Harry Smith: American Magus

Date: 3 July 2002 | Season: Infinite Projection

HARRY SMITH: AMERICAN MAGUS
Wednesday 3 July 2002, at 7:30pm
London The Photographers’ Gallery

A documentary by Paola Igliori (editor of an indispensable book with the same title) which provides a fascinating insight into the life and work of singular genius Harry Smith, whose pioneering abstract films were only a small part of his anthropological pursuits. His broad range of interests, including alchemy, the occult, folk music, field recordings, Seminole textiles and Ukranian Easter Eggs, are represented in this suitably kaleidoscopic film which flits between mysticism and secularity.

Paola Igliori, American Magus, Italy/USA, 2002, video, colour, sound, 93 min

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