Re: [Frameworks] Films around the domestic interior and group study

2016-04-06 Thread Nicky Hamlyn
Re Group Study: Godard, Vent D'est. Sent from my Sony Xperia™ smartphone Nicky Hamlyn wrote >___ >FrameWorks mailing list >FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com >https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinf

Re: [Frameworks] 16mm to HD transfer in Leeds / Manchester / York?

2016-04-04 Thread Nicky Hamlyn
Try IDailies in London but will post. They're very good Envoyé depuis mon smartphone Sony Xperia™ Amir Husak a écrit >___ >FrameWorks mailing list >FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com >https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks

Re: [Frameworks] Camera obscura films

2016-03-20 Thread Nicky Hamlyn
Rachel Reupke made a film in/of a camera obscura, but that's as much as I know. You could ask at LUX, Nicky Envoyé depuis mon smartphone Sony Xperia™ Simon Payne a écrit >___ >FrameWorks mailing list >FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com

Re: [Frameworks] Swings

2016-03-08 Thread Nicky Hamlyn
This is very obscure, but Jigsaw, by Robina Rose, has a long scene in a children's playground. Wonderful film, deserves to be rediscovered. Envoyé depuis mon smartphone Sony Xperia™ peter snowdon a écrit >Renoir's Une Partie de campagne (copying his father in this, some might

Re: [Frameworks] Lis Rhodes? Dynamo Dresden fan? + synch?

2016-02-24 Thread Nicky Hamlyn
As far as I know it's named after the football club, for no particular reason. Letratone was made somewhere in Kent, south east England, but not any more. They have offices in LeMans: www.letraset.com. The film was made section by section under an enlarger, from B originals printed through

Re: [Frameworks] Annette Michelson and Peter Gidal

2016-02-23 Thread Nicky Hamlyn
'stairs' not 'stars'! Envoyé depuis mon smartphone Sony Xperia™ Nicky Hamlyn a écrit >___ >FrameWorks mailing list >FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com >https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinf

Re: [Frameworks] Annette Michelson and Peter Gidal

2016-02-23 Thread Nicky Hamlyn
I suspect Arnulf Rainer is excluded because it's abstract, my assumption being based on Gidal's critique of Sharits., ie, the viewer can fantasise 'into' blank colour frames just as much as they can falsely identify with a character in a movie. Some of Gidal's own films, eg Room Film 1973, use

Re: [Frameworks] structuralist/materialist films by women

2016-02-20 Thread Nicky Hamlyn
Gill Eatherley, Samantha Rebello, Sue K. John Muse a écrit >I'm looking for structuralist/materialist films by women, whether made in the >60's and 70's or later. Gidal include Wieland in his anthology; Sailboat is >lovely, comic, and punchy. And I, against the grain, appreciate

Re: [Frameworks] 360 degrees

2016-02-18 Thread Nicky Hamlyn
Mulvey and Wollen: Riddles of the Sphinx. 13 consecutive 360 degree pans. Envoyé depuis mon smartphone Sony Xperia™ o...@thenowcorporation.com a écrit >___ >FrameWorks mailing list >FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com

Re: [Frameworks] Contact with Ben Rivers

2016-02-18 Thread Nicky Hamlyn
You could try his gallery, Kate McGarry Envoyé depuis mon smartphone Sony Xperia™ Bryan Wendorf a écrit >___ >FrameWorks mailing list >FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com >https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks

Re: [Frameworks] Eclipse on film

2016-02-09 Thread Nicky Hamlyn
If I 'm not mistaken, the actual eclipse is not visible in Tacita's film. It was totally overcast that day. Nicky Envoyé depuis mon smartphone Sony Xperia™ Anderwald Grond a écrit >___ >FrameWorks mailing list

Re: [Frameworks] Eclipse on film

2016-02-09 Thread Nicky Hamlyn
The 2012 Transit of Venus is combined with the 2004, so it's two films in one now. Nicky Envoyé depuis mon smartphone Sony Xperia™ Cathy a écrit >Under - "Any other astronomical event" - Nicky Hamlyn's 'The Transit of Venus' >http://nickyhamlyn.com/images-4/. > >Best >Cathy

