[Frameworks] Tri X
Does anyone know whether it is still possible to make an inter negative from TRI x reversal? is the duplicating stock still being produced? Thanks, Shumona ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] Tri X
Yep! A number of labs do it, customarily using b/w dupe neg stock 3234. Colorlab and Cinema Arts in particular have a reputation for getting very nice looking prints from dupe negs off of b/w reversal originals, and I can vouch for that. Cinema Arts did some beautiful dupe negs/prints on three of Chick Strand's gorgeous b/w films and Colorlab did an excellent dupe neg/prints of Richard Myers' film Akran for us, among others. Mark On Jan 17, 2013, at 12:54 AM, Shumona Goel wrote: > Does anyone know whether it is still possible to make an inter negative from > TRI x reversal? is the duplicating stock still being produced? > > Thanks, > Shumona > ___ > 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
Re: [Frameworks] Rear Screen Projection Rotoscoping 16mm
> I just posted a short video of my op printer/roto set up. Hope it helps... > https://vimeo.com/57535369 Impressive setup Ken! Looks pretty functional and easy to use. And I think the best thing is that it looks like all the major components could be found with a bit of hunting on eBay and Craigslist. Inspiring stuff! ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] Rear Screen Projection Rotoscoping 16mm
Thanks John! Ha good eye there... entirely constructed from gear acquired on ebay and craigslist. bests, -Kenny On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 1:16 PM, John Woods wrote: > > > I just posted a short video of my op printer/roto set up. Hope it > helps... https://vimeo.com/57535369 > > Impressive setup Ken! Looks pretty functional and easy to use. And I think > the best thing is that it looks like all the major components could be > found with a bit of hunting on eBay and Craigslist. Inspiring stuff! > > ___ > 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
Re: [Frameworks] Articles/essays on the "loop" in film
I suppose you already know about the excellent recent article on the film/video loop by Ron Green in Millennium Film Journal No 55 (Spring 2012). http://www.mfj-online.org/issues/mfj-no-55-spring-2012/ Grahame Weinbren Senior Editor Millennium Film Journal http://mfj-online.org On Jan 16, 2013, at 3:27 PM, Jen Proctor wrote: > Thanks to all of you who responded on- and off-list to my query. I look > forward to following up on all these great leads! > > Much appreciated, > Jen > > > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Damon wrote: > Jen, > > It has been ages since I've seen a copy, but there was an exhibition catalog > about the loop in artist's films in 2001-2002. It had many short essays, > some focused upon the exhibited artists, and others on the loop as a concept, > but none really longer than 5 pages (however the catalog was in a Vogue-like > page layout so the 5 pages may be close to 10 pages if placed into a book). > Each of the editors contributed a text. > > Here is the bibliography reference I have for it (and some of the details): > > Biesenbach, Klaus , Jennifer Allen, and Daniel Birnbaum, eds. Loop : Alles > Auf Anfang. Munich: Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, 2001. > > chiefly coloured ill. ; 31 cm. Texts in German and English > Catalogue of an exhibition held at Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, > Munich, from Sept. 14 to Nov. 4, 2001 and at P.S.1/MoMA, New York, from Dec. > 9, 2001 to Jan. 27, 2002./ "Magazine 03/01, > Special issue"--Editorial./ "Loop - back to the beginning [is] an exhibition > featuring the diverse work of 20 international artists who explore a strategy > of repeated gesture, the loop."