Nicknamed “the Fluxus cabdriver” by Nam June Paik, Jeffrey Perkins is an artist and filmmaker who has worked in relative obscurity for over five decades. Perkins co-founded the multi media group The Single Wing Turquoise Bird, which was the premier rock and roll concert light show in the Sixties. Until recently he was best known for his light projection performances and his Movies for the Blind, based on sound recordings of interviews with passengers in his cab. He completed the feature documentary portrait of The Painter Sam Francis in 2008. Other films of his hand are Stan Brakhage on Gregory Marcopolous, Meet the Kuchar Brothers & Curtis Harrington. Jeff Perkins has been associated with Anthology Film Archives in New York since 1986.
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