From: jeanne LIOTTA (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Oct 14 2010 - 12:42:48 PDT
I've never been in a show in my life that didn't represent the views of the
curators.
Jeanne 'just sayin' Liotta
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:01 PM, gregg biermann <email suppressed>wrote:
> Ben -- Frameworkers,
>
> I cannot give you a review of the screenings but only my general feelings
> about the many years of screenings that I had attended in the past. My beef
> with the programming is that the Views represents only the views of Mark
> McElhatten and Gavin Smith. The screenings have a gravitational pull in this
> community perhaps in large part to their institutional affiliation with
> Lincoln Center. Whatever the reason, the programmers do not seem to take
> seriously what I see as a special responsibility to present the breadth and
> depth of what is really being produced out there in this mode. If these
> screenings have become the central venue for avant-garde cinema, the
> programming cannot be arbitrary. It needs to get beyond the peculiar tastes
> of the programmers (even keeping in mind Mark's long time commitment to
> programming in the avant-garde idiom). As an artist that was repeatedly
> ignored by the programmers and eventually stopped attending the screenings
> altogether, I felt compelled to contact Smith directly about a year ago. Of
> course I complained about being undervalued but more importantly to this
> group, I told him that I thought that these screenings had become uptight
> and insular -- an insider game. I suggested to Gavin that the best way to
> avoid that perception among artists that are productive and committed to
> avant-garde cinema and repeatedly not included in the screenings would be to
> have a different guest programmer join them each year. I had hoped that he
> would take my criticism as constructive but he rejected the idea out of hand
> and certainly did not allow that I in any way had a valid point. As far as
> expanding the list of programmers and getting another view as to what is
> valuable in a given year -- I doubt that this will happen unless this
> community demands it.
>
> Best regards,
> Gregg
>
>
> On 10/13/2010 12:40 PM, ben russell wrote:
>
> Frameworkers,
>
> Until those long-awaited words of review-and-criticism about VIEWS make
> their way beyond social networking sites, here are some images by yours
> truly of the film/video weekend in question (with special appearances by
> Mark McElhatten and Gavin Smith as Francis Bacon paintings and the
> silhouette of Vincent Grenier's hair): http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/2422
>
> Enjoy,
>
> BR
>
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