~ Immy Humes ~
On literary film-making: an evening with The Brooklyn Rail @ 7:00 pm on May 23rd
Visual Verse celebrates artists who use film and video to create work based on short stories and documentaries about writers or films which revolve around poetry. After presenting work by four leading literary filmmakers — Ram Devineni, John Scott, Cheryl Gross, and Immy Humes — a discussion will be moderated by Rachael Rakes, film editor for The Brooklyn Rail. That’s coming up this Thursday evening. The location is 52 Prince St, New York, New York. For more details, see the McNally Jackson bookstore website.
Feature films announced for the NYC episode of the International Literary Film Festival
Day 1 of the International Literary Film Festival
On Monday Nov 14, 60 Writers / 60 Places will be screened on the first evening of the International Literary Film Festival, a festival I founded a few months ago. According to our festival’s website:
60 Writers / 60 Places, a film by Luca Dipierro and Michael Kimball, is about writers and their writing occupying untraditional spaces, everyday life, everywhere. It begins with the idea of the tableaux vivant, a living picture where the camera never moves, but the writers read a short excerpt of their work instead of silently holding their poses. There is Blake Butler reading in a subway, Deb Olin Unferth in a Laundromat, Jamie Gaughran-Perez in a beauty salon, Tita Chico in a dressing room, Gary Lutz at the botantical gardens, Will Eno in a park, Tao Lin next to a hot dog cart, and Rick Moody on a baseball field. The writer and the writing go on no matter what is going on around them.
Watch a trailer for 60 Writers / 60 Places on YouTube
Watch another trailer for 60 Writers / 60 Places on YouTube
Day 2 of the International Literary Film Festival
On Tuesday Nov 15, Doc will be screened on the festival’s second evening. According to our festival’s website:
Doc, a film by Immy Humes, presents a portrait of her father, the legendary forgotten novelist and counterculture icon Harold Louis “Doc” Humes. Doc’s friends and family—including Norman Mailer, George Plimpton, Timothy Leary, William Stryon, Peter Matthiessen, Paul Auster, and Jonas Mekas—weave together a story of politics, literature, protest and mental illness, shedding light on an original mind as well as the cultural history of postwar America.
Watch a trailer for “Doc” on YouTube
Watch another trailer for “Doc” on YouTube
Short Literary Films
Several short literary films will also be screened on the two evenings of the festival. The program for short lit films will be announced soon on www.LiteraryFilmFestival.com.
