MOVING PORTRAITS

GEORGE

George
 
Rosalind Stevenson / 1966-late 70s / 28 minutes / 16mm / black & white / sound on separate tape / 24 fps 
With and for George Millaway.
 
I filmed George every year from 1966 to the late 70s with the idea that together we were creating a biography in motion. 
 
…the predominance of mood… the interplay of looking and being looked at… the visual experience of a human being… the temporal through-line of the moving image… an extension of the visual experience in time and in the compounded saturation of the images… R.S.

STEVENSON’S KOUTOUKAS

Original flyer for THE BUTTERFLY ENCOUNTER (1978) Reproduced with permission of the Theater for the New City.

Stevenson’s Koutoukas

Rosalind Stevenson / 1978 / 9 minutes / 16mm / black & white / sound on separate tape / 24 fps
With H.M. Koutoukas and The School for Gargoyles

This film is a nine-minute portrait of H.M. Koutoukas during a rehearsal of his play “The Butterfly Encounter” at The Theater for the New City in 1978. It opens with him in a freeze-frame close-up and then breaks into motion as the camera follows him, now rehearsing an actor, now conferring with the musical director, now instructing a chorus of ‘mist people,’ now giving direction to the stage manager. Always in performance himself, Koutoukas is like a concertmaster with his attention on every instrument as the camera moves inside of that attention. With a final sweeping gesture he removes his hat, lowers his head, and all motion stops.

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