Post by g***@hotmail.comAnd I watched it without your permission.
And I laughed at it
And we all laughed and laughed when we realized that Benders
M.H. Benders wrote the original poem that I rewrote and adapted for
American audiences as "Autograph of Zorro" way back in 2004, this original
footage has been lost almost as long. Here's the story, from 2004:
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"In my opinion Will Dockery is easily one of the most
authentic
American poets around. A real coffeehouse poet who is
not scared of
mingling some real American elements such as country
music into his
poetry. Whileas you just try to appear as European as
possible with
all your sucking up to 80 year old European
surrealists." -M.H.Benders
M.H. Benders: "Hey Dockery, what about you reading
some of my Dutch
poems in front of a live coffeehouse audience and
videotaping it? I'd
really like to make this sort of cross cultural art. I
will put it on
my website which is viewed by a lot of Dutch people
every day. I wrote
a new poem called 'The Autograph of Zorro'. I have
both an english and
a Dutch version. It would be fantastic if you could
read it to a
poetry club dressed as Zorro, preferaably in both the
english and the
Dutch version. Make someone videotape it and you can
send me the
cassette and I will convert it to an internet video. I
will promote
this video in whole Holland and you'll sure be a known
name to the
dutch poetry crowd. Let me know how we continue."
Will Dockery: "I think this could be interesting. I saw a
short video clip
of yours last Winter on one of the newsgroups that
reminded me of the
video films I made with Truman Bentley in the years
1996-99, and the
idea of the reading of "The Autograph Of Zorro" brings
back thoughts
of all those hours of footage. I'm thinking of a video
for "The
Autograph Of Zorro" that would use not only me reading
the English
translation of "The Autograph Of Zorro", backed by my
jazz musician
friends, Henry, Grumpy, Follicle, et al... but..."
M. H. Benders: "That's great. It sounds like a really
interesting
project. I will promote the video over my website
which has about
80.000 visitors a year, enough to give your name a
decent boost into
recognition by dutch people. It's nice that these sort
of
cross-cultural initiatives can develop over the
internet. So much
negativity floating around that it's good sometimes
something positive
happens."
Will Dockery: "Also various bits by other Shadowville poets
and regulars.
Basically, just bring the camera and record what
happens. The reading
of "Autograph Of Zorro" could serve as the promo for a
further video
surrounding the readings. Over the course of a month
of so, if it
clicks right, we could have several alternative
versions of the poem,
in both English and Dutch... So, that's the basics,
with extra shots
of audience members and other poets, et cetera. I send
you all the
results, and you can use the one[s] most appropriate."
M. H. Benders: "Thanks for showing an interest in the
cross cultural
project I am planning. You can arrange the reading
events in everyway
that you see fit, I trust your artistic vision. When
you have taped
the events you can send the tape. It would be nice, I
think, to have
some real American elements mixed with it like Country
Music (I have
always been a great country music fan) but you can
also use jazz if
you want. I will make sure the video is digitalised
and shown on
different locations on the Dutch internet. Then, in
the future, we can
also try it the other way around."
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And so it goes, a classic momnet and work of Art /still/ being
discussed and remembered over a decade later.
And what have you done that's even lasted a week or two, Generic?
Right... nothing.
Post by g***@hotmail.coma film of you
We did all of this without your permission.
Thanks for listening and giving your opinion on the poem, song and
video, Generic... after all, that's why we creat art. Without an audience it
is hardly worth it.
And so it goes.
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