Five Situations for Camera, Recorder and People ( Alex Prisadsky, 1965)

A UCLA Workshop Production by Alex Prisadsky. A surrealistic montage of scenes that escalate to ever more violent forms of male behavior. Alex Prisadsky has written about fellow UCLA student Jim Morrison s involvement in the film: Before the shooting of Five Situations, I asked all my crew, along with my friends who were in it, to wear dark suits. Morrison was the only one on the crew who didn t have one, which was one of the reasons I asked him to be the sound man. The other was that I had seen he had a feeling for sound. He had used some outtakes from someone else s film, some aerial shots I think, and placed various sounds over them: some Bach, and then some thunder. Each transformed the image into something new and mysterious. After another student s audio mix session, Jim once said, Maybe I should be in radio instead of