From: email suppressed
Date: Fri Jun 04 2010 - 19:39:48 PDT
Send FrameWorks mailing list submissions to
email suppressed
To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
http://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
email suppressed
You can reach the person managing the list at
email suppressed
When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
than "Re: Contents of FrameWorks digest..."
Today's Topics:
1. Re: weird! (Chuck Kleinhans)
2. FLEX show at UnionDocs in NYC this Sunday (Roger Beebe)
3. Keith Griffiths (Adam Hyman)
4. Re: John Writer (Mark Toscano)
5. Re: weird! (Jason Halprin)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Message: 1
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 12:42:21 -0700
From: Chuck Kleinhans <email suppressed>
Subject: Re: [Frameworks] weird!
To: Experimental Film Discussion List <email suppressed>
Message-ID: <email suppressed>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
This list doesn't strike me as so unusual in either titles or makers
given the people who were polled to make it up. By and large they
are people who program experimental work and could be expected to see
a lot of work as they curate or judge or organize screenings. Plus
most of them, the ones I know of, seem to be located in large urban
centers in the US with a fair amount of screening going on,
festivals, etc.
Doubtless you'd come up with a different list if you highlighted
single channel video, or installation video art as part of the mix.
Or polled more UK or European folks.
Chuck Kleinhans
------------------------------
Message: 2
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 14:00:19 -0700
From: Roger Beebe <email suppressed>
Subject: [Frameworks] FLEX show at UnionDocs in NYC this Sunday
To: Experimental Film Discussion List <email suppressed>
Message-ID: <email suppressed>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"
All,
Apologies (as always) for missing the Flicker listings, but I wanted to alert NYC area folks that FLEX will be presenting a show at UnionDocs (322 Union Ave.) in Brooklyn on Sunday (June 6) at 7:30 p.m. The show is a slightly revamped version of a program from our last competitive festival, organized around themes of inner and outer space. I'm attaching the full show announcement below.
Best,
Roger Beebe
FLEX Artistic Director
__________
FLEX: The Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival presents A Few of Our Favorite Things, a selection of some of our favorite entries from past festivals. The selection of these particular works was inspired by the theme of one of the festival?s most popular programs from the 2009 competitive festival--Spacey Space.
While representing the broad scope of work submitted each year to the festival, the individual works contained in this program all share a common interest in exploring the notion of space--both inner and outer. Some of these works encourage us to reach into the void in order to recover that which feels lost--be it forgotten people, memories, ideas, or other pieces of the universe. Other works ask us to consider what continues to surround us--electrons, devices of control/isolation, and even ghosts. By exploring the expanses of inner and outer space-- the phantom zones existing beside us and within us--these pieces demand of us a closer inspection of the unseen, the in between, and the forgotten.
This show was curated by FLEX Managing Director Alisson Bittiker who will be on hand to introduce the show. Post-show discussion will include Bittiker along with filmmaker Andres Arocha, Michael Connor (Marian Spore/Radiovisual), and Rachael Rakes (doctruck).
FILMS/VIDEOS to be screened:
Energie!
Thorsten Fleisch
2007, 05:07, Germany, miniDV
Day/Night (Devil's Millhopper)
Andres Arocha
2009, 5:00, USA, 16mm
Roswell
Bill Brown
1994, 23:00, USA, 16mm
It Will Die Out in the Mind
Deborah Stratman
2006, 03:50, USA, miniDV
All Through the Night
Michael Robinson
2008, 04:00, USA, miniDV
Phantogram
Kerry Laitala
2008, 06:00, USA, 16mm
Space Ghost
Laurie Jo Reynolds
2007, 26:00, USA, miniDV
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/pipermail/frameworks/attachments/20100604/e13ae8f0/attachment-0001.html
------------------------------
Message: 3
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:39:20 -0700
From: Adam Hyman <email suppressed>
Subject: [Frameworks] Keith Griffiths
To: Experimental Film Discussion List <email suppressed>
Message-ID: <email suppressed>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Anyone know how to reach Keith Griffiths, maker of...
Abstract Cinema
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0340505/
Oskar Fischinger
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0340884/
Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0341095/
?
Thanks!
Adam
------------------------------
Message: 4
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 17:36:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mark Toscano <email suppressed>
Subject: Re: [Frameworks] John Writer
To: Experimental Film Discussion List <email suppressed>
Message-ID: <email suppressed>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Hmm, I've been wondering about John Writer a bit. I've never seen anything, but when Brakhage's internegatives came to the Academy from MoMA in about 2005-06, one of Writer's internegs was in there. Most likely, Western Cine labs had sent it by mistake to MoMA back in 2002. It's a film called HADES TRINITY. Can't help but think of THE DANTE QUARTET, of course.
