Carter Haskins

Arriflesh

Arriflesh is a diary film recording a period I spent, very much at loose ends, dividing my time between Vermont and New York City. During those months I was also filming Horseflesh, so they are companion films. Various friends filled my universe in that confused, interim period: Cindy Revel, Margery Cohen, Tony Heath, and a bearded neighbor who was perpetually collecting scrap wood and who eventually made me a very complete astrological chart. In imitation of Jack Kerouac’s Ray Smith in The Dharma Bums, I would walk up into the snowy hills every afternoon to meditate alone among the trees, with the same results as Kerouac…nada and a sense of the stony muteness of nature. This whole period was colored by memories of a teenage cousin who’d shot himself in a house just a few miles away, two years before. Like my bearded neighbor I was collecting scraps in the hope that they would someday come together into a cohesive whole.

Released 1974, digitally restored March 18th, 2026
11 minutes, color and black & white, silent, 16mm
Finished in 2112×1584 resolution at 24 fps
1.33:1
Directed by Peter von Ziegesar
With Cindy Revelle, Peter von Ziegesar, Marge Cohen, and Tony Heath