Emails between childhood Thacher School playdaters:
THANKYOU again Freida
will go as bigscreen as possible with your films!
Edie mother was alienated by lots
brother dead at 5
mother dead at 7
father William odd n distant
boys school
conservatives all over the places
she was a Vassar commie '30s
married against her reason
divorced to restart her journey
small $ worked frugal single mother
always socially progressive
open to & supportive of "outsiders"
created Head Start in west Pasadena
twice Woman of the Year in the Black community
"off-white" I call us
she had the backs of all cousins who finally came out
and to your recollection: she was warm & welcoming to all kids & "grownups" outside our family... common stuff
family=pushbuttons
= a fine childhood w ordinary traumas chills rejections ... joys
lots of free playing... onyourowness
. . . this is more than you need to pass by here
I fled southern California fa-sho
separated from cousins like from highschoolers
still bits connected to Anne Sherman Weezy Tony Families... Mike Hermes was a friend til dead
all lucky-good-bad-entitled stuff
I digress
Be Well
Bill
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Freida Mock wrote:
Yes share (these emails) & I look forward to diving into your poetry/haiku/ word slam et al..and catching up. You’re next door to Berkeley where brother _ lives. I love visiting Ojai where daughter _ lives with her family…on Thacher Road!!! so I keep in touch with the clan that I think you kinda fled…you mom is very vivid, positive to me growing up, a beautiful person, lady…
Per films the recent ones are on the streamers but you can see some from our site but I hope you mirror to a big tv monitor for a fun effect -
Big cheers - Freida
FYI - American Film Foundation/ Sanders & Mock Prod -
https://www.google.com/search?q=american+film.foundatiom+vimeo+on+demand&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari
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Dear Found Freida, Lucky Again Bill.
Film goes to deep
Film has always been my THE !
By '61 Berkeley had 5-7 art film places Kael inspired gifts waiting for us
Treasures blind wandering of this non-academic gets some focus pointers
Robert Bresson Cassavetes Fellini Godard Fassbinder Almodovar Scorsese Lee Sayles Jarmusch lotsa boys ... got too busy to stay current
Todays Nancy and I do find all the girls on our wonders smallscreen
?How You All Manage! It All!? Films!
THANK YOU Freida+!
Your Links set us and Others up for Pleasures
You've gifted us all plenty (= no pkg we'll find all we've missed . . .)
Grateful Bill+
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Dear Bill,
It’s so generous and thoughtful of you to send me your magnificent book which I set aside for a moment until I could give it my full attention after my current deadlines.
When I realized there are so many fascinating ideas, poetry, ’stream of conscious’ flow of pictures and humanity in your book, I decided first to simply look at your photo and art and save text and words for a time when I could savor all.
As a first experience, I let your fascinating photos ‘wash over me’ and when I’m back from a short trip, first RT flight n 2 years !, I plan to read your book. It’s Great that Dan came in to your life, like a Boswell!
What I love about photography and your work is how ‘framing’ with your eye toward humanity creates a deep focus for the viewer. Congratulations on your body of work!
If you’re interested, I’m happy to send you some old media dvds of my work but much of it is available on the streaming sites or on Vimeo.
Attached here are trailers of my recent ’21 and ’22 releases, the later of which is in festivals, a few theaters and available on the streamers. I hope you see them!
Best,
Freda
freidamock. (LMK if there are dvds from here you’d like) ••••• “If have any interest in music being in a choir is fun...it’s like so fun.”- Billie Eilish, 6 years in choir starting at age 8
Friends - The Choir and Conductor, a sequel to the Oscar - nominated SING!, has launched in theaters and on streamers. Here’s the movie trailer https://www.laemmle.com/film/choir-and-conductor and here’s the Streaming info https://geni.us/TheChoirandConductor“This is the best children’s choir I've ever heard.” - Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen
What happens when a woman gets the chance to conduct? A world-renowned Choir for children where Billie Eilish learned to sing at age 8 is electrified by its charismatic Conductor Anne Tomlinson who uses the power of choral singing to profoundly shape and transform the lives of thousands of children. The story is a celebration of music and the arts as vital and healing to children’s well-being during times of uncertainty and cutbacks in the arts. ••••And here’s RUTH. Both movies are on the streaming platforms - ”RUTH - Justice Ginsburg in Her Own Words,” a 90 Minute Feature Documentary Film - VIEW THE TRAILER Champion of Justice
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Thanks Bill. I enjoy knowing you’re making the world a better place. Thanks! I remember the beautiful spirit of your mom and her smile. On occasion I see our ‘old gang’ - Weezy, Tony et al - as my daughter ____ lives in Ojai on Thacher Road and I love visiting the town which has been overrun and inflated by urbanites.
Wishing you very best -
Freida
freidamock.
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Hello Freida, Bill Dane
What is your mailing address please
Hoping you are good enough to Go...
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billdane.com
Bill WilliamThacherDane
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