From: Freya (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Jan 08 2008 - 13:29:39 PST
Thanks so much Bill!
Yeah I've been reading this book but must have
largely forgotten about the stuff on 36-37. Annoying
as there is a little mini-history there. (Wake up
Freya!) With the information on that page I've managed
to track down the group who seem to still exist too!
So I'm going to try contacting them! :)
I already wrote to David too, so maybe he will come
up with some more info too.
Excellent! :)
love
Freya
--- "William Wees, Dr." <email suppressed>
wrote:
> David Curtis's new book "A History of Artists' Film
> and Video in Britain" (BFI, 2007) includes some
> information on pp. 36-37, 70 and 71. And you might
> try contacting Curtis directly (sorry, I don't have
> his email address).
>
> --Bill Wees
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Experimental Film Discussion List on behalf of
> Freya
> Sent: Tue 1/8/2008 12:41 PM
> To: email suppressed
> Subject: Circles and St Jude
>
> I'm presently working on my dissertation which I now
> have less than a week to write! Yay! ;)
>
> While reasearching I have frequently come across
> referances to "circles". The group is mentioned a
> few
> times in the David Curtis book "A history of..." and
> I've just opened the Peter Gidal book "Materialist
> Film" for the first time and seen a referance there
> too.
>
> From what I can tell neither book seems to have any
> details about the group and so far I havn't managed
> to
> find any information. Does anyone here know more,
> either suggested books where I might read about the
> group or even personal experiences of anyone who
> knew
> anything about the group, or even failing that if
> anyone who knows of someone who might have been
> involved who I could contact briefly to chat about
> it?
>
> Perhaps if anyone even knows how I could contact Lis
> Rhodes who was apparently a founder according to the
> Lux website?
>
> Any information would be welcome. I know virtually
> nothing about the group, including even if it is
> still
> going or if not what happened to it. It's intresting
> because I knew quite a bit about the film co-op and
> even a tiny bit about the free cinema movement but
> I'd
> not even heard about circles till it was mentioned
> in
> these books.
>
> I've come across some amazing and wonderful books in
> my reasearch and will be telling you more about them
> soon when I have a bit of a moment (er now is not a
> good time!) ;) but if I had one big criticism of the
> David Curtis book (which I'm loving actually!) it's
> that it seems to stress the importance of circles a
> few times but then doesn't really tell us anything
> about it or its history.
>
> Also if it's not being too greedy, if anyone wants
> to
> tell me more about London Video Arts, I'd love to
> hear
> about it. I know a little but would love to know
> more!
> That's less important tho, although I guess it might
> also be useful but I'm mostly just really, really
> curious about it. ;)
>
> Hope someone can help in any way. I might just not
> be
> looking in the right places!
>
> love
>
> Freya
>
>
>
>
>
>
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