Circus Savage

If there is such an oldfashioned thing as stream of consciousness in cinema I suppose this is it It certainly felt like a flowing stream or river while I was editing day after day fitting foundsound to found outtake footage accumulated over almost sixty years of filmmaking All the images and sounds buried on reels and spools in the studio came into the light I felt singularly blessed to be making a nonlinear visual autobiography for it is a fact that most of my life in film is there The one guiding principle for the construction of the film was the ancient Russian proposal instead of canned plays see a rose hear a bomb Lawrence Jordan