From: Yoel Meranda (email suppressed)
Date: Sun Feb 14 2010 - 14:41:23 PST
Sorry it's not "The States" but "States"...
yoel
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:40 AM, Yoel Meranda <email suppressed>wrote:
> I know these should be seen on film, but I should say, as someone who lives
> in Istanbul, this is incredibly exciting news!
>
> Hope that "The States", one of my favorite Framptons, will be included.
>
> Here's Michael Snow's description from the coop's website:
>
> 'No, not the United States but the conditions, forms in which things exist.
> Somewhat abstracted, a solid, a liquid and a gas: salt,milk and smoke:
> falling, pouring and rising are the stars of this classical film. Sheets,
> streaks and wisps, the protagonists are all white (light). The background,
> zero place, is black (no light). Silence. The ongoing film reveals the
> ephemera compartmented in a pattern of temporal proportions in which lengths
> of salt sheet activity are gradually overtaken by liquid streaks which are
> in turn overtaken by smoke drifts. But another solid is the sliceable,
> arrangeable film material itself: the intercutting and the logic of the
> arrangement introduces something diamond-like,sculptural to the natures
> presented. There is a profoundly satisfying unity of ends and means that is
> both "natural" (the way the protaginists behave) and "artificial" ( the
> artists structure). The sum is cultured, beautiful" -Michael Snow
>
>
> yoel
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Patrick Friel <email suppressed>wrote:
>
>> Mark and others,
>>
>> My understanding from the Criterion person who attended the Frampton
>> Conference in Chicago (the person Fred Camper mentioned) is that this will
>> be a three-disc set.
>>
>> Several others there besides Fred were encouraging her to push for all of
>> HAPAX on the set. It sounded like she was convinced, but I think she's
>> handling the bonus features for the discs and does not make main
>> selections
>> of the films.
>>
>> So, right now, I think it will be HAPAX on one disc; ZORNS LEMMA, a
>> selection of earlier shorts, and a selection of films from the Magellan
>> cycle spread over the other two. Plus their usual generous assortment of
>> bonus material.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Patrick
>>
>>
>> On 2/14/10 12:00 AM, "Mark Toscano" <email suppressed> wrote:
>> >
>> > Especially since NFPF released (nostalgia) on its Treasures IV DVD, I
>> would
>> > love to see Poetic Justice, Critical Mass, and then a boatload of other
>> titles
>> > collected into a large Criterion set a la the Brakhage releases.
>> >
>> > But regardless, I'm certainly not going to complain about Criterion
>> putting a
>> > further foot forward into experimental territory, so hooray for them
>> > even(/especially?) if it's Hapax alone.
>> >
>>
>> > mark t
>> >
>>
>>
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