Title | [Après documenta V] |
Item type | Projected medium |
Alternate title | Après documenta 5 |
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Language | No linguistic content |
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Physical description | 1 film reel (7 min., 44 sec.) : silent, color, 16 fps ; 16 mm internegative |
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LEADER 00000ngmaa2200445Ki 4500
001 966434501
003 OCoLC
005 20161219014606.0
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008 161219s1972 sz 008 mlzxx d
040 CUY|beng|erda|cCUY
245 00 [Après documenta V] /|c[film by Michel de Rivaz].
246 1 Après documenta 5
257 Switzerland.
264 0 [Switzerland] :|b[James Lee Byars?],|c[1972].
300 1 film reel (7 min., 44 sec.) :|bsilent, color, 16 fps ;
|c16 mm|3internegative
306 000744
336 two-dimensional moving image|btdi|2rdacontent
337 projected|bg|2rdamedia
338 film reel|bmr|2rdacarrier
340 |jinternegative
500 Running time at 16 fps is 7:44.
506 Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. Access
by appt. only.|5CBPF
506 PFA 1604-121-16510. Restricted: Archival. Not for research
or exhibition.
511 0 Performer, James Lee Byars.
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.
534 |pReproduction of (item)|t[Après documenta V].
|c[Switzerland] : [James Lee Byars?], [1972].|e1 film reel
(7 min., 44 sec.) : silent, color, 16 fps ; 8 mm original
reversal positive
541 0 |3PFA 1604-121-16510. |aD0121 |cdeposit |d 2014/10/13
|5CBPF
580 Preservation blowup from 8mm original reversal positive.
590 PFA 1604-121-16510.|aPreservation blowup from 8mm original
reversal pos at Cineric 2007.
650 0 Performance art.
651 0 Bern (Switzerland)
655 7 Short films.|2lcgft
655 7 Filmed performances.|2lcgft
700 1 Rivaz, Michel de,|d1920-|erecordist,|efilm director.
700 1 Byars, James Lee,|eperformer.
776 08 |iReproduction of (item)|t[Après documenta V].
|d[Switzerland] : [James Lee Byars?], [1972].|h1 film reel
(7 min., 44 sec.) : silent, color, 16 fps ; 8 mm
|w(OCoLC)966433355
956 20161219|bpfmcq|cCO
956 20170104|bpfmcq|cMR
957 OCLC xref loaded 20170115
994 C0|bCUY