Mail Art Romance 1982

Overview

Mail Art Romance is a documentary about the avant garde poets and artists John M. Bennett and C. Mehrl ("Lady C") Bennett's courtship through mail-art in the late 1970's and early 1980s. Shot on 16mm film by John McClintock, the film is both a document of the DADA / Fluxus related underground mail-art 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 post-man, reenactments of collaborative poem