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Walter Ungerer's experimental short film "Meet Me, Jesus" (1966)

David Pescovitz at 9:52 am Tue, Nov 13, 2012

Meet Me, Jesus is a strange 1966 experimental film by Walter Ungerer. It is Ungerer's first narrative short, following his 1965 documentary The Tasmanian Devil, about drag racing. (via toys and techniques)

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

TAGS: art film

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alicebettycoltranedavis

Hell yeah, he’s off that Brakhage.
diannarust

from what I understand, he made ‘Meet Me Jesus’ after being influenced by Stan Vanderbeek’s ‘Breath Death’. At the time he completed ‘Meet Me Jesus’ he was assisting Vanderbeek with his Columbia University animation course.