OLIVIA'S PLACE

Christoph Huber

«On Sunday, January 16, 1966, we shot 200 feet of 16mm Kodak Ektachrome MS film, type 7256, at Olivia's Place, 2618 Main Street, Santa Monica, California. We shot with a static camera, mounted on a tripod, using only available light. A recording of \"There Is Something On Your Mind\" by Big Jay McNeely and his Band, with vocal by Little Sonny, was on the jukebox then. The Harlem Globetrotters and Tokyo Joe, starring Humphrey Bogart, were on TV that afternoon.»

This text appears as a title at the beginning of Olivia's Place. In 1970 or 1971, Bill Norton filmed a scene for Cisco Pike there. Olivia's Place was also the inspiration for the song «Soul Kitchen» by The Doors. It was demolished in 1972 or 1973 as part of a redeve-lopment project that turned Santa Monica's Main Street into a boulevard of expensive shops and restaurants, including restaurants owned by Wolfgang Puck and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Thom Andersen, John Moore

This film is screened together with <filmlink id=\"2821\">Cisco Pike</filmlink>.
1972, Bill Norton