Film Emil Bacilla

FILM EMIL BACILLA

The power of the press is an amazing thing. In fact it's as a direct result of said power that I became an "authority" on underground films and film-making in general. It all started when I was in San Francisco last summer and was taken over by the fantastic underground film scene that was, and still is, happening there. I became so disgusted with the non-action in Detroit when I returned that I wrote a tirade about film being dead in Detroit for the FIFTH ESTÁTE, and then followed that with a piece about the Canyon Cinema Co-op in Frisco. Then I started writing a short-lived column for the FIFTH ESTÁTE and voila, I was an "expert."

People started coming to me for advice about film-making and offering their help if I was doing anything. The only trouble was that I didn't feel competent to give advice and wasn't working on anything specific that required help. I managed to lose track of people, and not really be of too much help to anyone. I was also talking about possibly starting some sort of film workshop as part of the Artists' Workshop, and a bunch of other things. But then I stopped writing the column, went back to San Francisco for a short time, and then the bust hit the Workshop and things generally sort of fell into confusion.

Now, however, things are looking up. Trans-Love Energies has been formed, and is happening, the Love-In is due shortly, and THE SUN has I started publication. When John Sinclair asked me to do a column for THE SUN, I was overjoyed. For one thing a regular column is good for my ego. But, in talking about it we I decided to make it more of a functional column than the one I was writing for the FIFTH ESTÁTE. Although I'll be doing many of the same things, I hope to also be able to use the column as a means of helping people interested in film find out things they need to know.

Although, when you come right down to it, only God knows exactly what's going to happen in the future, and He 's not talking, I'd like to project some of the things I have planned for future columns:

1) A loose descriptive run-down on the film-making courses offered at WSU;

2) General information on how to make films: how to get started, short-cuts, and things to help you once you get started;

3) Specific Information on how to cut costs: places to get good buys on film and equipment (I'll need help here -- if anyone happens to hear of any sources, please let me know so I can pass them on and take advantage of them myself);

4) Information on grants and loans available to independent film-makers;

5) Information to people who want to help on films as to where they can go and what they're needed for (for example, if you're making a film and need a cast of thousands, and can settle for hundreds, let me know and I'll pass it along);

6) Information on what local filmmakers are doing;

7) Information on screenings of independent films in this area;

8) And more stuff like that there.

In short I'd like to have a functional column, but I'm going to need help from you. If you have any information that you think I could use, or if you just want to rap about films for a while, or if you're just lonely, call or write me c/o Trans-Love Energies, 8316840.

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SPIRIT/LOVE MACHINE for keeping family straight

SPIRIT/LOVE MACHINE for keeping world of family straight

SPIRIT/LOVE MACHINE for world family keep

SPIRIT/LOVE MACHINE keeping straight family world

SPIRIT/LOVE MACHINE making world family straight keeping machine

to live

to be included

make the shape 

through where feet fall

access

channel for the moon

with the sun

to follow along water's path

along with arroyos hills tops of trees

to be included

make the shape 

gone back to the sun

all vision

of the thing

golden weed

up through the white sun &

geen spiny yucca

MAN/WOMAN SPIRIT/LOVE!

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Max Finstein

Santa Fe, N.M.