Go see my sister Immy's documentary!
Please save the date
Wednesday, November 8th, 7 PM
Doc
a documentary by Immy Humes
A gala sneak preview!
The Margaret Mead Film Festival
Opening Night
(the day after election day)
Screening at 7 PM of the work-in-progress
in the IMAX theater of the Museum of Natural History.
Followed by a panel of special guests &
cocktails under the planets in the Rose Planetarium
co-presented by Random House, ITVS, and Independent Lens (PBS)
for more info and to buy tickets
The amazing adventures of H.L. "Doc" Humes, the Count of the counterculture. Featuring: Lord Buckley, the Hip Messiah; paper houses for the poor; Don Peyote, his lost Beat film; Timothy Leary, George Plimpton, Norman Mailer, Paul Auster, the CIA, marijuana, massage, utopia-and paranoia.
In the 1950s and early '60s, Doc co-founded The Paris Review, wrote two acclaimed novels, and was a gregarious fixture of the cultural scene in Paris, London and New York. But in 1966, he went crazy--more or less. Doc was a 1950s NYC intellectual, a 60s free speech militant, and a 70s visionary mad genius. His story is the story of decades of cultural history, a poignant personal long-strange-trip, and a fount of ever-relevant ideas about the world. An unsentimental portrait of a man and his times by his filmmaker daughter Immy Humes.
"a hipster visionary neo-prophet, the legendary forgotten novelist H.L. Humes"
- Paul Auster, in his memoir Hand to Mouth
"alarmingly talented"
- New York Times review of his first novel "The Underground City" (1958)
"a writer and conversationalist with more intellectual energy and love of life than a writer needs, perhaps."
- John Updike in Licks of Love
"a national treasure - America's greatest living paranoid"
- Timothy Leary
"no ordinary asshole"
- his son, lovingly, at his funeral
Hope to see you at the screening - and please spread the word!
For more info and to buy tickets: The Doc Humes Institute
[ http://pinjoint.dochumes.com]
Wednesday, November 8th, 7 PM
Doc
a documentary by Immy Humes
A gala sneak preview!
The Margaret Mead Film Festival
Opening Night
(the day after election day)
Screening at 7 PM of the work-in-progress
in the IMAX theater of the Museum of Natural History.
Followed by a panel of special guests &
cocktails under the planets in the Rose Planetarium
co-presented by Random House, ITVS, and Independent Lens (PBS)
for more info and to buy tickets
The amazing adventures of H.L. "Doc" Humes, the Count of the counterculture. Featuring: Lord Buckley, the Hip Messiah; paper houses for the poor; Don Peyote, his lost Beat film; Timothy Leary, George Plimpton, Norman Mailer, Paul Auster, the CIA, marijuana, massage, utopia-and paranoia.
In the 1950s and early '60s, Doc co-founded The Paris Review, wrote two acclaimed novels, and was a gregarious fixture of the cultural scene in Paris, London and New York. But in 1966, he went crazy--more or less. Doc was a 1950s NYC intellectual, a 60s free speech militant, and a 70s visionary mad genius. His story is the story of decades of cultural history, a poignant personal long-strange-trip, and a fount of ever-relevant ideas about the world. An unsentimental portrait of a man and his times by his filmmaker daughter Immy Humes.
"a hipster visionary neo-prophet, the legendary forgotten novelist H.L. Humes"
- Paul Auster, in his memoir Hand to Mouth
"alarmingly talented"
- New York Times review of his first novel "The Underground City" (1958)
"a writer and conversationalist with more intellectual energy and love of life than a writer needs, perhaps."
- John Updike in Licks of Love
"a national treasure - America's greatest living paranoid"
- Timothy Leary
"no ordinary asshole"
- his son, lovingly, at his funeral
Hope to see you at the screening - and please spread the word!
For more info and to buy tickets: The Doc Humes Institute
[ http://pinjoint.dochumes.com]