Daria is still very beautiful- also very wise. One can never be completely void of pain. It's part of the human condition. One can only imagine the stories she can share. Dennis Hopper alone, is a lifetime worth of stories... and he's only one part of a multifaceted life.
Nancy Meehan, my first professional dance artist-teacher and early partner to dance maverick Erick Hawkins began her performance career with the Halprin-Lathrop Dance Company. As a result, Anna Halprin and her unique life's work were on my radar early in life. ZABRISKIE POINT is long overdue for an intelligent reassessment; it looks better with every passing year. This is a really lovely re-introduction to Daria who has clearly understood the importance of living a personally meaningful and meaning-filled life for herself and for those with whom she interacts. Thank you very much for posting this unexpected surprise.
I interacted with Daria a few occasions while working at a camera store in Northern California, just a few months ago. She went to get some work done with a bunch of images, telling me a bit about her prints and a bit about her past, she’s a beautiful soul.
17:56 this is so moving to all the souls transforming their relationship to healing. i had the privilege to work w Daria this past week and to hear what Anna went through so eloquently closes the loop on my experience of feeling burnt out so I can simply witness new structures and a foundation beneath me to fall back in love with - I MISS THE FLOOR! ❤
She spent so little time discussing Zabriskie Point. I really wish she elaborated on the whole experience of working with Antioni, working with Fraschette, the scene that takes place in the desert, so much more I wanted to hear about her experience working in this film. What a missed opportunity. Wish the director of this interview had prodded her more but maybe that deserves an entirely separate video interview
Hi Byron, yes that would deserve a separate interview:) This one was about the entire arc of Daria's life and work, and there was only so much time for each aspect. Good questions though that I would also be interested in.
As always with your work Jens, a beautiful moment in space and time, your subject rendered with such care and grace, revealing a potent story, generously offered to all. Bravo!
Beautiful, I was kind of waiting when to hear Daria's thoughts .. something that I felt calling in my Tamalpa study year. Both Daria and Anna, are beautiful, and there are so many truths as we are humans. I loved working with them and the most nutritious aspect was that I could relate myself and my own work in several ways, and, get the tools for my path to find my inner truth, peace & meaning. The search is on, it started before my birth to this world. the story goes on. Thank you, Jens Wazel, for beautiful work, thank you Daria for your openess 💚
Daria Halprin- a master story teller, seer, my precious teacher and guide… I will always draw upon your eagle eye wisdom and safe scaffolding in all of my teaching and art making. Endless gratitude for you…and this particularly inspiring narrative of the known and unknown…. 🙏🏽🌹❤️
What a wonderful discovery here! Your work kept drawing me in further and further. Daria and her mother have been tremendous inspiration in my life and I’m so grateful that you brought this message out. Very profound. I’ll be thinking about it for quite a while.
I would love to indulge in this "chrysalis to butterfly 🦋 " release. In order to graduate from pain, one must graduate to the butterfly stage. I have not arrived. However I imagine this learning venture to be somewhat expensive. In any event, the cinematography is alluring and palpable. "Zabriskie Point" makes a valid point. Though gaps are intentionally provided in the screenplay, the story illustrates the destruction of zealots of capitalism and controlled, biased democracy. "Daria" who's seemingly young and innocent, loves spontaneity of the moment, also knows "both sides of the tracks." After learning that her lover has been murdered by over zealous, kill-happy authorities, and a native woman is working as a slave to her corporate employers who stole that woman's heritage, she imagines the destruction of the marketing, advertising, deceiving, and land-raping plastic, human business parasites. Babylon has been destroyed, yet nobody wins. Society has become a stalemate from within. Don't understand why the film received such negative criticism. Albeit, perhaps inadvertently, ANTONIONI provided a glimpse into the future. Other than technology, not much has changed. The character "DARIA" takes the role of the protagonist and provides the transparency to a very clouded and corrupt imperialistic America. Just my interpretation. The film's theme seems to run somewhat parallel to "Easy Rider." The corporate demagogues are no less ignorant than the hillbillies. Difference being, the opposite side of the tracks are destroyed in the end. Ironic how Daria's character name was "Daria." Evidently, ANTONIONI, saw a similarity between the character and the person.
David Lindley played in Kaleidoscope,which was on the soundtrack to Zabriskie Point,which led me to explore the actors in the movie which I had seen in 1971.
@@k.t.5405 I'm a big admirer of Antonioni and I think he was twice the filmmaker Fellini was. But, for me, this is one of his worst films and the two leading performances really don't help. (Sorry Daria).
@@ppuh6tfrz646 the ending ALONE makes the movie a masterpiece... never mind the incredible directing , photography, screenplay (Sam Sheppard et al.) and awesome portrait of the student movement in the late 60s.
@@k.t.5405 No film can be a masterpiece simply because of its ending. It's well directed and photographed but the only incredible thing about the screenplay is how bad it is.
