If I Scratch I Write by Kon Petrochuck
Sunday, February 21, 1982, 8:00 pm
If I Scratch I Write
Kon Petrochuck in person
San Francisco filmmaker, Kon Petrochuk, spent several years in Cleveland working on this project which started out as a 15 minute film and ended up as a feature length documentary of the poet d.a. levy of whom Gary Snyder has written, “…I feel brother to levy not only as poet but as fellow-worker in the Buddha-fields. levy had a remarkable karma: he saw who he was; where he was, what his field of activity was, and what his tools were to be.”
d.a. levy, who spelled his name without capitals, was a painter, poet and small pressman, He was internationally known for his outspoken, caustic insights and the determination to make “art” come first.
If I Scratch I Write presents a portrait that is both document and experience. It combines interviews and readings of levy’s work with significant locations and graphics to form a unique collage similar to levy’s style.