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Jeffrey Perkins (filmmaker) (1941 - ) filmmaker, multimedia and performance artist and filmmaker, living in New York City. He is also well know for his light projection performances.

Jeffrey Perkins is an artist and film maker living in New York City. Having had a background in the US Airforce and a large stint of time working as an taxi driver which in turn literally became the vehicle for one his most successful works, Jeffrey has gone on to have an extensive career in the arts, which includes well over a hundred solo and group shows at major museums and galleries worldwide, including The Getty Museum, The Centre Pompidou, Daniel Reich Gallery, The 1993 Venice Biennale and The Emily Harvey Foundation. His work is also included in the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection at the Museum of Modern Art. - guerilla docs

The Single Wing Turquoise Bird Light Show Film by SWTB. (1970, 4 min., SD). This is the only record of the original Single Wing Turquoise Bird light show. Shot in 1970, it was featured in the Visual Music Exhibition at Los Angeles MOCA and the Hirshhorn Museum in 2005.

Filmography

 * Sister Midnight by Peter Mays, 16mm; Cast: Kirsten Weimann Lance Richbourg Victoria Bond Jeffrey Perkins Susan Atkins; 1967-74, 65 minutes
 * Fluxfilm No. 22, "Shout", 1966 (Camera: Yoko Ono. With: Jeff Perkins and Anthony Cox]
 * Four (Fluxfilm no. 16) Yoko Ono, 1966 Medium: 16mm film (black and white, silent) Duration: 9:31 min. Cameraman: Jeff Perkins, Anthony Cox Publisher: Fluxus Editions, announced 1966 Produced by: George Maciunas]
 * Facts for Fiction video 96 minutes, Michael Pilz(1966)
 * The Baby Maker (James Bridges, 1970)
 * Dark (1998) Video tape, sound, 4 minuite, directed end edited by Amy Green, camera by allie Patrick and Jeff Perkin, with Francine Breen
 * Single Wing Turquoise Bird Light Show Film dir. SWTB, US, 1971, 16mm, 5 mins, color, sound
 * Los Angeles, Fritz Lang and the Golden Hour (2000)
 * Movies for the Blind (2001)
 * Burt (2005) Video, color (57 min.) A one-shot interview with a friend - a former drug dealer to the stars in Hollywood, CA.
 * The Painter Sam Francis (2009)
 * Out of Our Depth by SWTB. (2010, 34 min., HD; World Premiere). A journey through multiple worlds recorded from live, in-studio improvisation by the resurgent Bird
 * Invisible Writing, ft. live improvisation by Single White Turquoise Bird, 47 minutes, Night Fire Films (2011)DVD
 * Curtis Harrington at Anthology Film Archives DVD Produced by Jeffrey Perkins with Anthology Film Archives, Camera by Jeffrey Perkins (2006)
 * Stan Brakhage on Gregoro Markopolous & Jim Davis DVD Produced by Jeffrey Perkins with Anthology Film Archives, Camera by Jeffrey Perkins (2006)
 * Meet the Kuchar Brothers DVD Produced by Jeffrey Perkins with Anthology Film Archives, Camera by Jeffrey Perkins (2006)

He co-founded and is an active member the psychedelic light show group Single Wing Turquoise Bird, which performed with the Velvet Underground, Yardbirds, Cream, Sly and the Family Stone, and others. Scenes of their shows were included in the feature film The Baby Maker (James Bridges, 1970) began doing light shows to accompany rock concerts at the Shrine Auditorium in LA, but with patronage of painter Sam Francis, evolved into an autonomous performing unit.

The Single Wing Turquoise Bird lightshow troupe worked in Los Angeles and Venice, California. Famous for their wide screen lightshows at the Shrine Exposition Hall in Los Angeles in 1967 and 1968, and later for their series of evocative multimedia performances at various venues, most notably in the Cumberland Mountain Film Company studio in the loft above the Fox Venice Theater (1970 - 1975) where Perkins worked. They did lightshows for The Chambers Brothers, Velvet Underground, Grateful Dead, Big Brother and The Holding Company, Pacific Gas & Electric, Steve Miller Band, Taj Mahal, Dr. John, Sons of Champlin, BB King, The Yardbirds, Pinnacle, Traffic, and Quicksilver Messenger Service

After getting hired as a projectionist, Perkins became manager and programmer (circa 1968), of Cinematheque 16, which had opened in 1966 in a small storefront on the Sunset Strip. he met experimental filmmaker Peter Mays.

