Harold Louis "Doc" Humes (1926-1992)
Novelist, Educator, Hipster, Healer, Talker
The Doc Humes Institute a home for wayward ideas
The Doc Humes Institute a home for wayward ideas
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selections from reviews of "Doc," the new feature documentary
"Scientist,
novelist, activist, inventor, filmmaker, architect, prophet, healer and madman
Harold L. 'Doc' Humes was, by all accounts, an exhilarating, infuriating and terrifyingly brilliant man.
His Oscar-nominated documentarian daughter Immy Humes has gathered testimonials from luminaries
including Norman Mailer, William Styron and Timothy
Leary, who experienced his erratic genius firsthand, and has skillfully
interwoven them with archival footage into 'Doc.' Fascinating, wryly distanced
docu... at Gotham's Film Forum, will likely get
increased play with the upcoming reissue of H.L. Humes' once lavishly lauded,
long out-of-print novels....
Casual footage from the era captures the excitement of liberation and the headiness of artistic ferment.... Immy imaginatively segues from unexpected angles, mapping out the complex historical, cultural and personal synapses that link the man to his times....Tech credits are first-rate, including inventive editing and Zev Katz's jazz-laced score." – Ronnie Scheib, Variety
Casual footage from the era captures the excitement of liberation and the headiness of artistic ferment.... Immy imaginatively segues from unexpected angles, mapping out the complex historical, cultural and personal synapses that link the man to his times....Tech credits are first-rate, including inventive editing and Zev Katz's jazz-laced score." – Ronnie Scheib, Variety
Absorbing! Could have been subtitled Portrait of the Artist as a
Madman… Doc emerges as a quintessential countercultural figure,
embodying both the exuberance and the excesses of the times. More
poignantly, Immy Humes finds redemption for the father who was often
too preoccupied or too sick to tend to his family.” – Tom Beer, Time Out NY
“(A) lively and loving documentary!” – V.A. Musetto, New York Post
– Elizabeth Bachner, Film-Forward
“An engaging time capsule of ‘60s downtown subversive culture.” – Lisa Rosman, Flavorpill
“An
exquisite example of a real life story given newfound dimension through
a playful, scattershot montage… glued together by the film’s delectable
soundtrack choices. The stylistic success here is so great that it’s
easy to lose sight of the film’s central figure, a brilliant and
inventive figure with a mind as divergent and curious as the
construction of the film itself… By so expertly meshing subject and
approach, DOC achieves that rare case of a person truly given new life
on the silver screen.” – Rob Humanick, SlantNorman Mailer make it an invaluable record of one magnetic man’s historical footprint.”
– New York Magazine
The New York Times about Doc, his novels, and the film
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