Buster Keaton (1895-1966)
2010 ::: movie
Samuel Beckett's Film
Samuel Beckett’s only venture into the medium of cinema.
A twenty-minute, almost totally silent film in which Buster Keaton attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye.
Samuel Beckett’s only venture into the medium of cinema.
A twenty-minute, almost totally silent film in which Buster Keaton attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye.
Buster Keaton (1895-1966)
Samuel Beckett's Film 1965, 21 minutes, B&W
Directed by Alan Schneider Produced by Barney Rosset
O: Buster Keaton Nell Harrison: Passerby James Karen: Passerby
Foxrock provides the following synopsis:
Samuel Beckett’s only venture into the medium of cinema, Film was written in 1963 and filmed in New York in the summer of 1964, directed by Alan Schneider and featuring Buster Keaton. For the shooting Mr. Beckett made his only trip to America. The film, which has no dialogue, takes its basis Berkeley’s theory Esse est percepti, that is “to be is to be perceived”: even after all outside perception -- be it animal, human or divine -- has been suppressed, self perception remains. Film was edited by Sydney Meyers and the cinematography was by Boris Kaufman, both of whom were preeminent in their fields. Film was produced by Barney Rosset and Evergreen Theater.
Related:
"Film" by Samuel Beckett, by Katherine Waugh and Fergus Daly
"Film" Beckett and Failure, by Ted Sludds
Brownlow on Beckett (on Keaton), by Kevin Brownlow
On Samuel Beckett's "Film", by Barney Rosset
David Frost on "Film"
Textual Cinema and Cinematic Text, by H. Martin Puchner