Wallace Berman's Film "Aleph" (Brian Jones)

 

A still from the Wallace Berman film "Aleph." Brian Jones.

Wallace Berman Postcard Sent to Lawrence and Patricia Jordan

 

A Wallace Berman postcard sent to Lawrence and Patricia Jordan. At the time these were stills from my dad's unfinished film at the time "Aleph." A work-in-Progress. Here is Wallace, Louise Herms, and Larry & Patty Jordan. -

Tosh Berman

Tosh Berman Discusses Wallace Berman's "Aleph" Monday, March 8, 2021

 

Monday, March 8, 2021 at 4 PM PST – 6:45 PM PST

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Tosh Berman will narrate a walk-through of his father's surreal collage art film ALEPH created 1958-1976 by the Beat artist Wallace Berman.

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Son and author Tosh Berman will approach his father’s art, the "father of assemblage art" Beat Generation icon Wallace Berman, with a deep-dive into the experimental collage film ALEPH (1958-1976), a meditation on life, death, mysticism, politics and pop culture.

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On TOSH (2018) published by City Lights Books: TOSH is a memoir of growing up as the son of an enigmatic, much-admired, hermetic, and ruthlessly bohemian artist during the waning years of the Beat Generation and the heyday of hippie counterculture.

FILMS: Selected film and tv clips, and full length screening of ALEPH (1958-1976) by Wallace Berman 7:43’ and a restored film by one Berman’s art world contemporaries. TRT 120 minutes.

BIO: TOSH BERMAN, writer, poet and once publisher of TamTam Books, penned the acclaimed memoir Tosh: Growing up in Wallace Berman’s World (2019).

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https://www.publishersweekly.com/.../78786-tosh-berman...
https://www.haaretz.com/.../.premium-this-day-a-famed...
https://www.monsterchildren.com/wallace-berman-artist/
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http://tamtambooks-tosh.blogspot.com/

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Tosh Berman Live and presenting Wallace Berman's Film "Aleph" in Berkeley

MARCH 19, 2010, at BAM

Gallery B

Inspired by Semina, a free-form journal published sporadically by artist Wallace Berman and his circle in California in the 1950s and 1960s, each issue of Anne Colvin’s Skank Bloc Bologna is a looseleaf collection of works from an international cast of artists, writers, and poets. Issues One through Three are available in the BAM/PFA Store. Issue Number Four will be the first time-based and paper issue, drawn from Colvin’s five-evening L@TE residency at BAM (February through June, on the third Friday of each month), and will include ephemera from the performances, spoken word events, screenings, sounds, and conversations.

The second installment of Skank Bloc Bologna Number Four features more of the unexpected! Tosh Berman presents Aleph, his father Wallace Berman’s hand-painted filmic meditation on life, death, mysticism, politics, and pop culture. Tosh, who runs Tam Tam Books, will talk about music with respect to his father and the film. Local artist Jennifer Locke’s career as a professional dominatrix and champion submission wrestler informs her physically challenging “actions,” which she performs hidden from the audience and reiterated in a live video feed. A recorded sonic tour by U.K.-based dub poet Lynton Kwesi Johnston explores his experiences as an African Caribbean living in Britain. Journalist, documentarian, and sound artist Tania Ketenjian, the host and producer of arts program “Sight Unseen,” which airs on KALX in Berkeley and is syndicated on Resonance FM in London, will produce field notes drawn from interviews with audience members to be used as the basis for a future radio show. Skanking encouraged!

Preceded at 6 p.m. by KALX DJ Citizen Zain, who will respond to SBB4 with a mix of skank, opera, and Scritti Politti. Wine and beer will be available for purchase.

L@TE is made possible in part by Bank of America, the Tin Man Fund, and the continued support of the BAM/PFA Trustees. Special thanks to our media sponsors, East Bay Express and San Francisco Bay Guardian.

Anne Colvin would like to thank Tosh Berman, the National Film Preservation Foundation, and John Zorn.

Wallace Berman event at Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery December 12!

Wallace Berman

On view through January 9, 2010
Press and images online here


In conjunction with the exhibition:

*December 12th, 4:30 PM*

Reading by *Max Blagg*
of works by poets of the Berman circle including Kirby Doyle,
Stuart Perkoff, and Lew Welch

Screening of /Artifactual: Films from the Wallace Berman
Collection /(compiled 2006)
Introduced by *Andrew Lampert*
Featuring live music by *John Zorn*,* Trevor Dunn* and *Kenny
Wollesen*
(28 minutes, 16mm, silent)
Wallace Berman only made one film in his lifetime, /Aleph/.
While preserving this film, another assortment of reels was
uncovered containing many more films with footage by and of
Berman. These various 8mm pieces have now been collected
together and blown-up to 16mm. This new compilation features
unseen scenes of Berman in his milieu with friends and family,
including footage of a George Herms exhibition, a motorcycle
ride (perhaps shot by Dean Stockwell) and materials related to
/Aleph/.




