Commiseration Moon
- Alexis Krasilovsky |
- 1976 |
- 6 minutes |
- COLOR |
- SOUND
Rental Format(s): Digital File
A cinepoem for women driven to the ground by love, Commiseration Moon stars the founder of Women & Film, Siew Hwa Beh, and poet Tom Cuson, former head of the Coffee Gallery poetry series in San Francisco. A poem from the soundtrack, "The Wet Umbrella," was published in Filmnotes, Melbourne, Australia, Summer 1977.
Written, produced, directed, shot and edited by Alexis Krasilovsky.
Featuring: Siew Hwa Beh, Tom Cuson, Amy Gassner, and Jim Richardson
Production Manager: Peg Fritsch
Grip: Donald Druker
Sound: Alexis Krasilovsky, Bruce Olinder
Camera Wheel constructed by Rufus Friedman
Equipment courtesy Elfriede Fischninger, Lenny Levy, Jim Richardson, Michael Waller
Selected Screenings:
Theatre Vanguard, Los Angeles
Collective for Living Cinema, New York