From: Lawrence Daressa (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Apr 02 2009 - 09:13:23 PDT
Dear Sara,
Here's an odd one from Newsreel's disreputable past. "The Steelworkers,"
a two hour long, black and white cinemascope epic from North Korea!
Every fifteen minutes the eponymous steelworkers break into song singing
the praises of Kim Il Sung, the brutal dictator whose son now runs North
Korea. Speaking of dictators, you probably know Stalin means "Man of
Steel;" I think Wajda's film's use of the name must have been ironic.
Two documentaries from Newsreel not worth watching except for the steel
footage - "The Business of America..." and "Struggles in Steel," both
set in Pittsburgh.
Larry
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From: Experimental Film Discussion List
[mailto:email suppressed] On Behalf Of Chris Kennedy
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 8:49 AM
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Subject: Re: Steel Films
You maybe know Richard Serra's films, available through MOMA.
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> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Sara Sullivan <email suppressed>
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>> Dear frameworkers:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Thanks so much,
>>
>> Sara Gooch
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