NICOLE PEYRAFITTE: Basil King: Mirage (A Film); plus drawings from Carnets 2

Basil King: Mirage
Directed by Nicole Peyrafitte and Miles Joris-Peyrafitte
RUN TIME: 22 minutes
‘I am a painter and a writer, and I follow these two habits, making lines that are not always linear,’ says 77 years old Brooklyn working artist Basil King. This 22-minute film depicts the vital ongoing dedication and intimacy between writing and painting. The mapping of multiple layers of King’s interior terrain is structured via his reading and autobiographical poem ‘Mirage’ and his paintings. King’s syncretic aesthetics were shaped by early childhood in WWII London, friendship with San Francisco Renaissance poets, apprenticeship to Abstract Expressionist painters Adolph Gottlieb, Robert Motherwell, and Mark Rothko, by his mentors and friends at Black Mountain College, including Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, and by his relationship with friends like Franz Kline, Franck O’Hara and Paul Blackburn.

Basil King : Mirage from Tawil Productions on Vimeo.

Film by Nicole Peyrafitte & Miles Joris-Peyrafitte

More info on Basil King:
http://basilking.net/art.html
Nicole Peyrafitte
http://nicolepeyrafitte.com/films/
Miles Joris-Peyrafitte
https://m.imdb.com/name/nm3098802/

Profound thanks from Junction Box to Basil King, for his kind permission for us to show the whole film here.

 

NICOLE PEYRAFITTE – DRAWINGS FROM CARNET 2: Wales Pages. (Redfox Press).

 

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Junction Box offers its thanks to Redfox Press for use of these images.

Nicole Peyrafitte is a pluridisciplinary artist born and raised in the Gascony part of the Pyrenees & residing in Brooklyn, NY. Her texts, voice-work, paintings, videos, & cooking are displayed in a range of multi-lingual & multi-faceted performances. Peyrafitte’s work is informed & characterized by a daily practice – a quest for life in art and art in life between two continents & four languages.
More info: http://www.nicolepeyrafitte.com/

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