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Oddball Films is proud to present the seventh annual installment in the innovative interview-based series MESS (Media Ecology Soul Salon) featuring a rare appearance of one of the first ladies of the Beat Generation: poet, playwright and artist ruth weiss. For one night only, Los Angeles media artist and curator Gerry Fialka will interview weiss in person on Oddball's Cine-Stage. MESS (Media Ecology Soul Salon) is an engaging interview by Gerry Fialka with modern thinkers who will address the metaphysics of their callings and the nitty-gritty of their crafts. ruth weiss was one of the pre-eminent women of the largely male Beat Generation and a good friend of and collaborator with Jack Kerouac. A performer as well as a poet, weiss often combined live jazz music with her poetry (the first to do so) and organized jazz and poetry nights at The Cellar, a San Francisco beat club in the 1950s. In addition to this unique interview delving into weiss' fascinating personal and professional life, we will be screening weiss' rare cinematic film poem The Brink (1960) photographed by painter Paul Beattie. The Brink was described by Stan Brakhage as "one of the most important San Francisco films of the period." Plus, early arrivals will be treated to several 16mm beat rarities from the Oddball Archives before the show. Date: Friday, September 18th, 2015 at 8:00PM Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco Admission: $10.00 in advance or $15.00 at the door.
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ruth weiss (born 1928) is a German-born poet, performer, playwright and artist who made her home and career in the US, as a member of the Beat Generation, a label she has recently embraced and that is used frequently by historians detailing her life and works. weiss spells her name in lowercase as such as a symbolic protest against "law and order," since in her birthplace of Germany all nouns are spelled capitalized. She is often credited as the originator of combining live poetry with live jazz music.
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