Re: Conceptual movies

From: Ryan Marino (email suppressed)
Date: Fri May 18 2007 - 09:18:55 PDT


I see that Robert Smithson was mentioned, I think a large portion of Smithson's work may be of interest to you. Smithson did in fact make several films, most notable is the Spiral Jetty film.

-Ryan

joe beres <email suppressed> wrote: I would consider some of Luis Recoder's work. I don't know if he has
ever considered the possibility of some of his more performative work
screening without his presence (Glass: Liquid Light, in which water is
sprayed on the booth glass to while projecting white light from the
projector certainly comes to mind), but they could possibly exist as a
set of instructions.

joe

Brett Kashmere wrote:
> Hey Michael,
>
> Do you know about Louise Lawler's project, "A Movie Without the
> Picture," presented at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica in 1979? I
> think she didn't screen "The Misfits."
>
> Also, there's the Robert Smithson drawing "Toward the Development of a
> Cinema Cavern," from 1971.
>
> Brett Kashmere
> Syracuse, NY
>
>
> */Michael Betancourt /* wrote:
>
> I'm doing some research into "films" that exist only as sets of
> instructions or declarations (nothing to actually watch) that
> belong to the same history/tradition/whatever you want to call it
> as conceptual art and the new music (such as La Monte Young's
> instruction pieces). I know of a number of things that border on
> this type of work, but still have a physical component.
>
> I have a copy of "This Book is a Movie" from the 70s
>
> Things like "Total Static Takeover" (Scott Arford ) are also of
> interest.
>
>
> Michael Betancourt
> Sioux City, IA USA
>
> www.michaelbetancourt.com
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