Re: [Frameworks] Films about glass and light

2016-02-03 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Stan Brakhage: Text of Light. A world in an ashtray. Some of Jamie Jenkinson's iPhone videos are very glassy: http://www.jamiejohnjamesjenkinson.com/ John DuCane: Zoom Lapse. Windows. Michael Snow: Wavelength. Nicky Hamlyn: Silver Street. Views out of windows and mirrors included. Nicky

Re: [Frameworks] Films about glass and light

2016-02-03 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Snow: Wavelength. Nicky Hamlyn: Silver Street. Views out of windows and mirrors included. Nicky. -Original Message- From: Sheri Wills <s...@sheriwills.com> To: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com> Sent: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 2:19 Subject: [Frame

Re: [Frameworks] Experimental Films on Farming/ Agriculture

2016-01-17 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Margaret Tait: Landmakar: http://www.lux.org.uk/collection/works/land-makar Nicky. -Original Message- From: Anderwald + Grond To: Experimental Film Discussion List Sent: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 7:08 Subject: Re: [Frameworks]

Re: [Frameworks] Shower scenes...

2016-01-06 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Don't know if they've already been mentioned, but one of Kuchar's weather diary films has him masturbating in a motel shower, and there's also Fred Drummond's 'Shower Proof', a printer loop film made at the LFMC in 1969. Nicky. -Original Message- From: Jamie Cleeland

Re: [Frameworks] Bi-packing acetate in a Bolex

2015-12-06 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Sorry for delayed response, I usually load manually just to be sure both sets of sprocket holes are securely on the sprocketed rollers and the claw. Point the camera at a white wall and take a light reading in the usual way, Nicky. -Original Message- From: Chris G

Re: [Frameworks] Bi-packing acetate in a Bolex

2015-12-04 Thread nicky . hamlyn
I have done a fair amount of bi-packing acetate neg with polyester print stock, and polyester with polyester, and it works fine. Occasionally a frame slips, maybe every 500or 600 feet, but it works well and there's been no damage to the camera that I can detect, Nicky. -Original

Re: [Frameworks] The eye in experimental cinema

2015-11-01 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Guy Sherwin's 'Eye', 'Maya' and 'Yi Wei' from the Short Film Series, Nicky. -Original Message- From: Jorge Lorenzo Flores Garza To: Experimental Film Discussion List Sent: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 22:14 Subject: Re:

Re: [Frameworks] Chantal Akerman died/reception

2015-10-09 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Same problem with the Hollis Frampton DVDs. Quiet annoying. Nicky. -Original Message- From: Adam Hyman To: Experimental Film Discussion List ; JANA DEBUS Sent: Fri, 9

Re: [Frameworks] 16mm spools and cans

2015-09-20 Thread Nicky Hamlyn
Thanks Envoyé à partir de mon smartphone Sony Xperia™ Esperanza Collado a écrit >___ >FrameWorks mailing list >FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com >https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks

Re: [Frameworks] 16mm spools and cans

2015-09-19 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Great, thanks, I have a vague memory of buying from them before, Nicky. -Original Message- From: Pip Chodorov To: Experimental Film Discussion List Sent: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 15:20 Subject: Re: [Frameworks] 16mm spools and

[Frameworks] 16mm spools and cans

2015-09-19 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Can anyone recommend a source of 16mm spools and cans, preferably plastic, 800' and 1200' ideally, either in the UK or elsewhere. It's becoming rather hard to find them Thanks, Nicky. ___ FrameWorks mailing list

Re: [Frameworks] Articles/essays on the history of flatbed editors(Moviola, Steenbeck, etc)?

