Jud Yalkut
“Jud Yalkut was one of the most influential experimental filmmakers of the 1960s in New York … Since then, Yalkut has consolidated his enviable reputation as one of the most important metamedia artists in American independent cinema” Wheeler Winston Dixon
EXPRMNTL 1967
by Jud Yalkut (21′, 1967, silent, 8 mm)
A film diary shot during EXPRMNTL 4, the Knotte-le-Zoutte experimental film festival (December 24, 1967 – January 2, 1968) It contains among others: “America Hurrah” performance by Jean Claude van Itailie, performed by Théâtre de Poche; “Juliet and Romeo,” performance by John Latham including his film “Speak”; a performance of the poem “Masscheroen” on the theme of Marieke van Niemegen by Hugo Claus; a concert by Mauricio Kagel ; “MovieMovie” the incredible expanded cinema performance with a huge inflatable structure created by the Event Structure Research Group / Sigma Projects with Jeffrey Shaw, Theo Botschuijver, Sean Wellesley-Miller, and Tjebbe van Tijen, with the Musica Electronica Viva group; an impromptu happening by Jean-Jacques Lebel “Miss Experimental Contest” with Yoko Ono and Tony Cox; the Marxist and Maoist student demonstration “Viva Dziga Vertov”; a dinner with American filmmakers such as Shirley Clarke; and the festival awards ceremony followed by a reception.
