Considered As a Downhill Motor Race

Oswald fired the starting pistol . . .

An addendum to the note in the previous post about the recently deceased Bruce Conner:

Tom Sutpen, co-creator of the great photo blog If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats has created a new blog, Illusion Travels By Streetcar, for his non-photographic thoughts.

Today he posted Bruce Conner's Report (1967), which I'd heard of but never seen. Now I have. It's amazing.

Sutpen's thoughts/description of the film are worth reading, but probably after you watch the film itself, if you are so inclined.

The film - found footage, brilliantly re-edited, like most of Conner's work - is about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. WARNING: contains flicker section unfriendly to epileptics, and also graphic bullfighting footage. It's 13 minutes long.

And if you don't want to click over to see the film at Illusion, I've included Conner's atrocity exhibition here below in the cut . . .

( REPORT by Bruce Conner, 1967 )