Mail Art Romance (1982)

Mail Art Romance is a documentary about the avant garde poets and artists John M Bennett and C Mehrl Lady C Bennetts courtship through mailart in the late 1970s and early 1980s Shot on 16mm film by John McClintock the film is both a document of the DADA Fluxus related underground mailart movement of the period and a unique testament to the power of true love The film features interviews with both artists as well as their Columbus OH postman reenactments of collaborative poems by the couple examples of their mailart and footage from their July 4th 1980 wedding in rural Mount Vernon Ohio John Also Bennett December 2012