Thanks, Jonathan. Right, to his credit, Gidal "curates" in the conflict with Snow over "Back and Forth." Love that.
The Michelson excerpt includes the line that seems to offend him most: "Snow has re-defined filmic space as that of action." Strange that he doesn't include the exchange of letters. Maybe he wanted to but was denied rights? j On Feb 22, 2016, at 11:20 AM, Jonathan Walley <wall...@denison.edu> wrote: > Interesting question. Keep in mind that Gidal also included and essay on Ken > Jacobs’ Tom Tom... (by Lois Mendelson and Bill Simon, also from Artforum) > that he (Gidal) expressly marked as “symptomatic of current misunderstanding” > and “fetishization of process and idealization of the formal in its weak > sense.” Vidal attributed the same “blindness” to the film itself. So he was > open to polemically including “bad” essays. > > He doesn’t include a similar note about the Michelson piece, though he only > includes an excerpt. Perhaps he found that excerpt less “wrongheaded” than > other passages in the essay. The entire Snow section of Structural Film > Anthology is on the polemical side, including the rather pissy letter from > Snow to Gidal in response to the latter’s comments about Back-Forth. > > Sort of an answer? > > Dr. Jonathan Walley > Associate Professor and Chair > Department of Cinema > Denison University > wall...@denison.edu > > >> On Feb 22, 2016, at 11:00 AM, John Muse <jm...@sonic.net> wrote: >> >> Can someone briefly explain--or point me to resources that explain--how it >> is that in 1976 Peter Gidal can include Annette Michelson's June 1971 >> Artforum piece "Towards Snow" in his Structural Film Anthology when in the >> September 1971 issue of Artforum he excoriates her and this piece in >> particular, beginning a letter to the editor, >> >>> In a remarkably wrongheaded piece, Annette Michelson, in the june Artforum >>> asserts, with reference to Michael Snow's film, Wavelength, "Snow has >>> redefined filmic space as that of action. >> >> "… remarkably wrongheaded…" is certainly polemical, but there she is in the >> anthology. What happened? Was her response to him persuasive? >> >> I'll take my answer off the air. >> >> j/PrM >> >> ************************************************* >> >> john muse >> visiting assistant professor of independent college programs >> haverford college >> http://www.finleymuse.com >> http://www.haverford.edu/faculty/jmuse >> http://haverford.academia.edu/JohnMuse >> >> ************************************************* >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> FrameWorks mailing list >> FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com >> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks j/PrM ************************************************* john muse visiting assistant professor of independent college programs haverford college http://www.finleymuse.com http://www.haverford.edu/faculty/jmuse http://haverford.academia.edu/JohnMuse ************************************************* _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
