WILLOUGHBY SHARP
wlloughby Sharp Photo by
John Van Saun
"I'm a critic myself but of with everyone at her last party
my self and my own lakes and
plants and mountains and friends
they're all in my head, it's a Steve, Gene, George. and
picture posteard.
"1 often think I'm following zoo. Flying to Houston in the de
orders"" dont exist either
except in my imagination, or
yours"
"How can we be what we are if
we're trying to do it somehow"a
"I'm a lover first and foremost"Bridget's cock book. Getting her
minutes, "Rain" The Beatles
7 January. 1970
Writing letten to her men
Sequence 6
Bob, David. Leo. Salence
Steve, Gene, George, and Sequence 7
Jill Johnston
119 Bowery
New York City
Gregory. Taking Winnie to the
Dust storm syne sound.
Menils' plane to see the Machine
show. Studying at Columbia Jll Johnston
University. Having dinner at ejo Levine
Max's with Andy, Viva, Gerard,.
and John and looking at New York, New York
January 22, 1970 Dear Jill:
Just returned to town and am
busy working on my show at
119 Bowery
Leo's and then I have to start
work immediately on the
lithographs and poster for a
It's serprising that someone Most of the words and pacturesbirth certificate from Somerset Dear Jill:
are images of persuasion"
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Syne sound at party. People
hasn't already made at least one
whole movie devoted to JJ. A
single day in her life would be
more mind blowing than alking. dancing to radio mudc
anything you could see in a
42nd Street movie, there'd be
enough material to keep a Sequence 7
dedicated filmmaker cutting and Country sounds.
splicing for years. The film could Sereen A
be shot in 16mm and Super 8 Sequence 1
and shown on two screens with One-minute wide angle shot of a
double sound track
Cast (subject to releases)
Jill Johnston
Winnie
Richard
Les Levine
David Bourdon
Ann Wilson
Gene Swenson
Yvonne Rainer
Clive Barnes
John Cage
Polly
John Perreault
Gregory Battcock
John Opper
Tom Hess
George Segal
Frd Herko
Viva
Danny Moses
Cy Nelson
John Brockman
Steve Paxton
Bob Raushenberg
Leo Castelli
The de Menils
Andy
Gerard Malange
Bridget Polk
John Giorno
Juy Bang others
Sound
Sequence 1
Silent
Sequence 2 Wind and moving
and Gradual increase 1olume
until camera leaies ground level.
Thes sund of waves breaking North Carolina. Lying on the continuous takes spliced
House in London. Playing the Many thanks for your invitation show in Philadelphia. So it's
pano at Ann Wilson's, working to contribute to Les Levine's impossible to do a piece that
at the Public Library. Talking"Culture Hero." I'd love to write you mentioned.
with Gene Swenson who is a piece on you-and will
picketing the Modern with asomeday But at the moment Are you in town, if so give me a
blue plastic question mark. I'm just too tied up to give the call after next week and we can
Reading an article to friends at project the attention it deserves. have lunch or a drink
John Giorno's benefit at St. So please forgive me and I'll take
Mark's Church in the Bouwerie
Sequence 6
Silent
M .a rain check.
Editing this issue of Culture Happy new Year-and the best
Hero,
Happy new year.
Love, Jasper (Johns)
of all possible decades
cloudless cool blue sky, abstract Sequence 5
and undifferentiated Title
Credits
Sequence 2
Slow pan one foot above white wooden folding chairs, desk
Nantucket sand (individual books in bookcase, ice box,
grains visible). Movement from kitchen uternsils, food drinks on
bottom to top of screen. Camera long wooden table.
shifts to upright position, and a Sequence 6
small girl, holding a doll, is seen Same scene. No people. Polly
from the back. Focus in on the and JJ in bed.
doll's head. Dissolve.
Sequence 3
Four quick scenes of JJ's dance out.
journeys:
Riding Snip in Big Bend, New Sequence 1
Mexico through a rock cactus Same as A. Double screen.
thorn desert at sunset. JJ, in Sequence 2
black bells, purple shirt and Aerial shot of water taken from
unknotted pink striped tie passes glider following direction of
through the shot left to right.
With Gregory (open shirt, brown girl stands ankle deep at the edge
leather jacket and shades) in his of the sea. She holds her doll by
yellow Triumph trying to cateh
the BOAC flight to London.
Shot from the hood of the car.girl's face. Dissolve.
