Harry Smith

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

P. Adams Sitney talks with Harry Smith.

Smith says his listening audience should be familiar with the works of Levi-Strauss, Noam Chomsky and a little bit of Wittgenstein. He refers to Strauss' "The Raw and the Cooked."

Sitney asks Smith to talk about his film "Mahagonny" and how it will be exhibited. Smith goes on about Carl Jung and Jungian theory. He talks about the theory behind his film "Mahagonny" but wonders and is not terribly clear to the interviewer.

Smith says the imagery doesn't exist as such --- it is what people expect it to be. He says people do not often appreciate silent film and he refers to the work of Duchamp. A visionary, perhaps. Hard to follow, absolutely.

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