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THE FORTY-AND-ONE NIGHTS

LAWRENCE JORDAN • 5m 10s

In the THE FORTY-AND-ONE NIGHTS, painter and collage artist Jess (Collins) performs his "Didactic Nickelodeon" of forty-one (now lost) collages to (his) selected sound bits in the manner of a turn-of-the-century cinematic jukebox.

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