I think at the time, maybe Timoleon Wilkins told me he had known John, but I don't remember what he said. I just inventoried the interneg into our collection, so if someone knows John, he might like to know we have it and perhaps want it back.
Steve P - your description of that screening is fascinating. I wonder if he makes films anymore.
Mark Toscano
--- On Fri, 6/4/10, gregg biermann <email suppressed> wrote:
From: gregg biermann <email suppressed>
Subject: Re: [Frameworks] John Writer
To: "Experimental Film Discussion List" <email suppressed>
Date: Friday, June 4, 2010, 7:49 AM
Jacob,
I have a dim memory of him at SFAI in 1992 or 1993. A tall, bearded
fellow with a floppy brimmed hat and sandals. He thoroughly thrashed me
at chess without much effort. His one film that I recall was called
something like 'I -- Venus, Dog of this Light". Reminded me of
Brakhage's Arabics, Roman Numerals, Egyptians, etc. It was soft-focus,
abstracted if not totally abstract and delicate. Some of the graduate
students (harshly but affectionately) dubbed him "Stan the younger".
G
Jacob W. wrote:
#yiv1382957565 .hmmessage P
{margin:0px;padding:0px;}
#yiv1382957565 .hmmessage
{font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;}
I was wondering if someone might be able to help me out with any
information about John Writer (who he is, about his films, anything
really)?? Brakhage mentions him in the interview with Suranjan Ganguly,
but so far I've come up empty-handed.? Thanks.
---
Jacob
http://making-light-of-it.blogspot.com/
_______________________________________________
FrameWorks mailing list
email suppressed
http://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
-----Inline Attachment Follows-----
_______________________________________________
FrameWorks mailing list
email suppressed
http://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
------------------------------
Message: 5
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 19:39:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jason Halprin <email suppressed>
Subject: Re: [Frameworks] weird!
To: Experimental Film Discussion List <email suppressed>
Message-ID: <email suppressed>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
To me, the list of contributors seems to be the weirdest part of it all. Meant in no offense to the people on the list (who include good friends, acquaintances, professors, contacts through festival work, and programmers of my work), I can only ask the question: Really?
This is exactly the sort of canonization that drives me crazy. Then again, what do I expect from an NYC poll?
Jeeze, now I feel like a bitter old man.
-Jason Halprin
PS I encourage everyone on here to check out the work of Richard Myers, Dana Krumins, Michael Henderson, and countless others who seem lost to our small, but important sliver of the cultural spectrum.
________________________________
From: Roger Beebe <email suppressed>
To: Experimental Film Discussion List <email suppressed>
Sent: Fri, June 4, 2010 2:20:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Frameworks] weird!
The (hand-selected) list of the 46 contributors is at the bottom of the page. Would be interesting to see what an open Frameworks poll yielded (although certainly now that History Has Been Written, the results might now follow this list more than they would've otherwise).
...
R.
On Jun 4, 2010, at 12:12 PM, Chris Lynn wrote:
> I guess I am out of the loop- but I never knew they were conducting such a poll-Was it just for Film Comment readers and contributors? Or did they make an announcement on Frameworks?
> just wondering-
>
> cl
>
> --- On Fri, 6/4/10, Roger Beebe <email suppressed> wrote:
>
>> From: Roger Beebe <email suppressed>
>> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] weird!
>> To: "Experimental Film Discussion List" <email suppressed>
>> Date: Friday, June 4, 2010, 1:41 PM
>> Pretty sure Tomonari Nishikawa still
>> counts as Japanese, doesn't he? I know he was schooled
>> in the U.S., but...
>>
>> (Not defending this list. Biting my tongue.)
>> R.
>>
>> On Jun 4, 2010, at 10:15 AM, Jim Flannery wrote:
>>
>>> Friday, June 4, 2010, 9:16:50 AM, one wrote:
>>>
>>>> what a bizarre list (I suppose they always are)
>>>> http://www.filmlinc.com/fcm/mj10/agpoll.htm
>>>
>>> Bizarre in what way? Aside from the lack of any
>> Japanese names (and only
>>> one Austrian) it's pretty much in line from what i
>> remember of the
>>> decade and about what you'd expect from the listed
>> participants.
>>> Certainly the WTF content is much lower than the run
>> of lists of
>>> mainstream/arthouse features ...
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Jim Flannery
>>> email suppressed
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> FrameWorks mailing list
>>> email suppressed
>>> http://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> FrameWorks mailing list
>> email suppressed
>> http://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
>>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> FrameWorks mailing list
> email suppressed
> http://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
_______________________________________________
FrameWorks mailing list
email suppressed
http://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/pipermail/frameworks/attachments/20100604/3941c2f8/attachment.html
------------------------------
_______________________________________________
FrameWorks mailing list
email suppressed
http://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
End of FrameWorks Digest, Vol 1, Issue 10
*****************************************