Produced by Reel Time Images & Magicana
Directed by Daniel Zuckerbrot
"Call To The Colors" is described in Bill Simon's Effective Card Magic (Louis Tannen, 1952).
A concert of sleight-of-hand—Bach’s Goldberg Variations meets Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3—conceived as a macabre fantasy, performed by David Ben, one of the world’s foremost practitioners of card table artifice, as a tribute to his late friend, the renowned adventurer and tribal art collector, Billy Jamieson, and his collection of artifacts documenting human humiliation and cruelty.
The work also includes a post-modern explanation of the sleight-of-hand technique employed in the film, demonstrating that, in the end, there is little difference between fantasy and reality. Learn more about the making of this film in our exhibition: The Devil’s Playthings.
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David Ben takes you on a tour through Illusions: The Art of Magic at the McCord Museum 2017
Produced by Reel Time Images & Magicana
Directed by Daniel Zuckerbrot
"Call To The Colors" is described in Bill Simon's Effective Card Magic (Louis Tannen, 1952).
This documentary from 1999 was produced to explore the life and magic of Dai Vernon (David Frederick Wingfield Verner, 1894-1992), the most influential magician of the twentieth century—possibly of all time.
Directed by Daniel Zuckerbrot. Narrated by Patrick Watson.