Mail Art Romance - A Film by John McClintock (1982) from John Bennett on Vimeo.
Mail Art Romance is a documentary about the avant garde
poets and artists (and my parents) John M. Bennett and C. Mehrl ("Lady C") Bennett's
courtship through mail-art in the late 1970's and early 1980s. Shot on
16mm film by John McClintock, the film is both a document of the DADA /
Fluxus related underground mail-art movement of the period and a unique
testament to the power of "true love".
The film features interviews with both artists as well as their
Columbus, OH post-man, reenactments of collaborative poems by the
couple, examples of their mail-art and footage from their July 4th, 1980
wedding in rural Mount Vernon, Ohio.TIME'S T-BONE - John M. Bennett and John McClintock (1982) from John Bennett on Vimeo.
TIME'S T-BONE is a 1982 16mm film by John
McClintock in collaboration with the poetry of John M. Bennett. The film
is a excellent realization of the Columbus, OH based avant garde poet's
vision, filmed on a blistering hot day in a junkyard off highway 71
with surreal imagery inspired by Bennett's poetry.
Created with the support of the Ohio Arts Council, the film also
features John M. Bennett's wife and collaborator C. Mehrl Bennett
wearing a plastic mask in the back seat of a junked car.
