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Editorial Reviews

Two films by Bruce Conner Looking For Mushrooms, 1959-1965 and 1996 Music by Terry Riley Best Experimental Film 1997 : Ann Arbor Film Festival & 24th Annual Athens Film Festival New version completed in 1996 with 1968 solo performance of Poppy NoGood and the Phantom Band by Terry Riley.There are two different versions of LOOKING FOR MUSHROOMS on this DVD; the second one is designed to play as a continuous loop. Filmed in San Francisco, California San Pedro Tenanciango, Mexico, and Newton Center, Massachusetts. Edited in camera, 1959 to 1964. Final film edited for premiere showing as a never-ending film loop during the Bruce Conner solo show, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, 1965. LOOKING FOR MUSHROOMS was filmed with single frame shots and up to six multiple exposures of different images layered on top of one another and has more than 24 different images per second when shown at standard sound speed. 1996 version re-edited and extended X 5. CROSSROADS 1976 Music by Patrick Gleeson and Terry Riley CROSSROADS was produced with a grant from The American Film Institute. Grand Prize, 11th Annual Bellvue Film Festival, Bellvue, Washington, 1977. 23 unedited shots derived from declassified U.S. Government footage of the first underwater atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll, July 25, 1946, made available through the National Archives, Washington, D.C. The longest shot is 7.5 minutes. The cameras began filming before the explosion and continued to the end of the film roll. Some of the film was shot at very high speed, and some of it appears to be fogged by radiation. All of the footage is marked by the duress of its original production.