Driving up to e eld red JJ practicing at the bar
Sincerely
Grace Glueck
A JJ party at Il9 Bowery. Short
hand-held takes of faces
Movements. Pan over sofa,
KENNETH KING
Dear Jill,
CAF
e PLORE
wHASALLET
Doesn't the really indelible,
juiey part begin (I think) after
you come back; return to find
bubbles at your shoulder? Then
later that cancellation
performance where you're in a
rush to get to something with
polished boots that's never to be
and finally Marcel and wife step
calmly, expectantly out of the
cab only to get back in again and
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Static shot of rock pile. Black
Sereen
disappear into the night. I
remember it all. I guess that's
how feel though about you.
But then, then you pass through
that Holy Hurricane and a world
of other moments: like telling
George for instance after making
you stifly immortal that his
trouble is he doesnt transcerd
Duchamp and David Bourdon himself. Really Jill: Or freaking
out that Texas businessman with
your sticky fingers racing
waves to shore. The same small
the right hand and they face inGregory Battcock. Teeny
opposite directions. Zoom to
Amherst for Sequence 3
outside the Cafe de Flore,
rhrough an asparagus salad to
Paris, 1969 Photo By Les Levine ulfill your promise to
Yvonne's concert in the
Chassee croisee
"
5I Pontiac that Jill bought from
misbehave. Really No doubt
about it. Your Super. But, if 1
had to pin you down I'd have (in
all fairness) to say it's simply
imp-posSIBYL: Jill's a Magie
Lady in the perpetual process of
Miles Frost for $50. Slow Battement en l'air
Atlitude.
uninterrupted take.
motion
Flying over the Atlantic with Grande jetee.
two passports in her teddy boy Sequence 4
jacket. writing an April Vv A tall tree. Camera still-
column in red ink
Sequence 4
Randon takes from JJ's life:
Painting with John Opper in
26
minute take.
unmaking herself (like the Lady
on my wall) erasing the stand
Sequence 5
Waterfall near Amherst. Mass
selling the catalogue. Sergei.
Zora, the rest? They've gone.
Shot in Super 8 color. Three
Disappeared. Leaving me
standing with an empty cup.
10
grass at Oxford. Being cast as a together 150 feet
Segal seulpture at his New Jersey minutes)
on shore, eaulls and wind
Some frame-up, no? I've finally
decided to make the Big Move
and return to school and do
philosophy if the buildings are
still standing and if ever
Sequenee 3
J's iceDon't count vour chicken farm. Being interviewed Sequence 6
goings belore vour comings."
Repeated four tinss
Sequence
's toice Mll ms bookiness all
my book learning my book book
book was a biautiful farce
The said I was a frustrated
perfornsr by being a critic. I
by Tom Hes for the Art Nes B .
ig. Dance classes in Boston. Sequence 7
Listening to Musak in a Holiday Dust storm.
Inn 23 miles south of Detroit. Disolve to black
Discussing a new work with Sound B
Freddy Herko at Judson. Taking Sequence 1
Richard to the zoo. Watchine Silent. Sky sounds.
(and loving) Viva in 1.ion Loce
Being shot by David Bourdon Wind in sky steady volume
for a home movie. Meeting U(played by Winnie) hums.
Danny Moses of Simon and
Schuster and Cy Nelon of Sequence 3
Blank white screen.
manage to finish all the books
Also think you know how much
I appreciate you keeping my
secret; even this. (Richard K.
JOHNSTON A
IL.I
D SCRIPTION
didn't understand the signals: he
(As told to Teeny Duchamp on includes me in his new book of
. Sequence 2
the occasion of her birthday by the 60's under "dance.
A
her grandson. George mistake.) The sign? No, not yet.
Matisse age 9 or 10 on a long Something about the throne in
was
Criticim is an outmeded form
of cominunieation.
JJ's oiceis all of arl about
"Femme Fatale"-Nico
distance teleple call from Rome being emply and a band
of troubadours, or something
putting other peuple's art works Dutton to sign contracts for new Track overdubbed with car. Cambridge.
together
1 changed m failure into film festival. Arguing art
funny little faded dreams.
"I neser uok for anything
January 20, 1970) And, to close, Heraclitus: In
times of folly, over our cups.
horse, plane, people sounds.
Sequence 4
Quict on Sundays
Different from others
b
books. Attending the Ann Arbor
Something like that, anyway
Anyway, till we meet up in Ur
or Paradise intimately strangers
Sound of breeze through leaves
Half interesting
Went on lots of trips
criticism with John Brock man.
saa again, ms body was iving. and stealing books Rushing water. (3 minutes)
slow, ms mind sers fas
passing through the other bodies
much much much much much
Buying. borrowing. lending, Sequence 5
People talking over water sound
(3 minutes)
Separate and alone
..and fairly friendly
Always talking.
much much and then more Love
Discussing sex and Zen
Some of m best friends have philosophy with John Cage at |
bodies
remember, Kenneth
his Stony Point studio, Dancing Coming in on top for last 4
