The film "Primiti Too Taa" is at the intersection of many forms.  It is a playful Concrete poem.  A literal choreography.  It is primitive sounds meeting their typed representation.  The film is in memory of Kurt Schwitters.  The film follows in the footsteps of Kurt Schwitters, with an influence of Norman Mclaren in its animated presentation.

Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948), a German painter, sculptor, collage artist and writer, was a friend and colleague of many daddaists, constructivist, and surrealists and was considered a forerunner by the pop artists of a later generation.  It was in 1920, while on a performance tour of Central Europe, that Schwitters discovered the unique energy of sound poetry in a work by Raoul Hausmann called "fumsbw".  Acknowledging the influence of his friend Hausmann, Schwitters began his own major sound poem with the same letters.  Over the next decade, though, he expanded the work through innumerable performances into an elaborately structured"Sonata for Primitive Sounds" ("Ur-sonate"), a tour-de-force for solo spoken voice lasting over forty minutes.

        In 1943, while in exile in England, Schwitters performed his "Ur-sonate" at a London Gallery.  A BBC crew began to record the recital, but halfway through they packed up their equipment and left.  The incident typlified, for Schwitters, the barren artistic milieu he found in England at the time.

        Many years after Schwitters' death  - in 1984 in Ottawa, Canada- Colin Morton took up the artistic life and work as the subject for a book of poetry called The Merzbook,  published by Quarry Press in April, 1987.Primiti Too Taa", which appears in The Merzbook as a visual poem, is Colin Morton's improvisation on the themes of Schwitters' "Sonata in Primitive Sounds".  The film version "Primiti Too Taa is animated by Ed Ackerman on an Underwood typewriter.

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