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Looking for Mushrooms
Bruce Conner
music: Terry Riley (1996) 14min

 

 

 

Filmed in 1962 in Mexico where he spent about a year, Conner cut Looking for Mushrooms down to 100 feet in 1965 in order to fit it into an endless-loop cartridge for continuous projection. In 1967 he added a soundtrack by The Beatles (?Tomorrow Never Knows?). Thirty years later, he revisited Looking for Mushrooms, extending it to 15 minutes by repeating each frame five times and adding a new soundtrack ? ?Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band? (1968) by Terry Riley.