As time passes, Ernie Kovacs is lesser known, but a screening at the Hammer, tied to the publication 'Ernie in Kovacsland,' tries to rectify that.
,” a six-disc DVD survey of his career, still available, “He was a video artist before artists got around to making video,” his deadpan visual punning a forerunner to works by the likes of William Wegman and Bruce Nauman.
“Ernie in Kovacsland,” which takes its title from an early series, will, of course, be of interest mainly to fans, or perhaps just fans of ephemera. It leaves out the sound and motion, naturally, but Kovacs was a writer as well, and the bits and pieces collected here give a good picture of the man, the personality and the artist.
There are movie posters and lobby cards; detailed plans for a record cabinet; three single-spaced typewritten pages correcting the facts in an upcoming magazine piece; and newspaper clippings that follow his progress from community theater to local to national television. A collection of guest essays, some highly informative, some merely personal, includes one by Ron Mael of the
, on the Nairobi Trio — three “musicians” in ape masks, trench coats, wigs and bowler hats solemnly pantomiming, like automatons, to “Solfeggio,” a recurring piece that became Kovacs’ signature.,” the book includes a chunk of “Zoomar,” “a sophisticated novel about love and TV” Kovacs claimed to have written in 13 days; the draft of a piece called “Dreams of an Opus Eater” ; a script for Kovacs’ “Kapusta Kid” sci-fi puppet show ; and the outline for a movie to star his silent character, Eugene.
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