From: Jonathan Walley (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Mar 21 2009 - 06:59:38 PDT
Thanks to everyone who suggested sources of information on the
Lettrists and Peter Weibel - all very helpful.
Best,
Jonathan
Jonathan Walley
Assistant Professor
Department of Cinema
Denison University
Granville, Ohio
email suppressed
On Mar 21, 2009, at 7:40 AM, Esperanza Collado wrote:
> Jonathan,
>
> I just remembered that Stewart Hall wrote a book titled The Assault
> on Culture which includes two chapters about Lettrism -not Lettrist
> cinema, but Lettrism in general. This book is entirely on the
> internet.
>
> http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/ass/letmove.htm
>
> Best,
>
> e.
>
> 2009/3/20 Marcos Ortega <email suppressed>
> Hi, Jonathan
>
> On the Lettrist texts there are some works publsihed in english, but
> I would refer you first to the 'Lettriste pages':
>
> http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/lettrist/lettrist.htm
>
> and to the Debord/Wolman discurssion 'Why Lettrism'
>
> http://www.unpopular.org.uk/lettrism/whylettrism.html
>
> Best,
>
> Marcos
> http://www.expcinema.com
>
>
>
> Quoting Jonathan Walley <email suppressed>:
>
> Hello all,
>
> Over a year ago, there was a thread on Frameworks called "Conceptual
> Movies," about works identified as "films" that existed only as sets
> of
> instructions, declarations, or ideas. That is, "films" that were
> unrealized or, more to the point, never meant to be realized (i.e. in
> the film medium). Several frameworkers mentioned the Lettrists, and
> referenced some texts in French. Can anyone recommend good readings on
> these works, in English?
>
> Along similar lines, can anyone recommend good readings on related
> work
> by Peter Weibel?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jonathan
>
> Jonathan Walley
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Cinema
> Denison University
> Granville, Ohio
> email suppressed
>
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