From: Rob Gawthrop (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Oct 20 2008 - 08:58:35 PDT
Futurist Cinema:
Vita Futurists
Perfido incanto
Il mio cadavere
Thais (Les possédés) - this may be preseved
(1916)
and others?
On 20/10/08 15:50, "Bruce Checefsky" <email suppressed> wrote:
> Stefan and Franciszka Themerson films APTEKA (1930) and MOMENT MUSICAL (1933)
> were lost or destroyed. Both titles were experimental photogram films.
>
> Bruce Checefsky
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> From: Experimental Film Discussion List [email suppressed] On
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> Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 5:33 PM
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> Subject: Re: Lost Films
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> Two of Hollis Frampton's earliest films were reported lost: he left
> _Clouds Like White Sheep_ (1962) on the New York subway and the lab
> lost _Obelisk Ampersand Encounter_ (1965). His accounts of these
> losses vary from interview to interview, but one account is in Scott
> MacDonald's A Critical Cinema, vol. 1, pp 26-27.
>
> Mike Zryd
> On 16-Oct-08, at 4:43 AM, Christiane Gruen wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I am writing on behalf of the 'Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für
>> Film und Fernsehen in Berlin', where we are currently preparing
>> 'Lost Films', a web-based project that aims to provide a common
>> platform for users to share information concerning films known or
>> believed to be lost.
>>
>> The project went into operation in June last year, and will finish
>> in November, when the 'Lost Films' website officially goes online.
>> The first stage was a Wiki (http://www.lost-films.eu), that was
>> used to gather initial titles. Around 400 titles were submitted by
>> various specialists, from which 35 were then selected to launch the
>> new database.
>>
>> We are currently gathering, selecting and digitising documents
>> (scripts, stills, posters, press items, music scores, and film
>> clips, etc.) to illustrate the 35 chosen titles. At the same time,
>> we are inputting basic information concerning other lost films
>> compiled from various sources, to provide potential users with a
>> starting point for contributing knowledge and documents of their
>> own in future. Presently we have over 1300 titles.
>>
>> The entries mostly concentrate on narrative film. However, we would
>> very much like to expand our current entries to include more
>> experimental films.
>>
>> So if anybody knows of any experimental films, which are believed
>> lost, please post to the list or get in touch with us at the email
>> addresses listed below.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> The 'Lost Films' team
>> Jürgen Keiper (email suppressed), Christiane Grün
>> (email suppressed), Oliver Hanley ((address suppressed)-
>> kinemathek.de)
>>
>>
>> 'Lost Films' is a collaboration between the Deutsche Kinemathek,
>> the Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv, the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung,
>> the centre nationale de la cinematographie, Filmarchiv Austria and
>> the Narodni Filmovy Archiv (Czech National Film Archive). It is
>> financed by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural
>> Organisation).
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