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The Red and Black. Wednesday. November 30. 1977 Page - r .
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Pizza making 101 now on film
By BEN FUGITT
“Let me tell you this about
pizza dough If it sticks, it’s no
good I tel! you, you might as
well throw it away and go
home.’’
This pearl of wisdom is from
Warren Bass’ film. Gino’s
Pizza, one of the six films Bass
icreened for anyone interested
Monday night in the Fine Arts
building Gino’* Pizza purports
to be a documentary on how
Gino. a sleazy Sicilian stereo
type, makes his “real good”
pizzas Gino has a knack for
making profoundly detailed
philosophical orations on even
the most minute details of
pizza-making It’s hilarious.
Always remember to close
the door to your oven.” Gino
adds solemnly, 'because it
gets hot as hell in the kitchen ”
It's a wonderful character
sketch, with a flawless sense of
tongue-in-cheek humor running
through the whole thing The
film walks the perilous border
between out and out slapstick,
and the feeling that the thing is
to be taken seriously It lakes
a special filmmaker to keep it
walking that shaky tight rope,
and scoring all the while. Bass
is that kind of artist.
Bass kicked off his 2*a hour
show with four rather avant
garde films that combined
various, and in his particular
case, incredibly sophisticated,
optical printing, animation,
video and electronic tech
niques For the most part, the
most noteworthy aspects of
these particular works was the
technical wizardry behind
them, and not really the films
themselves
These were followed by
Gino's Pizza, and Joseph
llirshhorn: A Portrait The
Hirshhorn film gave Bass a
chance to do a character
sketch of a real person, one
that not only studies a rare and
fascinating subject, but one
with social significance as
well (Gino was the creation of
Bass and a fine young actor.
Steve Finkeh.
Hirshhorn is worth hundreds
of millions, and is one of the
most prominent art collectors
in the world Hirshhorn recent
!y gave away to the Smithson
ian. a staggering $100 million
worth of sculpture, a collection
that has almost everything
from Rodin to Calder.
Hirshhorn as Bass describes
him "He's really a fascinating
man He’s full of all sorts of
contradictions he has no
sense of verbal communica
tions about art. other than
saying il’s great, or I hive it.*
yet. he has fantastic taste.”
Example In the case of a
very modernistic metal sculp
ture. Hirshhorn says. "I love
it I tell you. it's called
Figure, but I call it The Man
with the Goo goo Eyes'
Like an artist with his brush.
Bass captures his subject with
a few deft strokes of his
camera And. unlike an artist,
with shrewd questioning
At one point he asked
Hirshhorn if he's sad about
giving his collection away
Hirshhorn replies. "I’m glad to
have the money to give it
away At my age. I'm glad not
to have to sell apples ”
Bass' camera is as biting as
his questions Picking up
Hirshhorn s intrinsic resem-
blence to Orson Welles'
Charles Foster Kane. Bass
occasionally minics Welles'
music and camera angles as a
sly commentary of Hirshhorn's
Xanadu-like wealth
Unfortunately, through much
of Bass' show, the symphony
was roaring away in the next
room This prompted the
question, is it unusual for a
university to have such inade
quate screening facilities”
Bass replied. "It’s not
unusual It is unusual for a
campus this size ' Amen
Photo by C TALBOT NUNNALLY
Warren Bass, filmmaker
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