IT’S NICE TO BE WITH YOU ALWAYS: A FILM ABOUT NEELI CHERKOVSKI
It’s Nice To Be With You Always: A Film About Neeli Cherkovski
Directed by Kyle Harvey
Premiered March 8th, 2020 at the Omaha Film Festival
Lithic Films
It’s Nice To Be With You Always blends together Cinéma-vérité style footage and conversational interviews to create an intimate portrait of the poet Neeli Cherkovski.
Neeli Cherkovski is the author of many books of poetry, including Elegy For My Beat Generation (2018) From the Canyon Outward (2009), and The Crow and I (2015). He was the coeditor of Anthology of L.A. Poets (with Charles Bukowski) and Cross-Strokes: Poetry between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Cherkovski also wrote biographies of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Charles Bukowski, as well as the critical memoir Whitman’s Wild Children (1988). His papers are held at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. He has lived in San Francisco since 1974.
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COOLIDGE & CHERKOVSKI: IN CONVERSATION
Filmed June 25th, 2018 in Petaluma, CA by Kyle Harvey Swapping personal stories and anecdotes, Coolidge and Cherkovski offer insight into a wide range of topics including: the New York School, the San Francisco poetry scene of the 60s/70s/80s, the Language School, the Vancouver Poetry Conference, the Berkeley Poetry Conference, David Meltzer, Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Charles Olson, Gertrude Stein, Philip Whalen, Charles Bukowski, Bernadette Mayer, Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston and more. Includes lengthy appendices where each poet presents some thoughts on poetics and their approaches to writing poems.
Clark Coolidge is the author of more than forty books, including Space, Solution Passage, The Crystal Text, At Egypt, Now It’s Jazz: Writings on Kerouac & The Sounds, The Act of Providence, and most recently Poet, 88 Sonnets and A Book Beginning What And Ending Away. Connected to both the Language movement and the New York School, his poetry utilizes syntactical and sonic patterns to engage, and generate, meaning. In a 1968 poetics statement, he noted, “Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness, Density, Sound-Shape, Vector-Force, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity.” Initially a drummer, he was a member of David Meltzer’s Serpent Power in 1967 and Mix group in 1993–94. Currently he has returned to active drumming with Thurston Moore and the free jazz band Ouroboros.
Neeli Cherkovski is the author of many books of poetry, including Elegy For My Beat Generation (2018), From the Canyon Outward (2009), and The Crow and I (2015). He was the coeditor of Anthology of L.A. Poets (with Charles Bukowski) and Cross-Strokes: Poetry between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Cherkovski also wrote biographies of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Charles Bukowski, as well as the critical memoir Whitman’s Wild Children (1988). His papers are held at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. He has lived in San Francisco since 1974.
A transcription of the conversation has been published by Lithic Press and is available here: https://www.lithicpress.com/index.php…
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PORTOLANO: A FILM ABOUT JACK MUELLER
Portolano: A Film About Jack Mueller (Fall 2018)
Directed by Kyle Harvey
Documentary / 53 min
Fall 2018
Lithic Films
Trailer:
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Coolidge & Cherkovski: In Conversation
Directed by Kyle Harvey
Forthcoming / Post-production
Lithic Films
Trailer:
Coolidge & Cherkovski listens in on an intimate conversation between two legendary American poets, Clark Coolidge and Neeli Cherkovski. Swapping personal stories and anecdotes, Coolidge and Cherkovski offer insight into a wide range of topics including The New York School, The San Francisco poetry scene of the 60s/70s/80s, The Language School, The Vancouver Poetry Conference, The Berkeley Poetry Conference, Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Charles Olson, Philip Whalen, David Meltzer, Charles Bukowski, Philip Whalen, William de Kooning, Philip Guston and more.
Clark Coolidge is the author of more than forty books, including Space, Solution Passage, The Crystal Text, At Egypt, Now It’s Jazz: Writings on Kerouac & The Sounds, The Act of Providence, and most recently 88 Sonnets and A Book Beginning What And Ending Away. Connected to both the Language movement and the New York School, his poetry utilizes syntactical and sonic patterns to engage, and generate, meaning. In a 1968 poetics statement, he noted, “Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness, Density, Sound-Shape, Vector-Force, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity.” Initially a drummer, he was a member of David Meltzer’s Serpent Power in 1967 and Mix group in 1993–94. Currently he has returned to active drumming with Thurston Moore and the free jazz band Ouroboros.
Neeli Cherkovski is the author of many books of poetry, including Elegy For My Beat Generation (2018) From the Canyon Outward (2009), and The Crow and I (2015). He was the coeditor of Anthology of L.A. Poets (with Charles Bukowski) and Cross-Strokes: Poetry between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Cherkovski also wrote biographies of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Charles Bukowski, as well as the critical memoir Whitman’s Wild Children (1988). His papers are held at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. He has lived in San Francisco since 1974.
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