From: Nicky Hamlyn (email suppressed)
Date: Fri May 11 2007 - 02:25:20 PDT
Maybe "Bill Brown" can answer that for you!
Nicky.
john porter writes:
> Thanks Nicky,
> It all sounds very serious to me, but you're there and
> I'm not.
> I'm not too proud to ask: where's the clue that it's
> all a joke? Is it obvious, or a UK in-joke, or a
> Frameworks in-joke?
> I guess I don't know enough about either the real or
> the unreal history.
> Is there a Bill Brown? Do you know him?
> John.
>
> --- Nicholas Hamlyn <email suppressed>
> wrote:
>
>> That's cos he's "joking".
>>
>> On 10 May 2007, at 17:55, john porter wrote:
>>
>> > Thanks Bill,
>> > Any deatails online? I couldn't find Thin Air
>> Films.
>> > John.
>> >
>> > --- Bill Brown <email suppressed> wrote:
>> >
>> >> To coincide with the publication of David
>> Curtis’s A
>> >> History of Artist Film & Video in Britain, TAF
>> (Thin
>> >> Air Films) will be staging a one-day conference
>> and
>> >> associated screening. The conference will examine
>> >> the
>> >> trajectory of post war funding for artist
>> >> experimental
>> >> film & video in the UK and in particular will
>> look
>> >> at
>> >> Arts Council funding under the direction of David
>> >> Curtis and how through careful stage management
>> >> funds
>> >> were restricted to a small number of filmmakers
>> and
>> >> denied to many more. Key speakers will examine
>> how
>> >> following the setting up of the London Film
>> makers
>> >> Co-op and London Video Arts, the funding, making
>> and
>> >> distribution of avant-garde films and videos in
>> the
>> >> UK
>> >> was effectively controlled for a generation by a
>> >> small
>> >> London based group of men. How this same group
>> >> dominated experimental film & video in the UK for
>> >> the
>> >> next 40 years both by denying funding and access
>> to
>> >> anyone outside the group (through overt and
>> covert
>> >> censorship) but also through controlling non
>> >> mainstream film education at institutions such as
>> >> the
>> >> Royal College. The conference will also examine
>> how
>> >> written debate and discourse on experimental film
>> &
>> >> video in publications such as Undercut was
>> >> restricted
>> >> to the same small group and finally how this
>> group
>> >> as
>> >> it nears retirement now seeks to enshrine its
>> >> position
>> >> for posterity by the publication of numerous
>> >> histories
>> >> of experimental film & video.
>> >>
>> >> The screening entitled All The Films That Were
>> Never
>> >> Funded will not include seminal works by Peter
>> >> Gidal,
>> >> Malcolm LeGrice, Guy Sherwin. John Smith or any
>> of
>> >> the
>> >> other filmmakers whose work has been funded and
>> >> promoted by Curtis but will feature instead a
>> blank
>> >> screen lit by a single bulb in honour of all that
>> >> films that were never funded and all the
>> creativity
>> >> that was suppressed.
>> >>
>> >> Conference to be held at the North Bank Centre on
>> >> May
>> >> the 16th 2007.
>
> John Porter, Toronto, Canada
> http://www.super8porter.ca/
> email suppressed
>
>
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