Black and White Trypps Number Three by Ben Russell

A tiny blog document,10/7/07:  Ben Russell, where have you been all my life?  I've been waiting for this film!  I've heard rumblings of your collaboration with Lightning Bolt.  My friend, T., ventured alone out to a dark, unknown location in Bushwick(?).  He told me about this, oh yeah, blood circulates through the veins of the underground.  This work reminds me of the Zanzibar films, early Philippe Garrel, the figures lit up against the black night, the beautiful losers I love so much.  And the saints and poets of El Greco . . .

(top photo):  from Black and White Trypps Number Three by Ben Russell (2007) 16mm

(bottom photo): el Caballero de la mano al pecho by El Greco (1584)

Black and White Trypps Number Three by Ben Russell (2007), From the Canyon to the Stars, NYFF, Oct. 6, 2007