Avocada
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N.B. Optional sound: "Play any recording of ethnic Peruvian folk music."–B.V.
"...a study of high-art writhing. Carole Morell writhes as if she were born to writhe in movies; writhes like a movie star among flickering candles and smouldering camera movement. (AVOCADA) is steeped in blue green shadows. It is incomparable and nutritiously beautiful. It is a film possessed of gilded glamour"–Jack Smith.
"Bill Vehr is making a magnificent entrance into cinema... His movie took the Cinematheque's audience with its beauty–flamboyant, delicate, and erotic, and a little bit like Jack Smith's, perverted that is to say... Vehr's world has been inherited from the famous Marquis, born of the fruits of decadence."–Jonas Mekas, The Village Voice.
"...begins electrifyingly, forcefully, with a grandiose and exotic sexual phantasm, builds up with delicious visual taste, to a towering cetner, and then brusquely ends."–Ronald Tavel.
(This film has been restored and returned to rental distribution with assistance from the New York Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film Festival, Stuart Sherman, the estate of Bill Vehr, Du Art Film Laboratories Inc., and the New York State Council on the Arts.)