From: Roger Beebe (email suppressed)
Date: Fri May 14 2010 - 23:18:36 PDT
Answering Steve's call, at least in part:
On May 14, 2010, at 9:36 PM, Steve Polta wrote:
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> There's a thing called LEFT OF RECKONING by avant-garde filmmaker James Herbert on a old old old R.E.M. videocassette I have around here somewhere (we're talking VHS) which is a step-printed optical printer thing to which is tracked the second side of R.E.M.'s second full-length RECKONING (you know about "the-second-song-on-the-second-side of-the-second-album" right?). Herbert is/was a filmmaker I used to hear about/read about a bit but haven't seen anything other than his R.E.M. videos (such as "Radio Free Europe").
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Jim Herbert made an HD feature a few years back that played at Rotterdam. I once sat in on his class at UGA (where he was a film prof) & I just remember him getting really excited (but not necessarily in a lecherous way) about the students who got naked in their super 8 films. My memory of his feature was that it was...lots of attractive young people getting naked in Italy somewhere? (A less lazy man would google this.)
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> But really this email just shows my age. There must be "younger" bands that have done this. Radiohead maybe? I think Sonic Youth maybe did a-video-for-every-song deal (probably by different makers) for their album GOO and released it as such.
Not that this is the pinnacle of artistic achievement, but Death Cab for Cutie did just that for their album Plans (released as a DVD called Directions). I shot a tiny bit of super 8 that was used in one of the vids (and was paid with a couple extra rolls of film). I imagine, like Steve, that there are MANY bands doing this kind of thing now.
> Curious to see what, is anything, comes up. I'm sure there's some silly prog rock concept album film out there—KILLROY WAS HERE by Styx?—that will soon emerge like a hoary kraken over this thread in short order...
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Was ironically just given a tour of the Academy Archives by Mark Toscano, and we happened upon a 35mm print (or was it 16mm?) of Kilroy Was Here. Didn't look album length though, so unless they're missing some tracks, now's not the time to talk about Styx.
That's all I've got.
Roger
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> --- On Fri, 5/14/10, Raymond Salvatore Harmon <email suppressed> wrote:
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> From: Raymond Salvatore Harmon <email suppressed>
> Subject: visual albums
> To: email suppressed
> Date: Friday, May 14, 2010, 5:23 AM
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> Hello all,
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> Working on a new project and wanted to ask for suggestions about "visual albums" or full length music albums that have been made into films. Particularly things that are more rare or obscure. I am looking for films that have been made in collaboration between the band and the filmmaker.
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> Any suggestions?
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> Yours
> RSH
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