"Human qualities migrate through light and shadow... Like flames and waves, the dead and the living course through this world... without weight through space and time." Michael McClure and Joanna McClure along with the poet Kenneth Rexroth's daughter Mary make their way through SPECTRE MYSTAGOGIC.
The film unfolds in three acts: Act I ("Cyrano"), wherein Cyrano makes all manner of boasts and compares his lady-love to the marvels of the universe; Act II ("Prometheus"), in which pagan forces are compared with the supposed genteel nature of the 19th century; Act III ("Time Travel"), whereby t...
One of the few remaining authentically "Beat" films, made from the inside of that particular North Beach movement. Features artists Wallace Berman and family, artist John Reed and poets Michael McClure and Phillip Lamantia along with the growers of peyote in southern Texas. The film begins with a...