Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Cardboard Friends

Liza Béar, Mischief Still, sharpie and crayon on recycled cardstock, September 2018
Liza Béar, Beauty & the Beast, September 2018

Sunday, July 29, 2018

July 28, 1968--$50, 50 years

https://www.facebook.com/notes/liza-b%C3%A9ar/july-28-1968-2018-50-50-years/10155448525736890/Ju 

Sunday July 28, 1968, JFK. I've just disembarked from a London-New York charter flight via Iceland. It's the pre-credit card era. In my wallet is $50--that's what I'm allowed to take out of the UK, and a $200 Greyhound bus ticket for 2 months' unlimited cross country travel. Driving into Manhattan from the airport, from the bus window, the urban paraphernalia is new and different. The lamp posts arching, unsupported, ominous over the wider roads, the shrill, raucous, impatient traffic sounds, the oversized cars and trucks, giant bagels, muffins--the oversized glutinous helpings at the diner. 

Saturday, April 7, 2018

The Swimmer featuring Barbara Love Is Live Online

Watch the movie at
http://vimeo.com/212819793

Filmmaker Liza Béar Photo Paul Rowley
You may know Barbara Love as the co-author of Sappho Was a Right-On Woman, or as the editor of Feminists Who Changed America, or as trouble on the street for the patriarchy, but well before and long after these endeavors, until the age of 75, she had another life as a champion swimmer, winning 500 medals for freestyle and butterfly. On April 6 1956 at age 19 she broke a World Relay Record in freestyle at Daytona Beach, Florida--a highlight of her swimming career. It seems a good occasion to celebrate, and why not, with this film, a quirky minidoc I made in New York City. I hope you'll have a moment to watch it.
Liza Béar
http://vimeo.com/212819793