Video International Neoist Day - March 24, 1986

Sometime, probably in early 1986, Stewart Home declared March 24 "International Neoist Day". What he neglected to mention was that this was his birthday. Ha ha! Monty Cantsin & I decided to dedicate the day to shooting a single frame super-8 movie. She'd done this before & knew that it's both fun & a challenge to keep going. Around this time, D.J. at F.O.M.T., in Northern Ireland, had sent me a series of something like 22 cassettes recording an entire day in his life. He plays w/ his kids, drinks hard, & generally has a full & busy day. On International Neoist Day, Monty & I listened to all these tapes in order so that they cd be the soundtrack for our day of filming. Given that the visuals are a time-lapse record of our day, I sped up D.J.'s cassettes for the parallel audio. It's also worth noting that I no longer have this film - only this transfer of it. The film itself was sent to Howard Parker in California. As I recall, perhaps incorrectly, Howard was one of the members of the "6 Fingers Club", as it was known to some, if not all, of us. The 6FC was a correspondence group that consisted of D.J. @ F.O.M.T. in Northern Ireland, David Zack in Mexico, myself, Nunzio Mifune in San Antonio, TX, Parker, &, perhaps, others - "Blaster" Al Ackerman? D.J. wd send an airmail letter that he called "circulars" to one of the members of the 6FC & that person wd add to it & send it on to the next. I was somewhere in the middle of this chain. That way we all got to read the same letter from him. The 6FC was a reference to an R.A.Lafferty story called "The 6 Fingers of Time". - September 22, 2010E.V. notes from Monty Cantsin