2015-09-18 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Don't know if ti's already been mentioned but Pedro Costa's 'Where does your secret smile lie?', film of Straub / Hullet editing Sicilia! on a Steenbeck, is relevant, Nicky. -Original Message- From: Francisco Torres To: Experimental Film Discussion List

Re: [Frameworks] Phill Niblock, Francis Al ÿ s

2015-08-31 Thread nicky . hamlyn
You could try asking Jon Wozencroft, who runs the Touch label, which has issued CDs by him: j...@touchmusic.org.uk, Nicky. -Original Message- From: Adam Hyman To: Experimental Film Discussion List

Re: [Frameworks] Gatten

2015-08-30 Thread nicky . hamlyn
It's all here: https://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/MFAEDA/faculty/david.gatten Nicky. -Original Message- From: Kate Ewald katherine.ew...@gmail.com To: frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 13:09 Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Gatten David is not at Duke anymore, so that

Re: [Frameworks] Titles of scratch films

2015-08-26 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Vicky Smith's films are rotoscoped scratch films on clear celluloid, later with addition of body fluids. They are beautiful. Nicky. -Original Message- From: Tess Takahashi tess.takaha...@gmail.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Tue,

Re: [Frameworks] Titles of scratch films

2015-08-26 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Hi Tess, Vicky's email below. She also just completed her PhD, which is on 'Full-Body Film', Best wishes, Nicky. vsmi...@students.ucreative.ac.uk -Original Message- From: Tess Takahashi tess.takaha...@gmail.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List

Re: [Frameworks] films about solfege

2015-08-07 Thread nicky . hamlyn
The Sound of Music. Nicky. -Original Message- From: Amanda Christie ama...@amandadawnchristie.ca To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 17:37 Subject: [Frameworks] films about solfege Hello hive mind, I'm looking for

Re: [Frameworks] processing 16mm Tri X as negative in a bucket like a savage

2015-08-02 Thread Nicky Hamlyn
I got nice results using Dektol with Agfa ST8 sound film. Nicky Envoyé à partir de mon smartphone Sony Xperia™ Scott Dorsey a écrit Dektol is a very, very fast-working developer and very grainy. It is intended for paper and print materials, not for film. It may be possible to use

Re: [Frameworks] countryside film

2015-07-13 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Deliverance. Moi, PIerre Riviere. Nicky. -Original Message- From: John Matturri jmatt...@gmail.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 16:56 Subject: Re: [Frameworks] countryside film La terra trema On Jul 13, 2015 11:54

Re: [Frameworks] Image data to sound data

2015-06-19 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Have you seen Lis Rhodes' film Light Music (1975)? Nicky. -Original Message- From: _blank bl...@null66913.net To: frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 14:32 Subject: [Frameworks] Image data to sound data Hi everybody, Some days ago I performed an experiment

Re: [Frameworks] sound examples in film + video

2015-06-15 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Specifically in relation to the diagetic / non-diagetic, the farmyard piano scene from Godard's Weekend, Nicky. -Original Message- From: lagonaboba lagonab...@gmail.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 16:08 Subject:

Re: [Frameworks] TV jargon

2015-06-13 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Sometimes called a 'Sting' in the UK, Nicky. -Original Message- From: Gene Youngblood ato...@comcast.net To: Frameworks Listserv frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 5:37 Subject: Re: [Frameworks] TV jargon Thanks, all, for your kind responses. On Jun 12,

Re: [Frameworks] Night films

2015-05-14 Thread nicky . hamlyn
The Klopfenstein is the one I was trying to remember. The LFMC had a print of it long ago. Might be worth asking LUX, Nicky. -Original Message- From: Christopher Ball cbifi...@gmail.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Thu, 14 May 2015

Re: [Frameworks] Night films

2015-05-13 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Helga Fanderl: Night and Wind Emily Richardson: Block, Nocturne Chris Welsby: Drift Peter Gidal: Room Film 1973, Close UP The LFMC used to have a beautiful BW film shot in cities at night by someone like Wim Wenders cinematographer, but that's all I can remember. Nicky. -Original

Re: [Frameworks] London Super-8 Lab recommendations

2015-05-07 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Don't most labs with a website also have a real address? Try here: http://www.cinelab.co.uk/ They process Super 8 neg and they have an address. They're in Slough, west of London, about 25 minutes by train. I don't think there's anywhere else in the UK, Nicky. -Original

Re: [Frameworks] London Super-8 Lab recommendations

2015-05-07 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Have a look on this page: http://www.cinelab.co.uk/services/film-processing/ Nicky. -Original Message- From: Bernd Lützeler fi...@gmx.de To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Fri, 8 May 2015 4:15 Subject: Re: [Frameworks] London Super-8 Lab

