Two Evenings with Bill Moritz
Evening 1

THE MIDAS WELL SHOW
Films by William Moritz

All My Lost Lovers (1994-1999) 32 min, 3/4 video [world premiere] A memoir of some people I knew who died of AIDS. Partially funded by an American Film Institute Independent Filmmakers grant, but not yet finished perfectly... Star Trick (1975) 7 min. 16 mm [18fps with optical sound] Produced by Robert Opel, shot during an intermission of a play Heartbreak of Psoriasis (starring Divine) at the Kabuki Theatre in San Francisco. Described by a French critic as "The most beautiful single shot since the Lumiere Brothers watched the train arrive at La Ciotat." Shards (1982) 23 min. 3/4 video A memoir of Bob Opel, best known as the Academy Awards streaker, but a considerably more complex character. Also an indictment of the media and their distortion of facts in favor of a desired message... Braiding (1980) 4 min. 16mm [18fps with optical sound] Harry Frazier braids Don Kilhefner's hair. Another exercise in forbidden information... Gertrude Stein Film (1969) 9 min. 16mm [24fps, optical sound] Ah, the 60s... An attempt to apply Gertrude Stein's strategies to filmic language... Elysian Fields (1980) 3 min. 16mm [24fps, optical sound] Cal Valadez, Pat Turnbull and Michelle Jeanette dance in their garden... Jude (1970) 3 min. 16mm (24fps, optical sound] A film haiku, with Jude Carter, James Brownfield and Francoise Rosee. Rumanian Dance Rushes (1975) 10 min 16mm [18fps with optical sound] James Brownfield, Pat Turnbull and Cal Valadez dance, while William Moritz, Robert Curtis, Harry Frazier, Phil Stuart, and Gene Partyka voyeurize... Grains (1973) 4 min. 16mm 24fps optical sound Shofukuji cemetery. Fukuoka, 1972  Slow  Morning Rain (1978) 28 min. 16mm, 24 fps optical sound A ceremonial healing film, with footage shot by William Moritz, Harry Frazier, Robert Curtis and Amy Halpern. Music by Robert Curtis and Tony Selvage. Starring Roy Barge, James Brownfield, Robert Curtis, Ken Emerald, Harry Frazier, Will Geer, Kent Gordon, Gregg Heacock, Arlyn Helmka, K. Kawakita, Dave Krecke, Howard Lester, Richard Mattsson, William Moritz, Murphy, Rosalie and Ken Newell, Beverly O'Neill, Pat O'Neill, Kosei Ono, Robert Opel, Buddah-John Parker, Margaret Porter, Aggy Reed, Priscilla Rockwell, Jos Schoffeln, Tony Selvage, Rathin Sikdar, Phil Stuart, Sadao Tsukioka, Pat Turnbull, Cal Valadez, Jasper Vance, etc.