Film
Heartbeat
by Donna
Cameron
Fire
by Donna
Cameron
Film
clip: Hallucigenome (1961)
Soon after Henry Mescaline’s illegal 1961 entry into the United States with a franked Argentinian passport, his soon-to-be backer and publisher David Schneiderman (no confirmed relation to the current collection’s editor), began secretly recording conversations and film footage of d’Mescan on a miniaturized movie camera developed by NASA for use in the Gemini (and later) Apollo space programs. [See “Tupeat, Frompeet, Repeit” in Gargoyle 45 (2002) for Mescaline comment on USA space program].
In 1967, weeks before his death by heart attack in his upstate New York academic office while grading an unseasonably large stack of student papers, Schneiderman was able to edit together some of the footage into a film version of the successful 1964 “reader” of Mescaline’s work, Hallucigenome: The Henry Mescaline Reader (Atom Press: New York, Kabul, and Timbuktu).
Mescaline discovered the footage after Schneiderman’s sparsely attended funeral in late August 1967, and, reportedly, burned the footage and recordings along with numerous other “offensive” books from Schneiderman’s collection.
The surviving cut of just over one minute was pulled from the char by an unknown cemetery worker, but presumed destroyed until its discovery by Phoenelia Yeer in late 1998. Note the date of “1961” in the title segment, presumably when the footage was recorded.
Heartbeat
by Donna
Cameron1.3 mb Quicktime
Fire
by Donna
Cameron1.3 mb Quicktime
Film
clip: Hallucigenome (1961)Soon after Henry Mescaline’s illegal 1961 entry into the United States with a franked Argentinian passport, his soon-to-be backer and publisher David Schneiderman (no confirmed relation to the current collection’s editor), began secretly recording conversations and film footage of d’Mescan on a miniaturized movie camera developed by NASA for use in the Gemini (and later) Apollo space programs. [See “Tupeat, Frompeet, Repeit” in Gargoyle 45 (2002) for Mescaline comment on USA space program].
In 1967, weeks before his death by heart attack in his upstate New York academic office while grading an unseasonably large stack of student papers, Schneiderman was able to edit together some of the footage into a film version of the successful 1964 “reader” of Mescaline’s work, Hallucigenome: The Henry Mescaline Reader (Atom Press: New York, Kabul, and Timbuktu).
Mescaline discovered the footage after Schneiderman’s sparsely attended funeral in late August 1967, and, reportedly, burned the footage and recordings along with numerous other “offensive” books from Schneiderman’s collection.
The surviving cut of just over one minute was pulled from the char by an unknown cemetery worker, but presumed destroyed until its discovery by Phoenelia Yeer in late 1998. Note the date of “1961” in the title segment, presumably when the footage was recorded.