From: Kathryn MacKay (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Dec 09 2008 - 11:17:26 PST
You are mistaken, Brakhage is shooting 16mm in the doc.
On 9-Dec-08, at 12:04 PM, Steve Polta wrote:
> Some of Brakhage's other films were shot in Super-8 and
> blown-up/completed in 16mm (i.e. there is no s-8 original), for
> example the little-discussed UNCONSCIOUS LONDON STRATA (which, in my
> opinion, is a neglected masterpiece). I am also of the belief that
> some, if not much, of the material comprising the ARABIC NUMERAL
> SERIES may be small gauge originally, but this is purely my personal
> deduction based on the look of the films and not anything anyone has
> told me.
>
> Jim Shedden's Brakhage doc seems to show him shooting Super-8 quite a
> bit, or perhaps I am mistaken.
>
> Of course, I would be quite pleased if Marilyn Brakhage and/or Mark
> Toscano would clarify these points.
>
> Steve Polta
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> --- On Tue, 12/9/08, Fred Camper <email suppressed> wrote:
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>> From: Fred Camper <email suppressed>
>> Subject: Re: Brakhage in 8mm (was: Film print as collectible (?))
>> To: email suppressed
>> Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 7:07 AM
>> The "Songs," originally made and released in
>> standard-8mm, were sold
>> starting in the mid-1960s for as little as $10 or $15 each.
>> There were
>> also ten super-8 films released in 1976. Neither is
>> available in new 8mm
>> prints anymore, but as 16mm blowups.
>>
>> Brakhage said at the time that his model was a fine art
>> book or
>> classical music recording. He did want people to see the
>> films at home.
>> And the "Songs" in particular are in general
>> better in 8mm and on small
>> screen than in 16mm, in my view.
>>
>> Fred Camper
>> Chicago
>>
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