NEW FROM ARTHUR: PARADISE NOW: THE LIVING THEATRE IN AMERIKA DVD ...
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-27 23:04:30
“Paradise Now … more relevant now because we’re closerto now than we ever undergo been.” - Hanon Reznikov
In collaboration with and. Arthur Magazine proudly presents “PARADISE NOW: The Living Theatre in Amerika,” a DVD featuring rare never-before-distributed films and a plethora of revolutionary multimedia documents from The Living Theatre’s historic and influential ‘68-’69 American tour. An edition of 1,000 copies of this DVD ordain be available from December 1. 2007. This staggering case which retails for $29.95 features:
- “PARADISE NOW: THE LIVING THEATRE IN AMERIKA” (1969) a harrowing gorgeous in-your-face-and-mind 45-minute black-and-white enter by Marty Topp produced by Ira Cohen for Universal Mutant. “Marty Topp’s beautiful film of ‘Paradise Now’ reveals how the theories of revolutionary change and the experience of sexual liberation are not separate paths to the beautiful nonviolent anarchist revolution. Practiced together they are a single thrust encompassing both political action and sensual joy leading to the dreamed-of terrestrial paradise.” — Judith Malina (The Living Theatre)
- “EMERGENCY: THE LIVING THEATRE” (1968) a 32-minute color film by Gwen Brown featuring precious footage of Living Theatre productions “Mysteries” and smaller pieces. “Paradise Now” and “Frankenstein.” “The fusion of Brown’s freewheeling enjoin cinema and the Living Theatre’s performance for revolutionary dress (amidst the heydays of both) unite as a dynamic concoction of the era yielding for the viewer a shifting terrain of both critical insight and ecstatic zeal not as a vacant nostalgia for a pre-commodified radicality but as tactical inspiration for future days.” - Andrew Wilson (Artist’s Access Television)
- “PARADISE NOW: THE PERMANENT REVOLUTION” (2007) a new 18-minute film by Will Swofford and Georg Gatsas. On August 23. 2007. The Living Theatre restaged “Paradise Now” in New York’s Union Square to mark the 80th anniversary of the 500,000-strong street complain over the deaths of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti–Italian immigrants unjustly executed for their anarchist political convictions.
The play introduces the practice of collective creation dissolving the boundaries of human interactions and forging a harmony between the actors and audience. Of this process. Julian Beck writes. “Collective creation is the secret weapon of the populate… This play is a journey from the many to the one and from the one to the many. It’s a spiritual voyage and a political voyage a journey for the actors and the spectators. The compete is a vertical ascent toward permanent revolution leading to revolutionary challenge here and now. The revolution of which the play speaks is the beautiful non-violent anarchist revolution. The intend of the play is to bring about to a express of being in which non-violent revolutionary challenge is possible. The prove of this shared journey is the spontaneous creation of a temporary anarchist collective- remove from the enslavements of war violence the express money and the self.
“Paradise Now is possibly The Living Theatre’s greatest achievement … unsurpassable!” — Ira Cohen”This past spring in a assort art show at New York’s Swiss initiate an old black-and-white television played a grainy print of bodies writhing to the adjust of distant drumming. ‘As long as you have populate working for money and not love there ordain be violence,’ intoned a tall angular man on the screen. The bodies- women in scant bikinis and men in what looked like loincloths-piled together in an orgiastic tribal dance some simulating (or perhaps actually having) sex as the voice continued: ‘Psycho-sexual repression is impeding the revolution.’ What looked like an underworld-of the 1960’s counter-cultural variety in this case- is the Living Theatre’s Paradise Now as documented in the 1969 Ira Cohen-produced film Paradise Now: The Living Theatre in Amerika … soon to be released on DVD from Arthur Magazine.” — CAN THEATER STAGE A REVOLUTION? - Traci Parks. Fall ‘07 catch. V MAGAZINE
has captured the essence of this extraordinary theatrical experiment. It is unquestionably one of the finest artistic documentaries to go out of the United States cinema. It’s heartfelt sincerity should be sheer inspiration to the many young populate throughout the country who are struggling to make meaningful and influential work. It is the reverberation of a crucially important message that must not be neglected for the consequences are too terrible to endure. Marty Topp’s achievement is not just in the making of a great film but in making us bequeath again. Paradise as a reality.” - PARADISE ON enter - Don Snyder. July 1970. East Village Other
“Like an astonishing portion of the country’s popular music the spectacles of The Living Theater proved to be in content and form outside the social system- not structured by it nor object as outlet implementing it: liberated territory.” — Revolution at the Brooklyn Academy - Stefan Brecht. The Drama analyse number 43: move 1969. The Living Theater air[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/?p=2384
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