Re: [Frameworks] Ethnographic films / studies of The Other

2015-05-01 Thread nicky . hamlyn
You seem to contradict yourself: you say 'whenever I see' etc, but then ask 'what are some (of these films)'? If you know you've seen some, how come you can't identify them? Nicky. -Original Message- From: Chris Freeman christopherbriggsfree...@gmail.com To:

Re: [Frameworks] Complete Plant Liquidation of Deluxe La boratories, Inc.’s. Hollywood Film Process ing Facility. One of the World’s Largest Film Processing and Facilities

2015-04-07 Thread nicky . hamlyn
such a shame. On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 9:16 AM, Nicholas Kovats nkov...@gmail.com wrote: Indeed. But I should have read more carefully. The auction notice was from last year. I wonder how it was parceled out? On Monday, April 6, 2015, Nicky Hamlyn nicky.ham...@talktalk.net wrote: Ironic, considering

Re: [Frameworks] Complete Plant Liquidation of Deluxe Laboratories, Inc.’s. Hollywood Film Processing Facility. One of the World’s Largest Film Processing and Facilities

2015-04-06 Thread Nicky Hamlyn
Ironic, considering the first thing Deluxe did after buying Soho Film Lab in London was to cease 16mm printing. That's what precipitated Tacita Dean's save film campaign. Nicky. Nicholas Kovats wrote The auction title says it all. Over 1032 individual lots and starts on June 3. Sad

Re: [Frameworks] Short films that focus on the post-industrial

2015-03-31 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Anything by Patrick Keiller, some of Kevin Jerome Everson's work, though don't know it all to make accurate suggestions, William Raban's recent work over the last twenty years, Nicky. -Original Message- From: Margaret Rorison margaret.b.rori...@gmail.com To:

Re: [Frameworks] Women working in Expanded Cinema

2015-03-31 Thread nicky . hamlyn
There are 413 miles between Edinburgh and London. They are even in different countries, as recent events have highlighted! Nicky. -Original Message- From: herb shellenberger htsh...@gmail.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Tue, 31 Mar

Re: [Frameworks] Seeking source for this quote:

2015-03-28 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Jean Renoir said the same thing in different words in 1961 here: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jean+renoir+parle+de+son+art Nicky. -Original Message- From: Ken Paul Rosenthal kenpaulrosent...@hotmail.com To: Frameworks Postings frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent:

Re: [Frameworks] What are the 3 Essential Films that you would show Artists on their first foray into the Moving Image Realm ?

2015-03-28 Thread nicky . hamlyn
I showed Wavelength yesterday to first year Fine Art students. It's a very tough introduction to a/g film, a real plunge into the deep end. It really annoys and baffles some, but enthuses others, but it always stimulates debate in a way that few other films can. For these reasons and others,

Re: [Frameworks] Women working in Expanded Cinema

2015-03-20 Thread Nicky Hamlyn
And Cathy Rogers, who's too modest to mention herself. Nicky. Cathy Rogers wrote ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks

Re: [Frameworks] Bi-packing Bolex H16 to print film

2015-02-24 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Don't remove the lens. Just point the camera at an evenly-lit white wall, take an incident light reading as if you were filming the wall (which you are in a way) and then expose in the normal way, using the aperture on the lens to adjust the exposure. Nicky. -Original

Re: [Frameworks] Francis Lee?

2015-02-19 Thread nicky . hamlyn
As far as the UK is concerned you don't need permission to reproduce a frame from a film, as long as you don't ask. Some organisations, like the Warhol Foundation, pursue everyone for anything, however small, but it's unlikely in this case, I would have thought. This is based on my own

Re: [Frameworks] Optical sound - Structural film

2015-02-11 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Lis Rhodes: Light Music for two projectors facing each other. It's very intense! Nicky. -Original Message- From: Amanda Christie ama...@amandadawnchristie.ca To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 13:00 Subject: Re:

