Harrod Blank

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Thu, 10/26/2023 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Documentary filmmaker Harrod Blank talks about art cars, Burning Man, and his father Les Blank with S.W. Conser on Words and Pictures on KBOO Radio
Award-winning independent director brings his art-car documentaries to Portland

 

Harrod Blank is a hero of underground culture, taking the prankster spirit to the world of documentary film.  His mother was the erotic ceramicist Gail Perrin Blank and his father was legendary director Les Blank, known for his filmic studies of ethnomusicology.  Harrod will be bringing his own films and the films of Les Blank to Portland in November.

In this special hourlong episode of Words and Pictures, S.W. Conser talks with Harrod about Werner Herzog, art cars, psychedelics, Burning Man, Delta Blues, guerrilla film financing, and growing up in a back-to-the-land commune.

 

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  • Time
    11:42
    Artist
    Leo Soileau
    Song
    Une Piastre Ici
    Album
    J'ai Ete Au Bal - Vol. 1
    Label
    WMG - Arhoolie Records
  • Time
    11:55
    Artist
    Lightnin' Hopkins
    Song
    Woke up This Morning
    Album
    Lightnin' Strikes, Vol. 1
    Label
    Essential Media Group

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