1971-1980Coni BeesonEroticaQueer Cinema(s)Short FilmUSA
Coni Beeson – Holding (1971)
Two young women in love communicate through fantasy and touching in a rhythmic buildup, merging time concepts. Flashes of the past blend with the present and future in a collage of themselves, the hills, the sea and their sexuality.
http://nitroflare.com/view/7A988EB0F7B8602/Holding_%28Coni_Beeson%2C_1971%29.mkv
Language(s):English
Subtitles:None
Although her (all or nearly all of them shorts ?) filmography may not be as extensive as that of Kenneth Anger or Maya Deren, I think this filmmaker should probably rank in their company and be much better known. I’ve found it frustrating that any known public or biographical information about her, her career or working methods, amounts to about a sentence and a half. We are told that she was a member of a Bay Area film collective in the late 60’s / early 70’s, and that’s about it. Her inspired use of techniques like superimposition — in this short “Holding” especially — really stands out among my well over half-century of observing cinema far and wide.
would it be possible to have other films by Coni Beeson ? For example:
Unfolding
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0260476/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_11
and
The Now
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8240896/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_9
(all of hers would be greatly appreciated!)
Thanks in advance