Re: [Frameworks] Single-shot fixed camera landscape/cityscape films

2015-02-07 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Lots of Lumiere films, Nicky. -Original Message- From: Benjamin Léon benj.l...@gmail.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Sat, 7 Feb 2015 10:54 Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Single-shot fixed camera landscape/cityscape films You could find

Re: [Frameworks] loop printing at lab

2015-02-03 Thread nicky . hamlyn
What does that mean? I have work at Niagara! Can anyone shed light on this? Nicky. -Original Message- From: Jorge Lorenzo Flores Garza jorgelore...@hotmail.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 16:56 Subject: Re:

Re: [Frameworks] Books on the History of Avant-Garde film in US

2015-01-31 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Not sure if anyone has already mentioned Scott MacDonald: The Garden in the Machine. Nicky. -Original Message- From: Dave Tetzlaff djte...@gmail.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 6:25 Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Books

Re: [Frameworks] Elf service

2015-01-28 Thread Nicky Hamlyn
Hi Graham, would be great if you could service my Elfs. I need them for early March. Best, Nicky graemeh...@irational.org wrote ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com

Re: [Frameworks] Elf service

2015-01-27 Thread Nicky Hamlyn
Great, yes I remember. The take ups and focus knob: usual things but also a lube service would be good. Nicky. graemeh...@irational.org wrote ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com

[Frameworks] Elf service

2015-01-27 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Does anyone know anyone in the UK who services Elf projectors? Alternatively can anyone give me some advice on how to do it myself? Thanks, Nicky. ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com

Re: [Frameworks] A.L. Rees, 1949­2014

2014-12-03 Thread nicky . hamlyn
My blog address was wrong. It should be www.nickyhamlyn.com NIcky. -Original Message- From: Peter Mudie peter.mu...@uwa.edu.au To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 22:23 Subject: Re: [Frameworks] A.L. Rees, 1949­2014 Very

Re: [Frameworks] experimental/handcrafted animation

2014-11-13 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Vicky Smith's work is very interesting and innovative. Her work is represented on the new No.w.here ten year anniversary compilation DVD, out next week! Nicky. -Original Message- From: Esperanza Collado esperanzacolla...@gmail.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List

Re: [Frameworks] Films incorporating déjà vu

2014-11-07 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Rivette: Celine and Julie go Boating (if memory serves)? Bunuel: The Exterminating Angel (ditto)? Hitchcock: Vertigo, Nicky. -Original Message- From: David Sherman davidgatessher...@gmail.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Fri, 7 Nov

Re: [Frameworks] advice on Europen film labs

2014-10-20 Thread nicky . hamlyn
I think you're worrying unnecessarily about losing film at the lab. These labs are professional outfits you know, not amateurs with bathtubs! You could also try Haghe Film in Amsterdam or Prestech in London for prints, iDailies in London if you just want dev and T'fer to ProRes HQ. Nicky.

Re: [Frameworks] Kodak NYC office closing

2014-10-15 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Polaroid made a Super 8 polaroid camera in the 80s. One of the Dutch pro cycling teams used to use one to film the races so they could analyse them straight after they finished. Maybe they could join forces with Kodak. Shoot S8 or some other format, instant process then TX to Pro Res HQ.

Re: [Frameworks] super8 in europe,

2014-10-13 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Andec both sell and process Super 8: http://www.andecfilm.de/en/e_start.htm Nicky. -Original Message- From: Stefan Grabowski ste...@radonlake.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 5:24 Subject: Re: [Frameworks] super8

Re: [Frameworks] Zoom lens and camera used for Wavelength

2014-10-12 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Probably combined with an Arri BL, which was the ubiquitous camera that went with the lens, as used by TV news crews all over the place, and certainly by the BBC, before they switched to the Arri SR with Zeiss Distagon lenses in the mid 1980s, Nicky. -Original Message- From:

Re: [Frameworks] Experimental + Documentary Apps

2014-10-10 Thread nicky . hamlyn
There's a terrible one for Android called AR Effect. Nicky. -Original Message- From: Shane Eason shaneea...@yahoo.ca To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 23:22 Subject: [Frameworks] Experimental + Documentary Apps

