Frank V. Ross’ Hohokam belongs to a small subgenre of films that I’ve seen at festivals over the past few years: Movies That I’d Love To Reccomend … If There Was Any Possible Way For You To See Them. Ray Carney booked Hohokam at his series at the Harvard Film Archive in 2007, and later that summer it screened at the New Talkies event in New York, but it otherwise had a limited life on the festival circuit, and for most of 2008 has gone unseen. But now, thanks to Indiepix, you can download Hohokam or buy the film on DVD. Blatant Self Promotion Alert: I wrote some notes for the release, which you can read on the movie’s Indiepix page. The trailer is embedded above.
“It is a travesty that Mekas’ stark vision of elegiac melancholia has not been rewarded with the coveted Golden Popcorn statue,” Boston University film studies professor Ray Carney said. “His [1997] film Letter From Nowhere—Laiskas Is Niekur No. 1 should have easily walked away with Best On-Screen Duo, or Best Kiss, or at least Best Ass.”
Tee hee and everything, but there actually isn’t a huge gulf between Mekas’ most recent major project and the kind of thing you might see on post-Tila Tequila MTV.
We’ve had a bit of trouble getting this episode to go through the iTunes feed, so we hope this re-post will fix the problem. The original post, with episode description and embedded player, is here.
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