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  Nam June Paik & Shigeko Kubota
Allan 'n' Allen's Complaint
 
  USA 1982
30:00, colour
It is a strange historical fact that Jean-Paul Fargier managed to publish a seven page analysis of this tape in Cahiers du Cinéma. It is a work about Jewish sons and their fathers: about Allen Ginsberg and his father, about Allan Kaprow and his father, about Jesus Christ and His Father. About doubling and about remake. About the Dead Sea Scrolls and about electronic scrolls; about Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky; about the Wailing Wall and about Kaprow's ice wall. About Jesus and Allan, both of whom walked on water - one under his own steam and the other thanks to the medium. About Allen and Allan; about the poet and the happener. Other characters in this work include Pierre Restany and the video-maker Catherine Ikam.


Camera: Bill Marpet and others, Special effects: Judson Rosebush and others, Editing: John J. Godfrey and others, With: Allen & Louis Ginsberg, Allan & Barnett Kaprow, Catherine Ikam, Peter Orlovsky, Pierre Restany