Video: Speed Levitch in the City of Fountains
Special Feature
Timothy "Speed" Levitch, famed New York tour guide featured in Waking Life, School Of Rock, Adult Swim's Stroker and Hoop, and subject of award winning documentary The Cruise, is now living in his hometown of Kansas City. Levitch and director Zac Eubank of Skinless Productions are producing weekly video blogs around Kansas City where Levitch hosts and reels off thoughts on his new love affair with the city.
Levitch and Eubank are sharing the videos as a special feature with PresentMagazine.com. The duo will produce a short film scheduled to be completed near the end of October.
A visitation with the City of Fountains in its post-midnight, post-Armageddon glory, hosted by the tour guide with no sense of direction, Speed Levitch. Directed by Zac Eubank.
Speed Levitch In City Of Fountains from Zac Eubank on Vimeo.
Speed Levitch, The Cruise
Timothy “Speed” Levitch is a tour guide by vocation and a playwright by nature; he performs in life and on stage and screen, a life artist-of-sorts. Levitch’s walking tour guidebook of New York City neighborhoods, entitled Speedology,was published by Context Books in 2002. Recently, he has been building new Speedology tours of San Francisco, Kansas City, a lost neighborhood of Chicago and Los Angeles.
Q. Where are you from?
A. I was created, built, and raised by Kansas Citians. Kansas City is my tribe’s headquarters and I have been, and continue to be, in a consistent ebb and flow in and out of Kansas City. Mostpeople, (e.e cummings invented the word ‘mostpeople’), upon hearing this factoid, immediately ask me, “You’re from Kansas City? Missouri or Kansas?” Well, of course, my favorite thing about Kansas City is that the state line that divides Kansas from Missouri is just another avenue of the city that fits into the grid plan of the city as easily and unnoticeably as any of the other major boulevards of the city. All day long, within the city limits of Kansas City, one may well pass between Missouri and Kansas several times without barely ever noticing it. Kansas City is, therefore, a capital city of boundary-disillusion; a place where the biggest border has almost no signifance or visibility throughout the average day. I love Kansas City because I hate categorization and the reflex that impels human beings to need categories; I love Kansas City because I prefer boundlessness to boundaries.
From the blog, http://speedisms.wordpress.com/about/
Zac Eubank
Skinlessproductions.com
www.myspace.com/skinlessproductions
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