Preserved with support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the
Visual Arts. 8mm-to-16mm blow-up by BB Optics.


Free and open to the public


Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery
526 W. 26th Street, No. 213
New York, NY 10001
gallery@nicoleklagsbrun.com
P. 212.243.3335
F. 212.243.1059
nicoleklagsbrun.com

Wallace Berman Solo Exhibition in New York City

Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of
*Wallace Berman* (1926-1976) running from November 6 to January 9,
2010. An opening reception will be held on Friday, November 6th from
6:00-8:00 pm, featuring a screening of Berman's collage-film /Aleph/
(1956-1966) with a reading by Tosh Berman and a live performance by John
Zorn of his score for the film.

Building on the gallery's longstanding involvement with artists of the
California counterculture, this exhibition presents a rare opportunity
to consider the scope of Berman's practice. Considered by many to be a
major figure of the assemblage movement, Berman was active within the
Los Angeles and San Francisco Beat communities and acted as a mentor and
spiritual advisor to many artists. Anticipating mail art and Fluxus
movements, Berman's work has had wide-ranging influence despite the
artist's determination to operate outside of the public eye.

Through sculpture, collage and the underground publication /Semina/,
Berman fused aspects of photography, film and print. Central to
Berman's multifaceted practice is the Verifax collage, an early
photocopier technology. Berman manipulated ephemeral compositions
directly on the copier plate, creating prints that are in fact unique
originals. A magazine advertisement of a hand holding a small 1963 Sony
transistor radio recurs throughout in these works; in place of the
radio's rectangular speaker, Berman inserts collage elements such as a
cross, a snake, and a Buddha, transforming the repeated image in a
quasi-magical operation. Also on view in the exhibition are a rock
assemblage, photographic collages, and hand-printed posters, giving a
sense of the breadth and complexity of Berman's visionary oeuvre.

The project room features a restored version of /*Aleph*/ both in its
original silent form and with a new score by John Zorn, courtesy of the
National Film Preservation Foundation with the assistance of Anthology
Film Archives and the Film-makers' Cooperative.

Wallace Berman was recently the subject of a retrospective exhibition
/All is Personal: the Art of Wallace Berman/, Camden Art Center, London,
UK (2008). This is his third exhibition in New York; his first was at
Charles Cowles, 1982, followed by Louver Gallery, 1990.


Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery
526 W. 26th Street, No. 213
New York, NY 10001
gallery@nicoleklagsbrun.com
P. 212.243.3335
F. 212.243.1059
nicoleklagsbrun.com

Wallace Berman's "Aleph" but bootleg version

Ah this was bound to happen. Someone has put my Dad's (Wallace Berman) film up on YouTube. Well enjoy.

Wallace Berman's "Aleph" but bootleg version

This I suspect was shot off the screen at the Camden Arts Centre. I like it because of the sound of the 16mm Projector.

Wallace Berman Film Event at the Billy Wilder Theater on August 25, 2007

About a year ago I found some film footage underneath my studio table
– and alas it was a great find! I sent the footage to The Anthology
Film Archives in New York – and presto! What we have is "Artifactual:
Films from the Wallace Berman Collection."




U.C.L.A. Film & Television Archive will be screening "Artifactual" as
well as my Dad's film masterpiece "Aleph" on Saturday August 25th at
the Billy Wilder Theater in the Hammer Museum in Westwood Los Angeles.
The screening is set for 7:30 PM

The address is:

10899 Wilshire Blvd
at Westwood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024




Yours truly (Tosh Berman) will give an introduction to the films as
well as a little bit of Q&A with the audience. Also Book Soup has
arranged to have "Wallace Berman Photographs" (Edited by Kristine
McKenna and Lorraine Wild) and "Semina Culture: Wallace Berman and His
Circle" (Edited by Kristine McKenna and Michael Duncan) on sale at the
lobby of the Billy Wilder Theater before, during and after the
screening.

For further information regarding the screening and purchasing tickets
online check out http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/

Also I will have detailed information about "Artifactual" on my blog
website shortly. The address there is:

http://tamtambooks-tosh.blogspot.com/

Down below is a brief description of the other films at the screening.



Saturday August 25 2007, 7:30PM

FILMS FROM THE ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES

This program of films from both New York and Los Angeles will include
such landmarks as Saul Levine's New Left Note (1968-82) and Paul
Sharits' T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G. The evening will be anchored by the work of
Wallace Berman, including screenings of Aleph (1956-66) and
Artifactual: Films from the Wallace Berman Collection.

In person: Tosh Berman

16mm, 35mm, 100 min.