The Continuing Story of Carel and Ferd (1975)

A fascinating hybrid of performance and video verité The Continuing Story of Carel and Ferd introduces Carel and Ferd a couple who allowed Ginsberg to produce an ongoing documentary record of the intimate moments of their relationship Carel a porn actress and Ferd a drug addict invite the camera to participate in their wedding their sex life and their breakup Produced before the landmark PBS documentary An American Family introduced television audiences to the livein camera and many decades before the ubiquity of reality television this document raises questions about the relationship between subject and camera privacy and manipulation Originally presented as an installation this onehour version which includes interviews with Carel Ferd and Ginsberg was distilled from thirty hours of footage recorded from 1970 to 1975 Electronic Arts Intermix