Re: Steel Films

From: James Cole (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Apr 02 2009 - 09:48:00 PDT


Certainly one of the best is Frampton's Winter Solstice, and the
accompanying piece, Matrix. I remember Matrix, in particular, as being a
really dizzying experience.

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Lawrence Daressa <email suppressed> wrote:

> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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.
>
> >
> > 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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