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<DIV>><I> Though I've enjoy(ed) Joe on the radio with his<BR></I>><I>
voice and ambient music in the<BR></I>><I> background all these years, these
films have really<BR></I>><I> opened the possibilities of<BR></I>><I>
putting Joe's stories/thoughts on film.<BR></I><BR><EM>Oh, I think they close
down many of the possibilities.<BR>The story heard is the story interpreted in a
million<BR>different ways, differently in each imagination --<BR>differently
each time heard, even twice by the same<BR>person. The story seen and
heard becomes something<BR>less open to interpretation.<BR></EM></DIV>
<DIV>Hi - I've been a reader of this site, but just subscribed. I couldn't
agree more with the opinion that film would "close down" the
possibilities. To me, Joe rides a wavelength into the mind that is
(thankfully) beyond any filmmaker's capacity to capture. Some things are
just meant to be experienced utterly personally: For instance, I
feel that the journey we are invited to take by listening to music
is stopped cold by the four "walls" of a video on a tv screen. I
shudder to imagine what a restriction someone else's vision of Joe Frank's
work would represent for me. I prefer to sit in the dark and let Joe lead
me to places I didn't know existed. --Karen
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