On Site

On Site Moving Image Series presents Harry Smith’s Heaven & Earth Magic with an original live score by Lori Goldston, cello, and Corey J.Brewer, harmonium Join us for an evening of music and geometry, folklore and magic, between the everyday and the divine Animated by archivist, mystic, folklorist & polymath artist Harry Smith, Heaven & Earth Magic is "one of Smith’s most well-known works; this black and white collage film culled from cut-outs from nineteenth-century catalogues, the film traverses the landscape of an hermetic dream." (Harry Smith Archives) “The first part depicts the heroine’s toothache consequent to the loss of a very valuable watermelon, her dentistry and transportation to heaven. Next follows an elaborate exposition of the heavenly land, in terms of Israel, Montreal and the second part depicts the return to Earth from being eaten by Max Muller on the day Edward the Seventh dedicated the Great Sewer of London.” -Harry Smith