From: Steve Polta (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Jan 31 2006 - 11:09:55 PST
A few years ago, with some friends, rented THE FLAMING
CITY from FMC, mostly out of curiousity and interest
in the maker, fluxus artist, theorist, hostorian Dick
Higgins. The film, I'm sad to say, wasn't so hot; one
interesting thing about it was that, as the film went
on (and this film is 121 min. long) the print quality
became markedly better. This was a nice dense colorful
Kodachrome print, prob placed in fmc in the 60s (film
made in 1963) which had considerable scratching a wear
at the beginning but became almost pristine by the
end. The implication being that the fim had been
rented/viewed many times but not so often all the way
through to the end...
steve polta
--- owen <email suppressed> wrote:
> Hi,
> I've show many films rented from the coop. Some were
> screened for the
> first time in 25 years. Looked like new prints.
> Others are sadly
> "revised" by time and wear.
> There are many treasures there.
> See an incomplete list of films shown at The
> Electrical
> Retrospectacle here :
> http://colorbot.com/electrical.html
>
> owen
>
>
>
>
> On Jan 31, 2006, at 12:34 PM, Jeffrey Martin wrote:
>
> > "All these films are from the Filmmakers'
> Cooperative in New York. Who
> > knows what other treasures lie there unrented?"
> >
> > I may be imagining this, but hasn't someone
> curated a screening
> > made up of films from the Filmmaker's Coop that
> > have NEVER been rented? If not, someone should.
> >
> > Jeff Martin
> > Chicago, IL
> >
> >
> >
>
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