From: k. a.r. (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Sep 10 2009 - 17:58:39 PDT
re: Lovemaking.
When did he withdraw it? because it seems like I may have seen that at some point......
Kristie Reinders, B.F.A.
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> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:42:47 -0700
> From: email suppressed
> Subject: Re: [FRAMEWORKS] Looking for prints to screen
> To: email suppressed
>
> I haven't seen Lovemaking, which makes it difficult to comment. But
> my understanding is that in his considerations of notions of love and
> sexuality, Stan ended up with a film in four sections: heterosexual
> lovemaking, animals mating, homosexual lovemaking, and a fourth part
> that was an unstaged filming of a group of children playing a game,
> which Stan believed demonstrated some beginnings of sexual awareness
> amongst the children -- and therefore seeming to him to be related
> thematically to this film. Why he subsequently decided to withdraw it
> was because of some reactions (I don't know the specifics) which led
> him to believe that the film might be misunderstood or misused.
>
> Marilyn Brakhage
>
>
> On 10-Sep-09, at 11:12 AM, Jorge Amaro wrote:
>
> > I'm just curious, is there any particular reason behind it?
> >
> > 2009/9/10 marilyn brakhage <email suppressed>:
> >> Stan Brakhage withdrew the film "Lovemaking" from distribution many
> >> years
> >> ago.
> >>
> >> Marilyn Brakhage
> >>
> >> On 10-Sep-09, at 3:53 AM, Thure Munkholm wrote:
> >>
> >>> Dear friends at Frameworks.
> >>>
> >>> I'm located in Denmark, where I work as a programmer.
> >>>
> >>> I've had a hard time finding a place where I could rent (film)
> >>> prints of
> >>>
> >>> Stan Brakhage: Lovemaking (1968)
> >>> Milton Miron: Tricia's Wedding (1971)
> >>> Yoko Ono: Fly (1970)
> >>>
> >>> I would love to show these here in November, so any indication as
> >>> to where
> >>> I might be able to rent them would be highly appreciated.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> All the best,
> >>> Thure Munkholm
> >>>
> >>>
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> >>
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> >
> >
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