From: Beverly O'Neill (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Sep 09 2008 - 19:07:03 PDT
Dear Mark,
What a perfect description of the "half-open and lumpy" gravy that's
oozed across almost every film streaming on Ubu. For a moment this
week I thought the site had disappeared and then found that Ken
Goldsmith had revamped the home page. At least Bruce Conner's work
has been removed from You Tube, thanks to Dominic's efforts --although
a site somewhere in Asia is offers "A Movie" which seems like peering
through a dirty windshield at sunset.
Beverly O'Neill
On Sep 9, 2008, at 4:09 PM, Mark Toscano wrote:
> One of my main criticisms of this aspect of ubu's venture continues
> to be the laziness of the "curating". I had enjoyed their site
> immensely for some time, feeling there was for the most part a
> strong curatorial hand and thoughtfulness behind what they
> presented. But with some exceptions, the film section is just a
> bunch of bullshit-quality videos nabbed off the net with no regard
> to anything - presentation, context, artists' intent, blah blah blah
> everything that's come up on Frameworks before about ubu.
>
> The previously cited example of Surfacing on the Thames is probably
> still the best. It's laughable. That video looks like gravy
> sliding down the screen of a Gameboy, and then rephotographed with a
> cheap webcam.
>
> Furthermore regarding the lack of original thinking or curating
> here, their recent addition of Robert Nelson's 'The Awful Backlash'
> even appropriates a blurb that I jokingly appropriated and edited
> for use in a film festival screening of it and the Canyon catalog.
> So they're presenting a joke blurb as a "real" critical one with no
> other commentary or context. Now that's funny.
>
> Mark T
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> --- On Tue, 9/9/08, Marc Couroux <email suppressed> wrote:
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>> From: Marc Couroux <email suppressed>
>> Subject: [FRAMEWORKS] latest ubu
>> To: email suppressed
>> Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 3:23 PM
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Just to let you know that ubu.com today put up a bunch of
>> Stan
>> VanDerBeek work, which is always hard to get a hold of.
>> Much else of note, as usual, including Yvonne Rainer,
>> Standish Lawder,
>> Hollis Frampton, Paul Sharits, Richard Serra, Joyce Wieland
>> (note
>> spelling)... a veritable treasure trove.
>>
>> http://www.ubu.com/
>>
>> Cheers
>> Marc
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