Living a Making
presented by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
presented by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
"Living a Making" is, I hope obviously, a reversal of Making a Living. The idea is that while I've had to make a living my whole adult life I've always tried to live a little while working so that my whole life wasn't stolen away from me in economic servitude. I've f**ked at work (not shown here). I was born in Baltimore City but my family moved to the beginnings of the suburbs, which were still pretty rural at the time. In order to buy Mad Magazine & comic books, I'd walk the mile to the nearest small town, which was, itself, close to the Baltimore City limits, & pick up bottles along the way that I could get refunds for. So maybe my 1st job could be called recycling — although in the early 1960s, when I was doing this, the idea of recycling hadn't reached my ears yet. I mowed lawns & babysat. I worked construction, was a research volunteer, an artists' model, a hardwood floor finisher, a driver, a peep show mechanic, a book store worker & owner, a copy shop employee, a hot air balloon ground crew member, a film repairer, a teacher for the functionally illiterate, a projectionist, a museum exhibit installer, a guest lecturer at universities, & a myriad of other things. Throughout it all, I tried to have a good time & to approach the work with a political consciousness. This movie documents 40 years' worth of materials from my playful relationship to work. Most of the time I was too busy doing what I was doing to document it but there's still plenty here. At the end of it all, I'm still poor but I think I can truly look back on a life well-lived. Of course, my life wasn't spent entirely at work either. Most of it was spent doing exactly what I wanted to do: living in accordance with my imagination. I hope this movie helps inspire other people to do the same.
- February 6, 2019 notes from tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
Monday, August 26
6:30p Food & Social
7:00p Screening & Discussion
Glitterbox Theater
460 Melwood Avenue (in the Bloomcraft Building), Pittsburgh
Donations graciously accepted
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