This footage was originally a short film that appeared at the Cannes Film Festival, in 1963, I believe. I digitized it, re-edited, applied some effects and added my own composition "Redhead Tells The Sun."

"Redhead Tells The Sun" was inspired by a psychic named Blair--our lives briefly, passionately intersected a couple of years back while I was on the lam in LA. Although skeptical of her powers at first, I came to believe very quickly that I was dealing with someone who had a foot in another dimension at all times.

 She often mused why I had "pulled" her into my existence. She believed I had been close to some edge and she came to pull me back from it. I think it was the other way around.

 I'll tell you this: if Blair told the Sun something, he'd listen.

In any case, the music complements the other-worldliness of the wild horses, the erotic power of the images, the flight from the abyss and the engine of creation as represented by the fire.

A million years ago, no ... in 1999 ... actually that was another dimension, pre-bush/cheney, wasn't it? ... there was an video installation that ran for six months at the SF Museum of Modern Art. Glenn McKay, who did psychedelic light shows for the Jefferson Airplane and other bands in the hippie era, was commissioned to do an installation of his light/color-based art. Two compositions of mine were chosen for the Seventies' Sex and Drugs segment, 3 Seconds Before Maia Smiled and Ubi Mel Ibi Apes (where there is honey, there are bees and, as such, entered the permanent collection there. I have to tell you it was really cool having my name on the wall. (See pic and Part Two below.)