Re: [Frameworks] tableau vivante : experimental film and single frames

2014-10-07 Thread nicky . hamlyn
And Kitchen, Vinyl, Horse and other Warhol films if you went through them methodically, Nicky. -Original Message- From: Jared Ashburn ashburn.ja...@gmail.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 2:38 Subject: Re:

Re: [Frameworks] tableau vivante : experimental film and single frames

2014-10-06 Thread nicky . hamlyn
See Jonathan Walley's essay in Millennium Film Journal issue 59, which is on this topic, Nicky. -Original Message- From: Rebekka Erin Moran rebekka.mo...@gmail.com To: frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 22:10 Subject: [Frameworks] tableau vivante :

Re: [Frameworks] FILM Ferrania Kickstarter: potential new color reversal film stock

2014-10-04 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Is reversal really what people want? If you want a projection print you either need a reversal print, a currently unavailable option, or you need an interneg then a print, in which case you're surely better off shooting on neg, which is what I do. I've never needed internegs, because I've never

Re: [Frameworks] If you want Kodak hicon, order it now

2014-09-30 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Try Agfa ST8. It's an orthochromatic sound recording stock. You can get it direct from Agfa in 2 x 2000' cans. They usually want you to buy some astronomical quantity, ie 105 cans, but they can be talked down, NIcky. -Original Message- From: Ruth Hayes randomr...@comcast.net

Re: [Frameworks] If you want Kodak hicon, order it now

2014-09-30 Thread nicky . hamlyn
I found it very difficult to contact them as they don't have an office in the UK. I emailed head office in Belgium (?) and eventually, after a few weeks, someone from Pinewood studios, whose name I forget now -this was in about 2010- called and asked me a few questions; who was I, what was the

Re: [Frameworks] CAPTURING DVD

2014-09-13 Thread nicky . hamlyn
If you want to capture footage from a DVD you can insert a DVD into the disc drive of your machine (I'm assuming MAC), wait for the DVD player to start then stop the disc playing and close DVD player. Then in FCP you go: File-import-files then go to the DVD folder on your desktop. Inside there

Re: [Frameworks] Processing Plus X negative in D76

2014-09-12 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Thanks, that's interesting, and it's actually the same timing as for 7222. When you say better grays do you mean lower contrast too? Nicky. -Original Message- From: David_Kidman david.kid...@gmail.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent:

[Frameworks] Processing Plus X negative in D76

2014-09-11 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Can anyone suggest processing times for developing Plus X negative / 7231 in D76 please? I can't find anything online, other than for stills film, which is apparently not the same. A recommendation as to whether stock or 1:1 dilution would also be appreciated, given it's quite contrasty,

Re: [Frameworks] Fantastic Focus on Experimental Filmmaking On BBC Talking Movies

2014-09-10 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Don't despair, because it won't tell you anything you didn't already know, so you're not losing out, on the contrary, it's a very partial, misleading and incomplete account. Nicky. -Original Message- From: jaime cleeland ethnom...@yahoo.co.uk To: Experimental Film Discussion

Re: [Frameworks] Fantastic Focus on Experimental Filmmaking On BBC Talking Movies

2014-09-10 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Yes, sorry, I should have made it clear that my moan was to do with the second half of the first episode, Nicky. -Original Message- From: o...@thenowcorporation.com o...@thenowcorporation.com To: elizabeth mcmahon elizmcma...@yahoo.com; Experimental Film Discussion List

Re: [Frameworks] Fantastic Focus on Experimental Filmmaking On BBC Talking Movies

2014-09-09 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Sorry to spoil the mood, but the first programme's a really bad mash up, eg clips from Berlin Horse overlaid with the music track from Peter Greenaway's The Draughtsman's Contract. All but one of the so-called artist filmmakers discussed in the UK section are those who have crossed over to more

[Frameworks] 7222 versus 7231

2014-09-01 Thread nicky . hamlyn
I am intending to shoot the night sky in BW with a Tobin motor and Bolex. I've been strongly advised to use 7231, NOT 7222, but I wondered if anyone else had opinions about this, Thanks, Nicky. ___ FrameWorks mailing list

Re: [Frameworks] Daylight Spools, and 16mm activism: Anyone? (Buehler?)

