Bruce Conner R.I.P.
The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that experimental filmmaker Bruce Conner died yesterday of natural causes. Anybody who knows about experimental filmmaking knows at least a little about his work; music fans too. Here's the film Conner directed for Devo's "Mongoloid":
And here's his film for Brian Eno and David Byrne's "America Is Waiting," from their My Life in the Bush of Ghosts album:
The dedicated Web site for that album (!) has his film for the song "Mea Culpa."
Update 7/9: In response to the legal request in the comments, I've gone ahead and removed embedding of the YouTube videos; presumably they'll be removed from YouTube shortly, so catch them while you can.
11:24 am
At the direction of Jean Conner, Bruce's wife (widow) and the copyright holder on Bruce's work, I request and demand that you remove the video "MONGOLOID" and "AMERICA IS WAITING" from your blog and or website.
I am an attorney and made similar requests for Bruce, who was adamantly opposed to on-line display of his films. Ms. Conner is of the exact same view. Please remove the video. Thank you for your anticipated prompt cooperation with this request.
Steven Fama