--Foreword./ Features the works of Canadian > artists Rodney Graham, Stan Douglas./ Includes bibliographical references. > Loop, back to the beginning.; Magazine 03/01. > > > > Boris Groys has also examined the loop as a formal structure, he curated an > exhibition at Apex Art in New York during the winter of 2008, there is still > a web page up with a link to the exhibition brochure: > http://www.apexart.org/exhibitions/groys.php > > I think the found-footage videos he produced in conjunction with the > exhibition were released by Hatje Cantz after the show moved to ZKM in > Karlsruhe, Germany : > http://www.hatjecantz.de/controller.php?cmd=detail&titzif=2337&lang=en > > > Sincerely, > Damon Stanek > > On Jan 12, 2013, at 5:01 PM, Jen Proctor wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> Can anyone point me to any good writing on the notion of the "loop" in >> cinema (that is, the repetition of a strip of film over and over)? Of >> course, one of the ways cinema got its start was in showcasing simple looped >> images, but I'm particularly interested in its role in avant-garde film, >> expanded cinema, video art, etc. Articles about repetition as a technique >> would be of interest too, though those are a bit easier to come by. >> >> Thanks! >> Jen >> >> ___ >> 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 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
[Frameworks] Fred Halsted's Rare and Classic L.A. PLAYS ITSELF screening Jan 26 and 27
White Light Cinema Presents Fred Halsted¹s L.A. PLAYS ITSELF 1970¹s Gay Experimental-Porn Classic in an Ultra-Rare Version New High Definition Transfer of the Complete Uncut Film! Two Screenings! Saturday, January 26 8:00pm At The Nightingale (1084 N. Milwaukee Ave.) Co-Presented by The Nightingale Sunday, January 27 7:00pm At Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.) Introduced Via Skype by William E. Jones Author of Halsted Plays Himself (see bio below) L.A. PLAYS ITSELF (1972, 51 min, New High Definition Transfer of 16mm) by Fred Halsted ³Fred Halsted clearly is the Ken Russell of S&M homoerotica.² (Variety) ³This film breaks all the stereotypes! I recommend it for all audiences.² (William S. Burroughs) ³New information for me² (Salvador Dali) White Light Cinema is pleased to begin its fifth year with a very rare presentation of a new high definition transfer of the complete and uncut version of Fred Halsted¹s famed and infamous 1972 gay porn film L.A. PLAYS ITSELF. Although a part of the permanent film collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, this rare version has never been released on home video and has been screened publicly less than half a dozen times in the past 30 years. The film was released at a rarified time in the history of x-rated cinema. Pornographic films had only been legal to screen publicly for a couple of years and both gay and straight variants had been looking to ³legitimize² themselves through consciousness artistic flourishes. Wakefield Poole¹s Boys in the Sand (1971) and Bijou (1972) led the way for gay adult films and Gerard Damiano¹s Deep Throat (1972) exemplified the short-lived ³porno chic² era in heterosexual porn that L.A. Plays Itself attempted to capitalize on, though Halsted¹s film was conceived of and in production well before any of them. Halsted hired a publicist for the film, held VIP advance screenings, and had remarkable success for a low-budget, gritty, and very graphic gay porn film. It was even screened at the Museum of Modern Art in 1974. Part of the success of the film, and part of its controversy, is Halsted¹s unflinching portrait of the leather and S&M scene in Los Angeles in the second half of the film. But, like the Poole films and the straight porno chic straight films of the time, the film also had artistic ambitions. The first half is a lyrical ode to lesser-seen sections of Halsted¹s beloved Los Angeles and the surrounding ³countryside,² which was rapidly disappearing to development. The film can be viewed almost as a city-symphony of sorts, a film of landscape and cityscape, a film heralding some changes and lamenting others. Throughout, it is also a film that plays with formexperimenting with structure, editing, and sound in particular. While Halsted was not a trained filmmaker and the film has a definite roughness, it is a roughness that amplifies its themes and content, that functions like a queer art brut rather than simply as poor craftsmanship. Hasted was too smart for that. He knew his limitations and worked with them. ³In 1972 Fred Halsted released--perhaps unleashed is more apt--his hardcore gay S&M porn film L.A. Plays Itself, a pioneering work of the genre and one that surprisingly crossed over to achieve some mainstream attention and acclaim for its aesthetic vision (it even screened at the Museum of Modern Art). While L.A. is still known and discussed among scholars and cinephiles, it is virtually impossible to see, apart from bootlegs of an out-of-print and incomplete VHS release. For most people, it resides in distant memory or speculative imagination.