ALICE SMITH

“I Put A Spell On You”

Kahlil Joseph said Alice Smith did this for no money (see below). In keeping with the U.K. Intellectual Property Office’s “Details of the exceptions to copyright that allow limited use of copyright works without the permission of the copyright owner,” in particular the section which states that “Fair dealing for criticism, review or quotation is allowed for any type of copyright work.” and which is to be found here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/exception… – I have posted it here for my own review (see below) and for public review and in the public interest made apparent by the self-evident artistry of the work. This posting is limited to free viewing for the above purposes only. It not monetized in any way. This film is also available for unlimited free public viewing at http://alicesmith.com/ Kahlil Joseph: “I have a pure obsession with Alice Smith. A lot of people do. When she sings, especially live, she goes places very few people I’ve ever seen live can create . . . there’s a lot of pain and soul in her songs . . . it’s formed by everything (that’s happened in the last 400 hundred years or so*) . . . a kind of a cry, it feels like a cry . . .” See ‘Kahlil Joseph & Arthur Jafa: In Conversation | Tate Talks’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otPEC… (at one hour and three minutes in). In ‘Kahlil Joseph & Arthur Jafa: In Conversation | Tate Talks’ Kahlil Joseph notes the oddity of her lack of fame and her “odd beauty” and then effectively explains both oddities when he says that Alice was willing to show up for a couple of days of filming for no money, and that he ‘shot a ton of shit’ and whittled it down to this one performance. Maybe fame and the other kind of beauty have to be paid for by selling out . . . which Alice could easily have done with Epic/Sony, but scrupulously declined. If only we could see the rest of that ton of shit . . .