{"id":17467,"date":"2020-12-07T12:51:53","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T17:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/?p=17467"},"modified":"2021-05-13T12:26:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T16:26:08","slug":"film-review-docnyc-in-my-own-time-a-portait-of-karen-dalton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/film-review-docnyc-in-my-own-time-a-portait-of-karen-dalton\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Yapkowitz’s & Richard Peete’s Intimate Film Portrait of Karen Dalton"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n“We’ve approached this production with one goal in mind: To introduce Karen\u2019s music to a wider audience”\u2013 Robert Yapkowitz and Richard Peete<\/h2>\n
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Been a long time since this reviewer was mesmerized by a music documentary. Eyes, ears and gut \u2014 the latter the core of my being for processing the conscious and the unconscious \u2013 locked on to IN MY OWN TIME several minutes into the film. I was being swept away in a time warp of a mind-body-soul experience subliminally recalling the good, the bad, the beautiful and the excess of the 60s via a compelling cinematic portrait of an extraordinary artiste.<\/p>\n

I think it was because of her voice. I haven’t had a music-doc bring about a mind-body-soul experience in a long time.<\/p>\n

IN MY OWN TIME is soulfully poignant. The filmmakers fuse selections of contemporary and archival interviews, footage, stills, and audio \u2013 as well as Jordon’s poems and personal journals \u2013 into a narrative that I imagine lots of sexagenarians, septuagenarians and octogenarians may think are best vividly attainable only through favorite hallucinogens. But the filmmakers’ contemporary interviews, such as that of Jordon’s daughter, are also compelling.<\/p>\n

\"Karen<\/p>\n

Audiences should be aware of the following. When I felt look-away-moments getting ready to sure, those bitter-sweet nostalgias about a soul or souls in pain, brought on by stellar filmmaking, I couldn’t look away. There are lots of moments to sigh in this film. The film experience was that moving.<\/p>\n

“Karen Dalton is often championed as one of the most unique and influential folk musicians to come out of the 1960\u2019s Greenwich Village scene.” I grew up in Chicago with blues, jazz, pop and some rock, and became introduced to folk, more rock and other genres when I was a student at Cornell University, there via a basketball scholarship. For example, that’s where Gregg Morris from the South Side of Chicago was introduced to Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and others \u2013 and hooked for life. I knew nothing about Karen Dalton until DOC NYC pitched an offer that I was inadvertently lucky not to refuse.<\/em><\/p>\n