2014-09-01 Thread nicky . hamlyn
There are lots of good suggestions here, especially a symposium. Here in the UK No.w.here have BW processing, contact and optical printing facilities, and run regular courses, which are very hands-on in nature. Their activities have stimulated a new generation of young filmmakers to work with

Re: [Frameworks] Kodak Film Stocks to be Discontinued, Announced in December

2014-08-31 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Their website is wonderful. Beautiful factory. They claim they'll be manufacturing in all movie formats and 35mm slides etc, Nicky. -Original Message- From: Francisco Torres fjtorre...@gmail.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Sat, 30

Re: [Frameworks] Kodak Film Stocks to be Discontinued, Announced in December

2014-08-31 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Agfa only really want to supply in very large quantities, ie 105 4000' cans at a time, though they can be persuaded to sell fewer, IF you can contact them, which is not straighforward. ST8 has a slightly bluish base, but it's a nice stock, about 6asa, Nicky. -Original

Re: [Frameworks] Kodak Film Stocks to be Discontinued, Announced in December

2014-08-31 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Ilford are reportedly thinking of re-starting: they still have all the equipment to produce film. They made a range of beautiful BW negs, broadly superior to anything Kodak has produced. Nicky. -Original Message- From: Jean-Louis Seguin bolext...@gmail.com To: Experimental

Re: [Frameworks] Kodak Film Stocks to be Discontinued, Announced in December

2014-08-30 Thread nicky . hamlyn
When I was a student in the mid 1970s, Ferrania used to make a good colour reversal film and five bath processing kit. This was in the days, now mostly long gone, when people did things; knitting, sewing, repairing, developing etc. The colour was beautiful: soft and subtle, but hard to control

Re: [Frameworks] cat films

2014-08-19 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Beautiful film by a wonderful filmmaker. I'm guessing 'De Poes' means 'The Puss' ? Nicky. -Original Message- From: jembere janinejemb...@gmail.com To: frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 17:39 Subject: Re: [Frameworks] cat films very interesting topic! one

Re: [Frameworks] This week [August 16 - 24, 2014] in avant garde cinema

2014-08-18 Thread nicky . hamlyn
This listing arrives as a massive block of text: single spaced lines with around thirty words per line, rendering it so difficult to read that I sometimes can't be bothered. Any chance of returning to something like the previous format? Thanks, Nicky. -Original Message-

Re: [Frameworks] This week [August 16 - 24, 2014] in avant garde cinema

2014-08-18 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Webmail via Firefox. -Original Message- From: Pip Chodorov framewo...@re-voir.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 13:06 Subject: Re: [Frameworks] This week [August 16 - 24, 2014] in avant garde cinema Hi Nicky, That's

Re: [Frameworks] cat films

2014-08-16 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Bell Book and Candle, The Incredible Journey (Disney film abut three pets on a 200 mile journey. Includes a swimming siamese cat). Nicky. -Original Message- From: Benjamin Leon benj.l...@gmail.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Sat,

Re: [Frameworks] cat films

2014-08-16 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Nice titles for 'Jonesy', like the ones for Pierrot le Fou. There are also hundreds of episodes of Top Cat to consider! Nicky. -Original Message- From: Francisco Torres fjtorre...@gmail.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Sat, 16 Aug

Re: [Frameworks] 'oxide' E165

2014-08-11 Thread nicky . hamlyn
LUX and the BFI shop are good retailers to place your work with, Nicky. -Original Message- From: Ben Gwilliam i...@thosesoundsbetween.co.uk To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 12:10 Subject: [Frameworks] 'oxide' E165 Hi

Re: [Frameworks] films using the optical printer

2014-08-08 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Coming late to this. Has anyone mentioned Klaus Wyborny's films? Nicky. -Original Message- From: John Warren johnwar...@alum.calarts.edu To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 13:46 Subject: Re: [Frameworks] films using the

Re: [Frameworks] films using the optical printer

2014-08-07 Thread nicky . hamlyn
that´s correct. she used the lfmc Debrie machine that is still in use at No.w.here. Nicky. -Original Message- From: direc...@lift.on.ca To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 17:02 Subject: Re: [Frameworks] films using the optical

Re: [Frameworks] Did Kodak almost stop making all film?

