THE CEDAR BAR
Legendary artist Willem de Kooning and some friends Joan Mitchell, Peter Martin, John Myers, Teddy Moore and others-battle with legendary art critic Clement Greenberg over art and sundry other issues one night in the Cedar Tavern, a favorite watering hole for artists. While they drunkenly argue, a barrage of images culled from a wide range of 20th century films, newsreels, musicals and porn flicks provide a context for their words. Ultimately a fight ensues and critic Greenberg is forced to leave.
Leslies belated exercise in pop assemblage is an omnivorous, object-like, compulsively layered tape thats as relentless in its way as his 1964 loop The Last Clean Shirt. The editing is exceedingly dense many clips no longer than 15 seconds and the visuals often overshadow the hysterical drama that centers on the spell cast by critic Clement Greenberg. (Jim Hoberman)
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- Anthony Leslie
- Irinka Jakubiak
- Georgia Hodes
- George Vlachos
- Donald L. Brooks
- Crystal Field
- Jason Knapp
- Alfred Leslie
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- Alfred Leslie
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