From: Francisco Torres (email suppressed)
Date: Sun May 13 2007 - 20:30:47 PDT
"And time-code? I'm not even sure what
that is - it sounds like an industry or term".
John.
Ah! The joy of living in the post digital age! To never had witnessed
the dreaded scroll of Time Code! To had never seen a CMX(tm) EDL! Lo!
I salute you, children of FireWire!
On 5/11/07, john porter <email suppressed> wrote:
> Thanks Rob,
> Well the Real History's "blank screen lit by a single
> bulb" was the only part that sounded like a joke, but
> it sounds more do-able and therefore more likely, than
> a show of holes. And time-code? I'm not even sure what
> that is - it sounds like an industry or term.
> John.
>
> --- Rob Gawthrop <email suppressed> wrote:
>
> > What a conincidence.
> > There is a touring show being planned "Invisible
> > Cities" featuring
> > work composed solely of sprocket holes and
> > time-code. This will play
> > at all those venues in the UK (outside of London)
> > that have featured
> > so prominently in David Curtis's book.
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > On 11 May 2007, at 06:23, john porter wrote:
> >
> > > 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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> > >
> >
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> > >
> >
> >
> >
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>
>
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