JUXTAPOSITIONS

This weekend, at a Brookline deli, I ran into Alfred Guzzetti, noted documentary filmmaker and one of the pioneers of personal documentary. I was with Gary Marino, whose MILLION CALORIE MARCH, the story of his battle against obesity, on which I am working, is an entirely different kind of personal documentary. Alfred is head of Harvard's filmmaking program amd has had a film, PICTURES FROM A REVOUTION, shown in the New York Film Festival. Gary is head of Harmon-Marino Entertainment, a company that provides entertainment and develops media presentations for corporate events.

The deli is across the street from the Coolidge, where in my visits, along with those to Kendall Square, I run into more film community people and fillm buffs than I do at the seasnal networking events that are sponsored by Imagine or High Output. At that same deli, I've also run into Ross McElwee and Robb Moss, two award winning documentarians themseves and also members of the Harvard fim faculty.

Gary didn't meet Alfred, and other than such chance meetings, there's little opportunity for that to happen. But I would like to hear what the two men might have to say to one another. Perhaps nothing, but now that the old Boston FilmVideo Foundation is gone, there is no other place or organizatin to make that possible.