2014-07-31 Thread nicky . hamlyn
I was told recently by a tele-cine operator at iDailies in London, which is digitising all the 35mm test rolls for the new Star Wars movie, that Kodak are continuing to make some stocks until at least 2017 as several studios want to go back to shooting on film. Nicky. -Original

Re: [Frameworks] Paris + London

2014-07-07 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Widescreen Centre in central London sells most of the available 16mm and Super 8 stocks. Not cheap though: https://www.widescreen-centre.co.uk/ Nicky. -Original Message- From: leandro listorti leandro.listo...@gmail.com To: frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com

Re: [Frameworks] shooting 16mm film in israel

2014-07-07 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Be prepared to be interrogated at length by customs officers on the exact nature of your project, on entering and leaving the country. Nicky. -Original Message- From: Irene Lusztig ir...@komsomolfilms.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com

Re: [Frameworks] Annette Michelson's collected essays

2014-06-25 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Some confusion between Annette Michelson and (Canadian novelist) Anne Michaels, Nicky. -Original Message- From: Anderwald + Grond cont...@anderwald-grond.at To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 20:58 Subject: Re:

Re: [Frameworks] Islands in experimental film and video

2014-06-23 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Neil Henderson's 'Tidal Island' is a study of an artificial island in the Wash in East Anglia. An earlier version is on the DVD Three Studies in Geography, available thorugh LUX, NIcky. -Original Message- From: chris bravo iamdir...@gmail.com To: Experimental Film Discussion

Re: [Frameworks] Islands in experimental film and video

2014-06-23 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Island Race is filmed on the Isle of Dogs, a bend in an old docks area of the River Thames in east London. It is technically an island as there are canals across the bend at its northern edge, Nicky. -Original Message- From: Fred Truniger fred.truni...@gmail.com To:

Re: [Frameworks] film undone series

2014-06-01 Thread nicky . hamlyn
David Larcher's videos are very discursive very open-ended: they don't conclude, on the contrary. Most of Morgan Fisher's films, especially ( ) and Projection instructions. Nicky. -Original Message- From: Joan Hawkins jchaw...@indiana.edu To: Experimental Film Discussion List

Re: [Frameworks] CBS goes Underground

2014-05-31 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Was it filmed in a lawyer's office? Willard van Dyke badly lets the side down by suggesting that 'there is the possibility that new techniques are being explored and that other filmmakers can benefit by these techniques'. The the whole film is redeemed by the glimpse of Brakhage's pipe!

Re: [Frameworks] New filmmaker

2014-05-22 Thread nicky . hamlyn
A few films without montage, or indeed any editing in the conventional sense: Lumiere films, All my Life, Serene Velocity, Sidewalk Shuttle, Wavelength, Central Region, Russian Ark,many films by James Benning, Malcolm LeGrice, Peter Gidal NIcky. -Original Message- From:

Re: [Frameworks] Looking for films about the radio and on air diffusion

2014-05-09 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Walter Ruttmann's Weekend (1930) is a sound scape collage which was made on 35mm film for Berlin Radio, and broadcast in July of that year, so a film if only in the material sense. Ken McMullen's film Ghost Dance (1983, and starring the late Pascale Ogier), has people listening to the BBC

Re: [Frameworks] 16mm colour prints from negs

2014-05-09 Thread nicky . hamlyn
None of these is doing prints, in fact most of them closed down. Try Prestech or Film and Photo, both in London, Nicky. -Original Message- From: Scott Dorsey klu...@panix.com To: frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Fri, 9 May 2014 13:55 Subject: Re: [Frameworks] 16mm colour

Re: [Frameworks] Infrared Film in Experimental Cinema

2014-05-01 Thread nicky . hamlyn
Kurt Kren: Tree Again, Nicky. -Original Message- From: Heath Iverson h...@st-andrews.ac.uk To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Thu, 1 May 2014 16:16 Subject: [Frameworks] Infrared Film in Experimental Cinema Hi Frameworkers, I've been

  1   2   >