Encyclopedia of the Blessed

" ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BLESSED culminates my involvement with artist Red Grooms and Mimi Gross. It is a diary of our work as we head for the Pacific Ocean in a suicidal plunge for theatrical infamy. The film traces the construction of two craven images made in the likeness of myself by Grooms and Gross. Then it switches to the sandhills of Nebraska where fat cattle walk around. There the film explores Grooms' biggest construction, "The Chicago Installation." The film rolls relentlessly onward to the West Coast showing, for the first time on any screen, a theatrical production we three put in the University of California. It marks my directorial debut on the stage and Red Grooms' comeback after ten years of exile from live theatre." - George Kuchar

Bocko

The Dog

Floraine Connors

Bob Cowan

Red Grooms

Mimi Gross

Donna Kerness

George Kuchar

Frances Leibowitz

Larry Leibowitz

Hope Morris

• George KucharDirector

Release date

January 1, 1968

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

43m