USA,
1985, 72 min
Shown in 2000
CREDITS
- dir
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Faith Hubley
- prod
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Faith Hubley
- cast
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Dizzy Gillespie, Maureen Stapleton, Linda Atkinson, Sam Hubley
- source
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Pyramid Media, P.O. Box 1048, Santa Monica, CA 90406 . FAX: 310-453-9083
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COMMENTS
Faith Hubley appeared in person as the recipient of the Persistence of Vision Award in 2000.
OTHER
Faith Hubley’s only feature film is an epic summing-up of her decades-long exploration of the world’s mythologies and art. Incorporating snippets of previous work, its fluid, improvisatory style is marvelously beyond categorization. The Cosmic Eye is a hip little jazz trio that travels by boat through time and space, observing the creation of the universe several times over, paying special attention to Earth and the strange little creatures called humans. The film’s centerpiece is an improvised conversation between Mother Earth (Maureen Stapleton) and Father Time (Dizzy Gillespie) as they create the human race and watch it veer out of control—by waging war and destroying the planet—in cosmic time. There’s no better introduction to the vast Hubley archives than this lovely film.
—Tod Booth
FACTOID #81
Anjelica Huston was the first recipient of the Piper-Heidsieck Award in 1991. When Huston received the prize from the champagne maker, she joked, “Can I drink it?”
