Preraphaelite Dream
Split screen, two-projector stereo sound film documenting the filmmaker's friends and extended family in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as they perform their lives for the camera
Gerard Malanga
Director
Split screen, two-projector stereo sound film documenting the filmmaker's friends and extended family in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as they perform their lives for the camera
In the Search of the Miraculous is a multi-levelled story realized with extremely personal techniques and with the kind of atmosphere of Poetry and Introspection, only a poet could create. It is, in fact, the story of a poet searching himself through his love for a girl, and of the girl searching for her father. Obsequious to the iron rules of the avant-garde, the film has neither a beginning nor an ending it is a series of moods, it is a search which is at the same time spiritual and concrete, it is a moment in the life of two people. (Donatella Manganotti)
This compilation of Gerard Malanga's short films consists of a collection of extremely rare footage and film portraits providing candid and interesting glimpses of Bob Dylan, Salvador DalĂ, Jane Fonda and The Velvet Underground among other 1960s icons and featuring original music by Angus MacLise, who was the first drummer to perform with The Velvet Underground.