{"id":15062,"date":"2014-03-29T01:43:38","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T01:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=15062"},"modified":"2014-03-29T01:51:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-29T01:51:05","slug":"eyetoon-a-film-by-jerry-abrams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/03\/29\/eyetoon-a-film-by-jerry-abrams\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyetoon, a film by Jerry Abrams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/68474854\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"eyetoon1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eyetoon1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fuck for Peace&#8221; declares a title card at the end of Jerry Abrams&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/68474854\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Eyetoon<\/em><\/a>, an 8-minute slice of psychedelia from 1968 whose second half has a hippyish couple doing exactly that as they run through a few hardcore <em>Kama Sutra<\/em> moves. The rest of the film is comprised of rapid editing and some brief animated overlays, together with street shots of the residents of what I&#8217;m guessing is San Francisco. The buzzing, twittering electronic score is by David Litwin. A year before this Abrams had documented the Human Be-In, the first major hippy gathering in Golden Gate Park in January 1967. His equally psychedelic film of that event can be seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yHZ4-4f2rUI\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/68474854\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"eyetoon2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eyetoon2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/04\/23\/street-fair-1959\/\">Street Fair, 1959<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/05\/12\/san-francisco-by-anthony-stern\/\">San Francisco by Anthony Stern<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Fuck for Peace&#8221; declares a title card at the end of Jerry Abrams&#8217; Eyetoon, an 8-minute slice of psychedelia from 1968 whose second half has a hippyish couple doing exactly that as they run through a few hardcore Kama Sutra moves. The rest of the film is comprised of rapid editing and some brief animated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/03\/29\/eyetoon-a-film-by-jerry-abrams\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eyetoon, a film by Jerry Abrams&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49,52,29,7,3,17],"tags":[2532,5922,5921,879],"class_list":["post-15062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abstract-cinema","category-animation","category-electronica","category-film","category-music","category-psychedelia","tag-anthony-stern","tag-david-litwin","tag-jerry-abrams","tag-the-residents"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3UW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}