² (Patrick Friel, Afterimage) ³One of the only gay porn films acquired by the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection, Fred Halsted's L.A. PLAYS ITSELF marked a special moment in early gay liberation, arriving before the commercial porn industry eliminated traces of the avant-garde from its films. But make no mistake - the film is hardcore - featuring hot and heavy graphic S&M sex scenes. Halsted stars as a rough loner in a fast car, driving through Los Angeles stopping along the way to hook up with hot hustlers, rough trade and sexy studs. At one New York screening, Salvador Dali left the theater muttering new information for me.¹² (Outfest) ³Born in Long Beach in 1941 and raised all over the state of California, Fred Halsted rarely left his adopted city of Los Angeles. Capturing the city as few other films could, L.A. Plays Itself (1972), Halsted¹s first film, has come to be regarded as a classic within the genre of gay porn. Its images of beautiful young men in sylvan Malibu Canyon and boy hustlers on the mean streets of Hollywood gained for Halsted the kind of celebrity than simply isn¹t possible today. Fred Halsted never held a regular job; he didn¹t teach; he had no gallery representation; he had no agent; he didn¹t shoot commercials or advertising campaigns; he didn¹t even have a social security nu
Re: [Frameworks] Fred Halsted's Rare and Classic L.A. PLAYS ITSELF screening Jan 26 and 27
Whoops this was meant for a similarly named local list, otherwise I would have specified that this is in Chicago. Still, Chicago, Milwaukee, Iowa City, other nearby folks hope you can come! (Maybe I should say ³attend² in this case?). pf On 1/17/13 3:19 PM, "Patrick Friel" wrote: > > White Light Cinema Presents > > > Fred Halsted¹s L.A. PLAYS ITSELF > 1970¹s Gay Experimental-Porn Classic in an Ultra-Rare Version > > New High Definition Transfer of the Complete Uncut Film! > > > Two Screenings! > > Saturday, January 26 8:00pm > At The Nightingale (1084 N. Milwaukee Ave.) > Co-Presented by The Nightingale > > Sunday, January 27 7:00pm > At Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.) > Introduced Via Skype by William E. Jones Author of Halsted Plays Himself > (see bio below) > > > > L.A. PLAYS ITSELF (1972, 51 min, New High Definition Transfer of 16mm) by Fred > Halsted > > > ³Fred Halsted clearly is the Ken Russell of S&M homoerotica.² (Variety) > > ³This film breaks all the stereotypes! I recommend it for all audiences.² > (William S. Burroughs) > > ³New information for me² (Salvador Dali) > > > > > White Light Cinema is pleased to begin its fifth year with a very rare > presentation of a new high definition transfer of the complete and uncut > version of Fred Halsted¹s famed and infamous 1972 gay porn film L.A. PLAYS > ITSELF. Although a part of the permanent film collection at the Museum of > Modern Art in New York, this rare version has never been released on home > video and has been screened publicly less than half a dozen times in the past > 30 years. > > The film was released at a rarified time in the history of x-rated cinema. > Pornographic films had only been legal to screen publicly for a couple of > years and both gay and straight variants had been looking to ³legitimize² > themselves through consciousness artistic flourishes. Wakefield Poole¹s Boys > in the Sand (1971) and Bijou (1972) led the way for gay adult films and Gerard > Damiano¹s Deep Throat (1972) exemplified the short-lived ³porno chic² era in > heterosexual porn that L.A. Plays Itself attempted to capitalize on, though > Halsted¹s film was conceived of and in production well before any of them. > Halsted hired a publicist for the film, held VIP advance screenings, and had > remarkable success for a low-budget, gritty, and very graphic gay porn film. > It was even screened at the Museum of Modern Art in 1974. > > Part of the success of the film, and part of its controversy, is Halsted¹s > unflinching portrait of the leather and S&M scene in Los Angeles in the second > half of the film. But, like the Poole films and the straight porno chic > straight films of the time, the film also had artistic ambitions. The first > half is a lyrical ode to lesser-seen sections of Halsted¹s beloved Los Angeles > and the surrounding ³countryside,² which was rapidly disappearing to > development. The film can be viewed almost as a city-symphony