Journals
A couple of years ago I met Professor Clare Brant, she was asked by Kings College London Special Books Collection to give a talk at the opening of my diary exhibition held in The Maugham Library last year in 2024. When we were getting to know each other she asked me about my different projects and I mentioned that I dance Argentine tango.
I also spoke about queer tango, she was interested and said if I write a 3,000 word essay she was pretty sure she could get it published. So I started to write and it was an inspiring experience. The European Journal of Life Writing, University of Groningen, liked my essay and it was published in December 2024. My follow up sequel will be published later this year and I have discovered that writing will be part of my work for the rest of my life.
This journal page will include published writing by academics who are writing either about my work or the work of my parents, whose archive consisting of programmes, photographs, correspondence, pre-production, film production, film distribution and exhibition worldwide in the radical and art film world from the mid-1950s to the 2010s was acquired by Kings College London Archives.
Anne Chassagnol, Caroline Marie, Katie Sambrook and Dylan Jonas Stone
In conversation with Katie Sambrook, Head of Special Collections & Engagement, King’s College London, and Dylan Jonas Stone, Artist and Collector.
Dylan Jonas Stone
In ‘Queer Tango’, Dylan Jonas Stone reflects on learning the art of tango and its dancing movements, alternating between steps into the past and into the present, in ways reflecting the memory work of diary writing, reading and re-reading. For Dylan, the intimacy of tango expresses - and sometimes confounds - expectations around sexualities.
Miguel Fernández Labayen, John Sundholm
Miguel Fernández Labayen and John Sundholm were writing a book about radical film and film festivals in the 1960s. Both Miguel and John are film academics and saw my parents’ names Barbara and David Stone as producers, distributers and exhibitors, connected to filmmakers Jonas Mekas, Jerome Hill, Stan Brakhage, Gregory Markopoulos, Jack Smith, Robert Kramer and The Living Theatre, Kenneth Anger and Robert Frank.
They contacted me to see if I could help them source images for their book. I told them about my parents archive at Kings College London Archive and they came to London for a week to spend time looking through my parents’ archive of posters, letters, programmes, photographs, articles, magazines from the late 1950s to the 2000s.
There was so much material they could use that my parents’ immense collection of documents relating to radical filmmaking in the 1960s became the basis of their book.