Re: Steel Films

From: Jonathan M Hall (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Apr 02 2009 - 08:41:24 PDT


How about TSUKAMOTO Shin'ya's TETSUO: IRON MAN (1988, 16 mm)?

Steel fighting steel; steel inserted under flesh.
Influenced by B-grade American horror films.

Jonathan M Hall

On 3 Apr 2009, at 00:07, rebecca meyers wrote:

> RHAPSODY OF STEEL (1959), Carl Urbano is great. It's animated.
>
> Also, Hollis Frampton's WINTER SOLSTICE, shot, I believe, in a
> steel mill.
>
> Rebecca
>
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Sara Sullivan <email suppressed>
> wrote:
> Dear frameworkers:
>
> I've always enjoyed the "films about..." challenges and their
> responses. I've got one now. I'm starting a project on the
> spectacles of steel working in film - the mills, furnaces, ingots,
> slag etc.
>
> I have a pretty good sense of some canonical examples: Industrial
> Britain, Iven's Komosol, Vertov's Enthusiasm - but I'm sure there's
> wonderful experimental films/documentaries that I don't know.
>
> Mainstream films are helpful too, but I've got T2.
>
> Thanks so much,
>
> Sara Gooch
>
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