1998, 48 min
Shown in 1999
CREDITS
- dir
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Chuck Smith, Ari Marcopoulos
- prod
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Chuck Smith
- cam
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Ari Marcopoulos
- editor
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Chuck Smith, Alex Arce
- source
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Smith and Morcopoulos Productions, 8 E. 2nd Street, New York, NY 10003. TEL: 212-677-5131. EMAIL: sonochuck@ecrthlink.net
- gga award
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Certificate of Merit, Film & Video: The Arts
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COMMENTS
Shown with Le Petomane: Fin de Siècle Fartiste.
OTHER
Karen Finley, Stelarc, Annie Sprinkle—contemporary artists who deploy their bodies like canvas and paint—are nothing particularly new. The truth is, many other twentieth-century artists have made their corpus their corpus. In Forrest Bess: Key to the Riddle, a gender-bending visionary emerges from obscurity as a full-blown painter and part-time baitmonger who lived along the Gulf Coast of Texas. Bess’s paintings in the 1950s and 1960s were part of an elaborate alchemical system drawing from dream life, Jungian philosophy and aboriginal pictography. At the core of his obsessive artmaking was the belief that hermaphrodism would lead to immortality.
—Steve Seid
FACTOID #200
Rockers, an entry at the 1978 SFIFF, was the first and only Jamaican feature film screened at the San Francisco International.
