The Last Clean Shirt (1964) Alfred Leslie Frank O Hara

In a letter to his friend and collaborator, the poet Frank OHara, Leslie writes: We will shoot for two SEPERATE LEVELS on the film. One is the VISUAL, the other the HEARD the spectator will be in TWO places or more SIMULTANEOUSLY. NOT AS MEMORY BUT AT THE SAME MOMENT. PARALLELISM MULTIPLE POINTS OF VIEW It is a blueprint for The Last Clean Shirt in which a man and a woman take a car ride through the streets of downtown Manhattan. A clock on the dashboard foregrounds the fact that the film is a single shot. The woman speaks in Finnish jibberish, interpreted by the beautiful and brilliant story told via OHaras subtitles that run throughout.