Sunday, April 25, 2021

J.B. Lenoir - "Grandma's Advice/Farmors Råd" - 1965

 From the original half hour 16mm b/w film made by Steve and Ronnog Seaberg and Marshall Matson featuring blues musician, J.B. Lenoir, playing and singing "Grandma's Advice" in his living room on Dante Street on Chicago's South Side. Meant for swedissh television writer Ronnog Seaberg translates it into Swedish. The film was never used in Sweden and remained in the Seaberg's home for almost forty years until it was used by Wim Wenders' in The Soul of a Man in 2003. It was finally shown in Sweden at the Gothenburg Film Festival in January 2004. The New Yorker called it "the film within the film".