Monday, December 29, 2008

Stranded In Canton On YouTube?!


Finally available, and for free.

From a review in Variety:
Surfacing after 30 years, celebrated photog William Eggleston's pioneering experiments with black-and-white video teem with drunken denizens of Southern nightlife. Fitting an early-model Sony Porta-Pak with a prime lens and an infra-red tube, Eggleston approached his lurching subjects with the same close-up intensity that informs his famous still photographs. Certain sequences of lost weekends seem to surge out from a murky oblivion, although co-director Robert Gordon's 77-minute curatorial re-edit softens the edges somewhat.
More of a curiosity than anything else for me, but I've wanted to check this out for years.

3 comments:

Mike said...

Very anxious to check this out, thanks for tracking it down.

Joe said...

Wow. Is it watchable at all?

Jay said...

No, not really.