of sorts, a film > of landscape and cityscape, a film heralding some changes and lamenting > others. Throughout, it is also a film that plays with formexperimenting with > structure, editing, and sound in particular. While Halsted was not a trained > filmmaker and the film has a definite roughness, it is a roughness that > amplifies its themes and content, that functions like a queer art brut rather > than simply as poor craftsmanship. Hasted was too smart for that. He knew his > limitations and worked with them. > > > > > > ³In 1972 Fred Halsted released--perhaps unleashed is more apt--his hardcore > gay S&M porn film L.A. Plays Itself, a pioneering work of the genre and one > that surprisingly crossed over to achieve some mainstream attention and > acclaim for its aesthetic vision (it even screened at the Museum of Modern > Art). While L.A. is still known and discussed among scholars and cinephiles, > it is virtually impossible to see, apart from bootlegs of an out-of-print and > incomplete VHS release. For most people, it resides in distant memory or > speculative imagination.² (Patrick Friel, Afterimage) > > > > ³One of the only gay porn films acquired by the Museum of Modern Art's > permanent collection, Fred Halsted's L.A. PLAYS ITSELF marked a special moment > in early gay liberation, arriving before the commercial porn industry > eliminated traces of the avant-garde from its films. But make no mistake - the > film is hardcore - featuring hot and heavy graphic S&M sex scenes. Halsted > stars as a rough loner in a fast car, driving through Los Angeles stopping > along the way to hook up with hot hustlers, rough trade and sexy studs. At one > New York screening, Salvador Dali left the theater muttering new information > for me.¹² (Outfest) > > > ³Born in Long Beach in 1941 and raised all over the state of California, Fred > Halsted rarely left his adopted city of Los Angeles. Capturing the city as few > other films could, L.A.
Re: [Frameworks] contemporary animation texts
Hi Stephanie! Being a CalArts grad, I'm sure you know Maureen Furniss' THE ANIMATION BIBLE and also her READER IN ANIMATION STUDIES. These are definitely go-to classics, and I rarely teach ananimation class without assigning texts from those books. Robert Russett, co-author of EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION with Cecile Starr, completed HYPERANIMATION: DIGITAL IMAGES AND VIRTUAL WORLDS in 2009. Chris Robinson, artistic director of the Ottawa International Animation Festival also has a few recent books:ANIMATORS UNEARTHED: A GUIDE TO THE BEST OF CONTEMPORARY ANIMATIONUNSUNG HEROES OF ANIMATION (co-written with Steve Reinke)JAPANESE ANIMATION: TIME OUT OF MINDESTONIAN ANIMATION: BETWEEN GENIUS AND ULTRA ILLITERACY Paul Wells, author of UNDERSTANDING ANIMATION, also put out another book fairly recently, RE-IMAGINING ANIMATION: THE CHANGING FACE OF THE MOVING IMAGE. You may also want to consider the catalogs from recent shows:WATCH ME MOVE (Barbican)STAN VANDERBEEK: THE CULTURE INTERCOM (MIT, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston)QUAY BROTHERS: ON DECIPHERING THE PHARMACIST'S PRESCRIPTION FOR LIP READING PUPPETS (MoMA) Here are a few neat books on individual animators written in the past ten years:PAUL SHARITS (Beauvais)OPTICAL POETRY: THE LIFE AND WORK OF OSKAR FISCHINGER (Moritz)THE CABINET OF JAN SVANKMAJER: THE PENDULUM, THE PIT, AND OTHER PECULIARITIES (Hartel, Blickle, Matte)ART THAT MOVES: THE WORK OF LEN LYE (Horrocks)(That said, FIGURES OF MOTION, an old collection of Lye's writings, is one of my favorite books of all time. It's out of print, but they have it at the CalArts library - maybe even at Pitzer, I'm not sure.) And, this isn't necessarily an animation-specific text... But, an article by Erika Balsom - "Brakhage's Sour Grapes, or Notes on Experimental Cinema in the Art World" - does a great jobsumming up many of the complications of experimental film/animation's straddling of the gallery and cinema worlds. If you clarify the focus of your class (production vs. studies or even certain artists you're interested in), I might be able to come up with more relevant texts for you. I would also bet real money that Marcin Gizycki, also on this list, has a huge bounty of suggestions. I hope this is helpful. Best,JMJodie MackAssistant Professor of AnimationDartmouth College ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
