The other standout and unknown to me was a video of a film transfer of James Lee Byers' THe World Question Center from 1969 (?), where a filmmaker documented a performance of this artist cum cult figure with robed encircling entourage as they called up various celebrities, intellects and dignitaries asking them for a question "That they deemed important to their own personal evolution" with varying and mesmerizing results! Ah, the wisdom of the internet filling in the blanks! See below...
"The World Question Center is film by Jef Cornelis that documents a live performance made by the late American artist James Lee Byars (1932-1997), known as the 'magician of silence' for his Zen Buddhist-inspired installations and performances that sought to harness the transitory, ephemeral elements of life. Shot in a Brussels television studio, the film involves Byars, surrounded by a group of men and women dressed in long, white gowns, asking 100 famous people - either present in the studio or by telephone - to pose the most important question about life."
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