He performed in Mays' film SISTER MIDNIGHT

Expanded Cinema by Gene Youngblood (New York: Dutton, 1970), pp. 392-96 ISBN: 9781854379740

As a Fluxus artist he collaborated in the 1960s with George Maciunas, Yoko Ono, Anthony Cox and Alison Knowles, among others. His films from that period include Fluxfilm No. 22, "Shout", 1966 (Camera: Yoko Ono. With: Jeff Perkins and Anthony Cox) and Yoko Ono's underground hit No. 4("Bottoms"), 1966 (Camera: Jeffrey Perkins With: Yoko Ono, Anthony Cox, and others).

Jeff Perkins’ short film "Shout" was created for the 1966 Fluxus Film Festival held at the Cinamatec Theater on West 41st Street in New York. This silent 2 ½ minute film shows a close crop of two men in profile having an argument. Their wild facial expressions break in and out of the camera frame.

Nicknamed "the Fluxus cabdriver" by Nam June Paik, "Movies for the Blind" (based on sound recordings of interviews with passengers in his cab). Part 3 (70 minutes) shown at 8th New York Underground Film Festival, held from March 7–13, 2001. 2001 New York Underground Film Festival

his light projection performances

Cinematography: Jeffrey Perkins, Samantha Bertolotto, Jerry Sohn Editing: Marc Vives Sound: Tom Erbe Original Music: Charles Curtis Production & Distribution: Jeffrey Perkins, Body and Soul Productions (jeffreyperkins@aol.com)

He recently completed a documentary, The Painter Sam Francis, an endeavor that was itself 40 years in the making. Doku.Arts International Festival for Films on Art June 4-8, 2008: The Painter Sam Francis by Jeffrey Perkins. International Festival for Films on Art June 4-8, 2008. Doku.Arts Filmmuseum Amsterdam Vondelpark 3 Postbus 74782 1070 BT Amsterdam The Netherlands T +31 205891469 F +31 206833401

He continues to do performance art, most recently at X-Initiative and Daniel Reich Gallery in New York, and his artwork was most recently on view at Front Desk Apparatus Space in New York.

Sat., Feb. 28, 2009 12:30–2:00 PM Sunday March 1, 2009 12:30-2pm

Film Screening: The Painter Sam Francis Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Ahmanson Auditorium 250 South Grand Avenue Los Angeles, CA

Produced and directed by Jeffrey Perkins, this feature length film portrait of the artist Sam Francis (1923–1994) portrays his entire life course and professional career. The film has been forty years in the making, showing the artist at work in his studios from 1969 to 1992. It also includes interviews with the artist, his family members, art historians, and fellow artists such as Ed Ruscha, James Turrell, Bruce Conner, and others. The film is an intimate portrait of an important artist at work, as well as an intimate personal view as told by the artist himself and those that knew him.

The Painter Sam Francis’ 85 minutes Shot on 16mm, Super 8, Hi-8, DV ©2008 Body and Soul Productions

Shown at Anthology Film Archives, New York, September 1-17, 2009

Single Wing Turquoise Bird Light Show Film dir. SWTB, US, 1971, 16mm, 5 mins, color, sound Friday, May 23 at 7pm 2008 Essential Visual Music: Rare Classics from CVM Archive by Center for Visual Music at International House, Philadephia PA

Film document of light show performance by Peter Mays, Jeffrey Perkins, Michael Scroggins, Jon Greene, Larry Janss and Rol Murrow, including film footage by David Lebrun, Pat O'Neill and John Stehura.

exhibition Fluxus Time: 1959...1969...1979... on Sunday, May 5, from 2-5 pm at Kingsborough Community College Art Gallery 2001 Oriental Boulevard in Brooklyn on May 7th Jeffrey Perkins will give a lecture presentation at 3pm, Room S159 Regular hours: 10-3pm Monday- Friday (April 10 - May 10