng|cCUY 245 00 [Après documenta V]|h[motion picture] /|cfilm by Michel de Rivaz. 246 3 Après documenta 5 257 Switzerland. 260 Switzerland :|b[s.n.],|c1972. 300 1 reel of 1 (7 min., 44 sec. @ 16 fps) :|bsi., col. ;|c16 mm.|3estar print. 506 Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. Access by appt. only.|5CBPF. 506 PFA 1604-01-15764. Restricted: For BAM/PFA exhibition only. 506 PFA 1604-121-14233. Restricted: Not for research use. There is a video copy with BAM. 520 "James Lee Byars found his 'perfect audience' on a sunny summer afternoon in 1972 on the ground beneath the Zytglogge, a fifteenth-century clock tower in Bern, Switzerland. At the invitation of Swiss curator Harald Szeemann, Byars had performed Calling German Names at Documenta 5 in Kassel, Germany, earlier that summer. Szeemann, the young director of Documenta, revolutionized the event by inviting artists to present not just paintings and sculptures, but also performances and 'happenings.' Byars repeated his performance in Bern, where the action was captured on film by local filmmaker Michel de Rivaz. Recently digitally remastered, the film Après Documenta 5 is presented for the first time in an American museum in the exhibition The Perfect Audience. The seven-minute film opens with Byars in the apex of the Fridericianum, on the Documenta exhibition grounds, and then moves to Bern. With dizzying camera moves, Byars appears atop the clock tower, shrouded in red, calling German names through a golden megaphone to a perplexed crowd on the ground below. Later we see Byars exiting the house where Albert Einstein lived between 1903 and 1905 as he developed the Special Theory of Relativity; at the site, Byars dedicated his performance to the legendary scientist. The film concludes with art-world types, including the artist, Szeemann, and others, sipping aperitifs and soaking in the sun in an outdoor cafe. Byars had a way of bringing a bourgeois air to radical art, redefining the concept of hot fun in the summertime"-- Stephanie Cannizzo, Berkeley Art Museum. 541 0 PFA 1604-121-15764. Cineric 541 0 PFA 1604-121-14233. D0121 590 PFA 1604-121-15764. |aApproved release print from preservation 16mm interneg blowup from standard 8mm original reversal pos. |a1 reel of 1 (7 min. @ 16 fps) : |bsi., col. ;|c16 mm.|3polyester print. 590 PFA 1604-121-14233. |aCOPY-SPECIFC DESCRIPTION: 1 reel of 1 (7 min. @ 16 fps) : si., col. ; 16 mm. estar print. |aExcellent condition 650 0 Performance art. 651 0 Bern (Switzerland) 655 7 Shorts.|2mim 655 7 Personal/independent works.|2mim 690 Swiss films. 700 1 Rivaz, Michel de,|d1920-|edirection. 700 1 Byars, James Lee,|eperformer. 941 PFA 1604-121-15764. originally in 12/18/2007 from Cineric 941 0 PFA 1604-121-14233. D0121 deposit of frame-for-frame answer print made a Cineric from new interneg (blow-up from regular 8 m.) 2007/10/25 945 LW title varies: [Aprѣs documenta V] 946 PFA 1604-121-14233. INV record created 2010/05/19 by js; MIN record created 2011/05/16 by sw. 948 PFA 1604-121-14233. Restricted: Not for research use. There is a video copy with BAM. 956 20131211 |bpfmcq|cMR 956 pfsw 956 20140224|bPFA migration/merge load 957 OCLC xref loaded 20140309 994 C0|bCUY