From: Jesse McLean (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Apr 04 2009 - 20:38:32 PDT
There's a film just called "Pittsburgh" that was shot by several people, I believe Stan Brakhage contributed footage but under an alias? The film was made for the city's 200th anniversary. I'm not sure how available it is but Pittsburgh Filmmakers has a copy, they were showing it again this past year for the 250th anniversary. There is certainly a lot of great steel mill footage in it.
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 16:25:07 -0400
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Subject: Re: Steel Films
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Matrix is an amazing film, a superimposition of Frampton's three completed films for the Solstices and Equinoxes in _Magellan_: Autumnal Equinox (steel mill), Summer Solstice (cows), and Winter Solstice (abattoir); together, they formed _Solariumagelani_.
On 2-Apr-09, at 12:48 PM, James Cole wrote: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
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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.
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>> Mainstream films are helpful too, but I've got T2.
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>> Thanks so much,
>>
>> Sara Gooch
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