Slab City: Reel 003

This clip documents our first meeting with Leonard Knight. In the clip he talks about his ideas for creating Salvation Mountain and how long he works each day. He is 57 years old and hard at work on his first mountain in this interview. In this clip we see Leonard discuss his relationship with the other folks at the Slabs. Leonard also told us about his early creations including his hot-air balloon and how he prayed before creating his mountain. Shows him at work on his first mountain (hand held camera); Also Leonard with wheelbarrow and his problems at Slab City; his time at the High-Line Cafe. He describes and demonstrates his technique for building Salvation Mountain.

• June, 1989

• Durbin, Greg
• George, Sherman

videotape; 21 minutes, 55 seconds

• Niland, Imperial, California, United States
• Salton Sea, California, United States

• Documentaries
• Video recordings

• Knight, Leonard, 1931-

• Adobe (material)
• Alternative lifestyles
• Campgrounds
• Camping trailers
• Concrete slabs
• Construction (assembling)
• Deserts
• Earthworks (sculpture)
• Foundations (structural elements)
• House paint
• Interviews
• Landscapes (environments)
• Military camps
• Mountains
• Mud-plaster
• Outsider art
• Painting (coating)
• Panoramas
• Religious art
• Roads
• Ruins
• Salvation Mountain
• Sculpture (visual work)
• Telephoto lenses
• Wind (weather-related phenomena)

Point: 33.257928,-115.462354

• video

• English

Shared Shelf: 3513222

Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art

Humanities and Social Sciences

• Greg Durbin
• Sherman George

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2021-09-29