An ineffable mix of unbridled joy and vérité realism, A Poem Is a Naked Person presents the beloved singer-songwriter Leon Russell as filmed by Bay Area documentarian Les Blank between 1972 and 1974. Blank’s camera lets us into the world of Russell and his friends and fellow artists in and around his recording studio in northeast Oklahoma, capturing intimate, off-the-cuff moments and combining them with mesmerizing scenes of Russell and his band performing live. This singular film about an artist and his community never got an official theatrical release and has attained legendary status. Now, after more than forty years, it can finally be seen and heard in all its rough glory. (1974/2015, 90 min, digital)
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Music Movies
Music movies have always been a popular way to see behind the scenes of a music movement. Choose your own musical adventure in this diverse series of the best in NEW music movies. Are you a fan of industrial noise music? Or more of a 70s rock type? Latin boogaloo or traditional Thai? Find your kind of music, or see all 5 films in YBCA’s Music Movies series this December.
An ineffable mix of unbridled joy and vérité realism, A Poem Is a Naked Person presents the beloved singer-songwriter Leon Russell as filmed by Bay Area documentarian Les Blank between 1972 and 1974. Blank’s camera lets us into the world of Russell and his friends and fellow artists in and around his recording studio in northeast Oklahoma, capturing intimate, off-the-cuff moments and combining them with mesmerizing scenes of Russell and his band performing live. This singular film about an artist and his community never got an official theatrical release and has attained legendary status. Now, after more than forty years, it can finally be seen and heard in all its rough glory. (1974/2015, 90 min, digital)
Part of:
Music Movies
Music movies have always been a popular way to see behind the scenes of a music movement. Choose your own musical adventure in this diverse series of the best in NEW music movies. Are you a fan of industrial noise music? Or more of a 70s rock type? Latin boogaloo or traditional Thai? Find your kind of music, or see all 5 films in YBCA’s Music Movies series this December.
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