Michael John Fles | |
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Born | London, England | 11 November 1936
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Nationality | American |
Period | 1959–1995 |
Genre | poetry, fiction, non-fiction |
Notable works | Beyond the Beat Generation |
Spouse | 3 |
Children | 5 |
Parents | George Fles, Pearl Rimel |
Relatives | Louis Fles, Barthold Fles, Bart Berman, Helen Berman, Thijs Berman, Giorgio van Straten |
Michael John Fles (born 11 November 1936), known both as John Fles and Michael Fles, is an American poet, editor, musician and film personality. Professor David James referred to him as "the single most important promoter of underground film" in Los Angeles. [1] [2]
Michael John Fles was born to a Dutch father, George Fles, and a British mother, Pearl Rimel. [3] As conscious communists, his parents had moved to the Soviet Union, where his father fell victim to Joseph Stalin's Great Purge. [4] The mother, pregnant with Michael John, had left the Soviet Union to give birth in London. [5] Mother and son later emigrated to the United States, where Pearl Rimel found employment in the aircraft industry. Michael John grew up in Los Angeles and Ojai, California, where he graduated from the Ojai Valley School in 1950. [6]
Fles studied philosophy at the University of Chicago, but did not graduate. While a student, he became the managing editor of the Chicago Review. [7] In 1959 Fles was involved in the founding of the influential literary magazine Big Table. [8] Later he was the editor of The Trembling Lamb, a one shot literary magazine that published Antonin Artaud's "Van Gogh: The Man Suicided by Society", LeRoi Jones's "The System of Dante's Inferno", and Carl Solomon's "Danish Impasse". [9] [10] In 1960 and 1961 he was a managing and contributing editor of Kulchur. [11] During all these years he published his poetry far and wide. [7]
In October 1963 [12] he founded the Movies Round Midnight program at the Cinema Theatre at 1122 N. Western Ave. in Los Angeles, [12] along with Mike Getz. [13] [14] [15] [16] He ran the program until 1965. [17] From 1962 and into the 1980s he wrote over a dozen movie scripts, usually with co-authors.
Since, Fles has been active as a musician and music therapist, in the US, Canada, Mexico, and Israel. [18] [19] He lives in Trinidad, California [6] [20] and is now retired.
In his own overview of the art of film, John Fles, the single most important promoter of underground film in the city who had sponsored the festival, claimed that 'With Brakhage, then, we reached the beginning of the birth of the new Masters,' and his work remained the cynosure for experimental filmmakers.
Michael John fles is born in London to a British mother, Pearl Rimel; his father, George Fles (1908–1939), a Dutch communist, is imprisoned in a Russian gulag during Stalin's Great Purge;
So it is for John Michael Fles, whose mother, for years, never heard an unexpected ring at the doorbell without her heart leaping in the hope that it was her beloved George, finally released from a dreadful Siberian camp.
Michael Fles was sorry he couldn't make it to OVS's centennial celebration, but he sent greetings from his home in Trinidad, CA, and let us know he recently took part in what was termed as a "Sound Meditation Vernal Equinox" event.
John Fles was managing editor of the Chicago Review and contributing editor of Kulchur and has poetry published in all the Beat literary magazines. He edited a collection of pieces by Antonin Artaud, Jean Genet, and Carl Solomon called The Trembling Lamb.
Strangely, de Grazia feels compelled to drop a footnote: 'According to Allen Ginsberg, Big Table's assistant editor, John Fles, actually drove them in his car' (p. 358). Fortunately, such uninteresting digressions are rare.
Or John Fles would bring over a new jazz record and talk with me about his one-shot journal, The Trembling Lamb.
When I finished Dante's Hell it was Lucia to whom I thought I should show, and she thought it should be published immediately. I also showed it to a friend, John Fles, who was publishing a one-shot anthology of new work, along with Artaud, whom Fles dug. It was called The Trembling Lamb.
Although this affair was a flop, it is time to praise the efforts of John Fles, the originator and director of Movies Round Midnight.
[Movies Round Midnight] was started by poet, writer and critic John Fles, who has since left. Continuing Fles' policy, Alike combines the avant-garde with classics of the past, such as...
Although Getz and his programmer, John Fles, booked mainly movies from the Film-Makers' Cooperative, they did show a few locally made products as well, including Paul Mazursky's first film, Last Year at Malibu.
This late-night series, the brainchild of theater manager Mike Getz and local programmer Michael John Fles, kicked off on Columbus Day with the irreverent declaration, 'Oct. 12, 471 Years Ago Columbus Discovered America. Today you discover the New American Cinema.'
In Los Angeles John Fles is holding bravely the bleeding California beachhead with weekly shows at the Cinema Theatre.
Guitarist David Danielle is one such artist. He'll be at the Jambalaya Monday, Jan. 14, with the Weirdos and Michael Fles world music/shadow play project Sahaja.
An Equinox Celebration: 'Spontaneous Tone Poems' features Michael Fles playing ancient musical instruments from around the world...
John Fles, who was in California, came back to help out, and he drove the poets from New York to Chicago, and later wrote an article, The Great Chicago Poetry Reading, which gave an emotional account of the event.
John Fles' article "Are Movies Junk?" can be found in Film Culture 29. He also contributed to Robert R. Branaman's anthology Fuxi Magascene (Ari Publications, San Francisco, 1965).
