Harrod Blank and Leon Russell on A POEM IS A NAKED PERSON, 2015
A Poem Is a Naked Person
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26m
Director Les Blank’s son Harrod Blank was instrumental in helping A POEM IS A NAKED PERSON see the light of day, after it had gone largely unseen for decades. In this conversation, Blank sits down with the film’s subject, musician Leon Russell, in Nashville to talk about POEM’s long journey, from its production in the early 1970s to its release in 2015.
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Les Blank on A POEM IS A NAKED PERSON
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The Making of A POEM IS A NAKED PERSON
This documentary, produced in 2015, features interviews with A POEM IS A NAKED PERSON director Les Blank’s son Harrod Blank; sound recordist and assistant editor Maureen Gosling; and Jim Franklin, the artist prominently featured in the film.
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Out in the Woods
Maureen Gosling, the sound recordist and assistant editor on A POEM IS A NAKED PERSON, spent two years making the film with director Les Blank, living for much of that time in northeastern Oklahoma, where Leon Russell was building a new recording studio. During that period, she shot her own Super...
