I taught an introductory course in which I framed things under the terms "underground," "avant-garde," "studio-art video," "video as technology," "documentary," and a concluding section called "film culture" (histories of organizing, concluding with Cashmere's Incite issue devoted to exhibition).
1. For underground we get Amos Vogel and are allowed relatively populist clips. 2. For avant-garde we get Scott MacDonald and the classics of his early text, Avant-Garde Film (which is really useful to keep us in the history game, since there's that initial link in MacDonald to the split identified in Kracauer's Theory of Film, the "formative" and the "realist" tendencies). 3. For studio-art video we get Catherine Elwes, who can position body- and gender-oriented video nicely into a context with Paik. 4. For video as technology we get Yvonne Spielmann, who has a notion of "experimental" with respect to video that is about signals, not frames or even images. This is essential to talk about Steina. 5. For documentary we have a chapter from Renov and a chapter from Marks. Renov can get us Saddie Benning. 6. I found the "film culture" to be the most useful for introducting the Austrian work, like Kren's. Hans Scheugle's text in Tscherkassky's volume ensures that we have some context for the "expanded" of cinema art. Bernie On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Gene Youngblood <ato...@comcast.net> wrote: > Three is a severe limitation, but if you insist, one way to get at it is to > start not with films but with major traditions since mid-century and select > exemplary works within them. So for example abstract (Brakhage), minimalist > (Warhol, Wavelength), essayistic (Marker, Farocki, Forgacs). I include > Brakhage’s lens-captured films in the problematic “abstract." > > > > On Mar 27, 2015, at 11:43 AM, Donal OCeilleachair <donalo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Dear Frameworkers: > > I am working on a new film project with the Ealaíontóirí Mhuscraí > (that's Irish for the Muskerry Region Artists Group) > > Part of the project will involve film / video making workshops where I will > show > them works from experimental film, creative documentary and artists' moving > image works > as a point of reference and inspiration for their own initial explorations > into the realm of the moving image > > I am compiling a short-list of 'Essential' works to show them during these > workshops > and I would appreciate responses to the question: > 'What are the 3 Essential Films that you would show Artists > on their first foray into the Moving Image Realm ?' > > I look forward to hearing any suggestions > > Le míle buíochas (with many thanks) > -- > Dónal Ó'Céilleachair > www.anupictures.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