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Michael John Fles | |
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Born | London, England | 11 November 1936
Occupation |
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Nationality | American |
Period | 1959–1995 |
Genre | poetry, fiction, non-fiction |
Notable works | Beyond the Beat Generation |
Spouse | 3 |
Children | 5 |
Parents | George Fles, Pearl Rimel |
Relatives | Louis Fles, Barthold Fles, Bart Berman, Helen Berman, Thijs Berman, Giorgio van Straten |
Michael John Fles (born 11 November 1936), known both as John Fles and Michael Fles, is an American poet, editor, musician and film personality. Professor David James referred to him as "the single most important promoter of underground film" in Los Angeles. [1] [2]
Michael John Fles was born to a Dutch father, George Fles, and a British mother, Pearl Rimel. [3] As conscious communists, his parents had moved to the Soviet Union, where his father fell victim to Joseph Stalin's Great Purge. [4] The mother, pregnant with Michael John, had left the Soviet Union to give birth in London. [5] Mother and son later emigrated to the United States, where Pearl Rimel found employment in the aircraft industry. Michael John grew up in Los Angeles and Ojai, California, where he graduated from the Ojai Valley School in 1950. [6]
Fles studied philosophy at the University of Chicago, but did not graduate. While a student, he became the managing editor of the Chicago Review. [7] In 1959 Fles was involved in the founding of the influential literary magazine Big Table. [8] Later he was the editor of The Trembling Lamb, a one shot literary magazine that published Antonin Artaud's "Van Gogh: The Man Suicided by Society", LeRoi Jones's "The System of Dante's Inferno", and Carl Solomon's "Danish Impasse". [9] [10] In 1960 and 1961 he was a managing and contributing editor of Kulchur. [11] During all these years he published his poetry far and wide. [7]
In October 1963 [12] he founded the Movies Round Midnight program at the Cinema Theatre at 1122 N. Western Ave. in Los Angeles, [12] along with Mike Getz. [13] [14] [15] [16] He ran the program until 1965. [17] From 1962 and into the 1980s he wrote over a dozen movie scripts, usually with co-authors.
Since, Fles has been active as a musician and music therapist, in the US, Canada, Mexico, and Israel. [18] [19] He lives in Trinidad, California [6] [20] and is now retired.
In his own overview of the art of film, John Fles, the single most important promoter of underground film in the city who had sponsored the festival, claimed that 'With Brakhage, then, we reached the beginning of the birth of the new Masters,' and his work remained the cynosure for experimental filmmakers.
Michael John fles is born in London to a British mother, Pearl Rimel; his father, George Fles (1908–1939), a Dutch communist, is imprisoned in a Russian gulag during Stalin's Great Purge;
So it is for John Michael Fles, whose mother, for years, never heard an unexpected ring at the doorbell without her heart leaping in the hope that it was her beloved George, finally released from a dreadful Siberian camp.
Michael Fles was sorry he couldn't make it to OVS's centennial celebration, but he sent greetings from his home in Trinidad, CA, and let us know he recently took part in what was termed as a "Sound Meditation Vernal Equinox" event.
John Fles was managing editor of the Chicago Review and contributing editor of Kulchur and has poetry published in all the Beat literary magazines. He edited a collection of pieces by Antonin Artaud, Jean Genet, and Carl Solomon called The Trembling Lamb.
Strangely, de Grazia feels compelled to drop a footnote: 'According to Allen Ginsberg, Big Table's assistant editor, John Fles, actually drove them in his car' (p. 358). Fortunately, such uninteresting digressions are rare.
Or John Fles would bring over a new jazz record and talk with me about his one-shot journal, The Trembling Lamb.
When I finished Dante's Hell it was Lucia to whom I thought I should show, and she thought it should be published immediately. I also showed it to a friend, John Fles, who was publishing a one-shot anthology of new work, along with Artaud, whom Fles dug. It was called The Trembling Lamb.
Although this affair was a flop, it is time to praise the efforts of John Fles, the originator and director of Movies Round Midnight.
[Movies Round Midnight] was started by poet, writer and critic John Fles, who has since left. Continuing Fles' policy, Alike combines the avant-garde with classics of the past, such as...
Although Getz and his programmer, John Fles, booked mainly movies from the Film-Makers' Cooperative, they did show a few locally made products as well, including Paul Mazursky's first film, Last Year at Malibu.
This late-night series, the brainchild of theater manager Mike Getz and local programmer Michael John Fles, kicked off on Columbus Day with the irreverent declaration, 'Oct. 12, 471 Years Ago Columbus Discovered America. Today you discover the New American Cinema.'
In Los Angeles John Fles is holding bravely the bleeding California beachhead with weekly shows at the Cinema Theatre.
Guitarist David Danielle is one such artist. He'll be at the Jambalaya Monday, Jan. 14, with the Weirdos and Michael Fles world music/shadow play project Sahaja.
An Equinox Celebration: 'Spontaneous Tone Poems' features Michael Fles playing ancient musical instruments from around the world...
John Fles, who was in California, came back to help out, and he drove the poets from New York to Chicago, and later wrote an article, The Great Chicago Poetry Reading, which gave an emotional account of the event.
John Fles' article "Are Movies Junk?" can be found in Film Culture 29. He also contributed to Robert R. Branaman's anthology Fuxi Magascene (Ari Publications, San Francisco, 1965).
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