Someone, bless his or her heart, has posted a series of excerpts from Home of the Brave, 1986's Laurie Anderson tour movie. ( DVD- coming soon, no really ) Catchphrase by Billy B, song and staging by Anderson.
Now for those of you who don't know, a film refers to a pre-video method of capturing images. A celluloid strip, coated with silver nitrate, was pulled through a mechanical contrivance and exposed to light. And we had to focus those lights by hand, no vari-light board. And no preset scenes on the audio desks. We had to walk through six feet of snow to get our avant-garde. And....
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