Shades and Drumbeats (1964)

Dawn to dusk with a commune of young people on the Lower East Side searching fulfilment through sex and drugsAM one of those remarkable films incensed with the values which man forgets caught in the sedge flats which he calls his streets It is these disowned values that Meyer obstinately and with the greatest of poise works with and surprises his film spectatorThe world of SHADES AND DRUMBEATS has no need for sound for the film frames speak and contain the word the sentence which reveals to the engrossed spectator the spirit of Meyers workGregory Markopoulos in a lecture at Idaho State University 1964